Ladies, be sure to pick up your FREE Devotional Book on contentment by Megan Hill. We plan to go through this at the same time beginning THIS MONDAY, January 16th.
Sunday, January 15th - Music Team Rehearsal Our Music Team will rehearse this morning at 8:30 a.m.
Sunday, January 15th - Prayer in the Church Office at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, January 15th - Morning Worship and Sunday School We invite everyone to join us for our Morning Worship Service. Stephen and Kim Pillow will lead Little Worship. If you are unable to attend the Service, please click here to watch our LiveStream. We will have Sunday School for all ages immediately following our Worship Service.
Sunday, January 15th - WIC Bible Study Kick-Off Gathering All women are invited to attend our Bible Study Kick-Off Gathering this Sunday at 4:00 p.m. at the home of Michelle Hodges (701 Nicholson Avenue). We will have a time of fellowship and an introduction of our Spring Study on the book of Philippians. Books are available for purchase in the Fellowship Hall or will also be available at the Kick-Off.
Monday, January 16th - Ladies to begin Contentment Daily Devotional Book Ladies, be sure to pickup your FREE copy of the daily devotional book Contentment by Megan Hill. Plan to start reading it on Monday. We will have a wrap-up discussion on February 19th at the home of Stacey Hall.
Tuesday, January 17th - Tuesdays at Turnrow Women's Book Club Ladies, join us this Tuesday evening at 6:00 at Turnrow Books for our Book Club. We will be discussing the book Joni: An Unforgettable Story by Joni Eareckson Tada. We hope to see you there!
Wednesday, January 18th - Mid-Week Studies Join us at 5:30 as we enjoy a meal together and then break into studies for different ages at 6:00. Our meal is $5/person or $10/family.
Thursday, January 19th - Morning Women's Bible Study Ladies, join us at 8:30am as we discuss the book of Philippians. This week we'll be discussing Philippians 1:1-11. A nursery will be available.
Thursday, January 19th - Noon Women's Bible Study Ladies, join us at noon as we discuss the book of Philippians. This week we'll be discussing Philippians 1:1-11. A nursery will be available.
North Greenwood Baptist Church is hosting the 2023 Night to Shine Prom on February 10th and is looking for volunteers! Night to Shine is an unforgettable prom night experience, centered on God’s love, for special needs people ages 14 and older. Volunteers must be 16 or older except for instances of pre-approval where a minor will be working with a parent. If interested, please click here to fill out the registration form.
We will be ordering a limited number of Westminster coffee mugs. If you would like to pre-order one (or several!), please email Kathryn Dyksterhouse.
Rebecca Seawright - healing from Shingles and it's complications
Mike Barth
Betsy Belk, Shelby Gorman, and their families - passing of their grandmother, Frances Duke Wesley
Mary Elizabeth Makamson and family - the passing of her father, Hubert Robertson
Cyndi Savage - Prayer for stamina and healing as she undergoes cancer treatment
Gene & Jere Stansel
Friends of WPC Prayer Needs
Stephen and Jessi Belk (Son and Daughter-in-Law of Darrell and Theresa Belk) - Prayers for a healthy pregnancy after previous complications
Christine Boye, friend of Derek & Elizabeth Hinckley - prayer for Christine and her family during treatment of metastatic breast cancer
Ben Downs, Son of John and Mary Nell Downs - Prayers for recovery from a stroke
Jenna Hoover, Niece of Betty Boyd - Prayers for healing and comfort as she battles renal cancer
Kevin Kendall - Prayers for encouragement, healing and guidance
Sarah Kimbriel (friend of Brady Warren) - Prayer that treatment can alleviate pain
Sawyer Kimbriel - He has a rare lymphatic abnormality
Page Whites - Cancer treatment
Expecting Parents
Jarrett & Anna Mills (adopting)
Hamilton & Erin McBride (due January 29, 2023)
Michael & Madeleine Sykes (due February, 2023)
Adron & Betsy Belk (due July 15, 2023)
Shut-Ins
Betty Morgan (Indywood, Room 127)
Praise 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Introit - “I Shall Not Want”
From the love of my own comfort, from the fear of having nothing,
From a life of worldly passions, deliver me, O God.
From the need to be understood, and from a need to be accepted,
From the fear of being lonely, deliver me, O God. Deliver me, O God.
