John 5:1-18

Links to the scriptures and hymns used during this service are provided below.  Click on the hymn title to be taken to a page with sheet music.

Order of Service

Call to Worship: Psalm 47:1-9

Hymn: Rejoice, the Lord Is King

Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Forgiveness:

Father in heaven, we thank you for the freedom you have given us through the life, death, and resurrection of your Son. But we confess today that we often live like slaves. Instead of living as though you delight in us, we avoid you in shame and guilt. Instead of receiving your favor as a gift, we try to earn it with our efforts. Instead of accepting your freedom, we prefer our chains. Instead of pursuing your purposes, we cling to our short-sighted agendas. Forgive us. Embrace us. Cleanse us. Heal us. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.  

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Scripture Readings:

Isaiah 35:1-10

Hebrews 1:1-3

Affirmation of Faith: from the Heidelberg Catechism

Question 27:  What do you understand by the providence of God?

God's providence is his almighty and ever present power, whereby, as with his hand, he still upholds heaven and earth and all creatures, and so governs them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, food and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, indeed, all things, come to us not by chance but by his fatherly hand. 

Question 28:  What does it benefit us to know that God has created all things and still upholds them by his providence?

We can be patient in adversity, thankful in prosperity, and with a view to the future we can have a firm confidence in our faithful God and Father that no creature shall separate us from his love; for all creatures are so completely in his hand that without his will they cannot so much as move.

Hymn: Speak, O Lord

Sermon: John 5:1-18

Closing Hymn: Doxology