WELCOME AND CONCERNS OF THE CONGREGATION

PRELUDE          “Prelude in Classic Style”              Gordon Young                                                                            

*CALL TO WORSHIP – from Psalm 86

Leader:  Teach us Your ways, O Lord, 

that we may walk in Your truth; 

People: give us undivided hearts to revere Your name.

Leader:  We give thanks to You, O Lord our God, 

and we will glorify Your name forever.

People:  For Your love is great towards us;

Leader: You are merciful and gracious, slow to anger

People: and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

*PRAYER OF THE DAY

*HYMN 611          Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee  

PRAYER OF CONFESSION                                 

Forgive my sins, O Lord, the sins of my soul and the sins of my body, the sins I have done to please myself and the sins I have done to please others. Forgive me those sins which I know and those sins which I know not. Forgive them, O Lord. Forgive them all, of Thy great mercy… 

Silent Prayers of confession

WORDS OF ASSURANCE from Romans 6: 4b,11

Jesus died and rose again so that we might experience “newness of life so we can consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Jesus Christ.” All you who repent of your sin and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation, rejoice and be glad and give glory to the Lord, who has taken away all of your sins, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Thanks be to God!

*GLORIA PATRI     “Glory Be to the Father”      #581

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end. Amen, amen.

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Jeremiah 20:7-13; Romans 6:1b-11      

SERMON          “New Life”                      Rev. Barrett Ingram 

*HYMN 418          Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling  

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH        The Apostles’ Creed           Page 35 

     I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic* Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.  

PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER 

OFFERTORY       “Beneath the Cross of Jesus”        Dale Wood     

RECEIVING OF GOD’S TITHES AND OFFERINGS

*DOXOLOGY – Hymn 606 

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Amen.

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN 462          I Love to Tell the Story 

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE