Sunday, April 16th - Music Team Rehearsal Our Music Team will rehearse this morning at 8:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 16th - Prayer in the Church Office at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 16th - Sunday Morning Worship We invite everyone to join us for our morning Worship Service. Selena Nause and Betty Boyd 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, April 16th - Men's Gathering Men, join us at 6:30pm at the church on Puckett Ave for our final Men's Gathering. Food and soft drinks will be provided and we'll watch another episode of The Chosen.
Tuesday, April 18th - "Tuesdays at Turnrow" Women's Book Club Ladies, join us this Tuesday evening at Turnrow Books at 6pm as we discuss the book The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.
Wednesday, April 19th - 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 $15/family.
Larry Myers and his family in the death of his niece, Kim MacIntosh
Dylan Branson - Prayers as she is being treated for benign epilepsy.
Mike Barth
Michelle Hodges
Cyndi Savage - Prayer for stamina and healing after cancer treatment
Rebecca Seawright - healing from Shingles and it's complications
Gene & Jere Stansel
Friends of WPC Prayer Needs
Dr. Mike Boler - T-Cell Leukemia
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
Jan Champion (Widow of Bobo, friend of Johnny & Georgeanne Smith) - Prayers for Jan and her family as she battles 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
Sawyer Kimbriel - He has a rare lymphatic abnormality
Page Whites - Cancer treatment
Expecting Parents
Jarrett & Anna Mills (adopting)
Adron & Betsy Belk (due July 15, 2023)
Tyler & Gray Blocker (due September 30, 2023)
Shut-Ins
Betty Morgan (Indywood, Room 127)
Community Prayer Needs
Greenwood-Leflore Hospital - Their employees and families of their employees as they navigate the possibilities of continuing to serve our community.
Praise Psalm 145:14-19 The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
Introit - “The Cause Of Christ”
The only thing I want in life is to be known for loving Christ,
To build His church, to love His bride, and make His name known far and wide.
For this cause, I live, for this cause, I'd die.
I surrender all for the cause of Christ.
All I once held dear, I will leave behind;
For my joy is this, oh, the cause of Christ!
He is all my soul will prize, regardless of the joy or trial.
When agonizing questions rise, in Jesus, all my hope abides.
Jesus, my Jesus, for Your glory, for Your name.
Jesus, my Jesus, I will only sing Your praise.
It is not fame that I desire, nor stature in my brother's eye.
I pray it's said about my life that I lived more to build Your name than mine.
‡The Call to Worship — (From Psalm 91, 95, 96, and 126)
Leader: Those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Congregation: I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Leader: Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Congregation: Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
Leader: Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts! Congregation: For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Leader and Congregation: Worship the Lord, for he has done great things for us and we are filled with joy!
‡The Hymn – “Indescribable”
From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea, creation's revealing Your majesty.
From the colors of Fall to the fragrance of Spring, ev'ry creature unique in the song that it sings. All exclaiming:
(Chorus) Indescribable, uncontainable; You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name. You are amazing, God; all powerful, untamable; awestruck we fall to our knees As we humbly proclaim You are amazing God.
Who has told ev'ry lightning bolt where it should go, or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow? Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light, yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night? None can fathom:
(Chorus) Indescribable, uncontainable; You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name. You are amazing, God; incomparable, unchangeable; You see the depths of my heart And You love me the same, You are amazing God.
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same, You are amazing God.
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‡The Prayer of Invocation
The Old Testament Reading Psalm 103:1-14 --- Rob Joiner
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, 3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, 5 who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 6 The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 9 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. 10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. 13 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. 14 For he knows our frame;he remembers that we are dust.
‡The Hymn– “Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken” (RUF)
Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee.
Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be.
Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known.
Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own.
Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too.
Human hearts and looks deceive me; Thou art not, like them, untrue.
O while Thou dost smile upon me, God of wisdom, love, and might,
Foes may hate and friends disown me, show Thy face and all is bright.
Go, then, earthly fame and treasure, come disaster, scorn and pain.
In Thy service, pain is pleasure, with Thy favor, loss is gain.
I have called Thee Abba Father; I have stayed my heart on Thee.
Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me.
Haste thee on from grace to glory, armed by faith, and winged by prayer.
Heaven’s eternal days before thee, God’s own hand shall guide us there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission, soon shall pass thy pilgrim days,
Hope shall change to glad fruition, faith to sight, and prayer to praise.
The New Testament Reading and Congregational Prayer: 1 Peter 4:12-19 --- Trey O’Brien
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 17 For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 And “If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”19 Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
‡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;who with His precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without 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 untoHim.
Offertory Prayer
‡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.
Children dismissed for Little Worship at this time (K4 – K5)
Reading of the Holy Scripture: Luke 14:25-35
Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. 34 “Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? 35 It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
The Sermon – “Luke #63: The Cruciform Life” - Richard Owens
‡The Hymn – “Yet Not I, But Through Christ In Me”
What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer. There is no more for heaven now to give
He is my joy, my righteousness and freedom, My steadfast love my deep and boundless peace.
To this I hold: my hope is only Jesus. For my life is wholly bound to His.
Oh how strange and divine, I can sing: all is mine! Yet not I, but through Christ in me.
The night is dark, but I am not forsaken, for by my side the Saviour, He will stay.
I labour on in weakness and rejoicing, for in my need, His power is displayed.
To this I hold: my Shepherd will defend me. Through the deepest valley He will lead.
Oh the night has been won, and I shall overcome! Yet not I, but through Christ in me.
No fate I dread, I know I am forgiven, the future sure, the price, it has been paid.
For Jesus bled and suffered for my pardon, and He was raised to overthrow the grave.
To this I hold: my sin has been defeated. Jesus now, and ever, is my plea.
Oh the chains are released, I can sing: I am free! Yet not I, but through Christ in me.
With ev’ry breath I long to follow Jesus, for He has said that He will bring me home.
And day by day I know He will renew me until I stand with joy before the throne.
To this I hold: my hope is only Jesus. All the glory evermore to Him.
When the race is complete, still my lips shall repeat: Yet not I, but through Christ in me.
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