And I shall not want, no, I shall not want. When I taste Your goodness, I shall not want.
When I taste Your goodness I shall not want.
From the fear of serving others, oh, and from the fear of death or trial,
And from the fear of humility, deliver me, O God. Yes, deliver me O God.
And I shall not want, no, I shall not want. When I taste Your goodness, I shall not want.
No, I shall not want, no, I shall not want, when I taste Your goodness, I shall not want.
‡The Call to Worship — (From Psalm 34)
Pastor:This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. Congregation: I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
Pastor: Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! Congregation: The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
Pastor:When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. Congregation: The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Pastor:Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Pastor and Congregation: Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!
‡The Hymn – “Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery”
Come, behold the wondrous myst’ry, in the dawning of the King.
He the theme of heaven’s praises, robed in frail humanity.
In our longing, in our darkness, now the light of life has come.
Look to Christ, who condescended, took on flesh to ransom us.
Come, behold the wondrous myst’ry, He the perfect Son of Man.
In His living, in His suff’ring, never trace, nor stain of sin.
See the true and better Adam, come to save the hell-bound man.
Christ, the great and sure fulfillment of the law, in Him we stand.
Come, behold the wondrous mystery, Christ the Lord upon the tree.
In the stead of ruined sinners hangs the Lamb in victory.
See the price of our redemption, see the Father’s plan unfold.
Bringing many sons to glory; grace unmeasured, love untold.
Come, behold the wondrous myst’ry, slain by death, the God of life.
But no grave could e’er restrain Him. Praise the Lord, He is alive!
What a foretaste of deliverance, how unwavering our hope.
Christ in power resurrected, as we will be when he comes.
The Old Testament Reading Psalm 39:1-7; Ecclesiastes 5:10-16 --- Rob Joiner
I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” 2 I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse. 3My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: 4 “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! 5 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah 6 Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather! 7 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-16a He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? 12 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep. 13 There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, 14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. 15 As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. 16 This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
‡The Hymn No. 585 – “Take My Life, and Let It Be”
Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my voice, and let me sing, always, only, for my King.
Take my lips, and let them be filled with messages from Thee,
Filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect, and use ev’ry pow’r as Thou shalt choose,
Ev’ry pow’r as Thou shalt choose.
Take my love; my Lord, I pour at Thy feet its treasure-store.
Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for Thee,
Ever, only, all for Thee.
The New Testament Reading and Congregational Prayer: Mark 10:17-27; 2 Corinthians 8:1-11 --- Mischa McCray 17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” 20 And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” 24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” 26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?” 27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
2 Corinthians 8:1-11 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, 2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 3 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, 4 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— 5 and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. 6 Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. 7 But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also. 8 I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. 10 And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. 11 So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.
‡Confession of Faith: (Heidelberg Catechism #1)
Pastor: What is your only comfort in life and death?
Congregation: That I, with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; whowith His precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me thatwithout the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation,wherefore by His Holy Spirit he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto Him.
Offertory Prayer
‡The Hymn – “Jesus Paid It All”
I hear the Savior say, "Your strength indeed is small.
Child of weakness, watch and pray, find in me your all in all.”
For nothing good have I whereby thy grace to claim.
I'll wash my garments white, in the blood of Calv'ry's lamb.
Refrain: Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
And when, before the throne, I stand in him complete,
"Jesus died my soul to save," my lips shall still repeat. (Refrain)
Oh, praise the One who paid my debt,
And raised this life up from the dead. (2x) (Refrain)
CCLI Song # 4689508
Children dismissed for Little Worship at this time (K4 – K5)
Reading of the Holy Scripture: Luke 12:13-21 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” 15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
The Sermon – “Luke #51: Dragon Sickness” --- Richard Owens
‡The Hymn No. 642 – “Be Thou My Vision”
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that thou art -
Thou my best thought, by day or by night, waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word; I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I thy true son; Thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.
Be thou my battle shield, sword for my fight; be thou my dignity, thou my delight,
Thou my soul's shelter, thou my high tow'r; raise thou me heav'n-ward, O Pow'r of my pow'r.
Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise, thou mine inheritance, now and always:
Thou and thou only, first in my heart, High King of Heaven, my treasure thou art.
High King of heaven, my victory won, may I reach heaven's joys, O bright heav'n's Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
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