07-12-2015 Sunday Evening Bulletin.pub

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The Lord’s Day Evening July 12, 2015 Six O’clock

Welcome and Announcements Prelude

Dear heavenly Father, for the welcome we receive as we come into your presence, we praise you; for the freedom to call you Abba, Father, we adore you; for the assurance of your daily mercies and steadfast love, we worship you. There is no other god like you—none more worthy to be loved with all our heart and soul, mind and strength. You know our weaknesses, and do not despise them. You know our brokenness, and will not shame us. You know our sorrows, and are filled with compassion. You know our foolishness, and promise more grace. With our eyes fixed on Jesus—the author and perfector of our faith, we ask you to forgive us. Forgive us for hurting people we love by our impatience and irritation, by our lack of listening and our un-kept promises. Forgive us for thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought, and thinking of others less compassionately than they deserve. Forgive us for giving more power to what others say about us in public, than what you say about us in heaven. Forgive us for being too busy to behold your beauty in your Word, meditate on your mercies in Christ, and hear you sing to us in the gospel.

freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Invocation Songbook 39 ................................................................ In Christ Alone Report on Hope For Hattiesburg Week Songbook 46 .............................................. Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken Prayer of Illumination Scripture Reading.............................................................. John 5:1-18 Sermon ........................................................................ Rev. Ben Shaw “Disrupting Our Rhythm” Songbook 68 .................................................. On Jordan’s Stormy Banks Benediction

Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on me. Our hope is built on nothing less, nothing more and nothing other, than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. We trust in his finished work, not in our vain promises. Amen

Postlude

Call to Worship ........................................................... Romans 8:19-25

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. (C. S. Lewis)

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the

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July 12, 2015 6:00 p.m. Presbyterian Church in America Hattiesburg, Mississippi