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April 23, 2023
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This Week's Events
 
  • Sunday, April 30th - Music Team Rehearsal
    Our Music Team will rehearse this morning at 8:30 a.m.
     
  • Sunday, April 30th - Prayer in the Church Office at 9:30 a.m.
     
  • Sunday, April 30th  - Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School
    We invite everyone to join us for our morning Worship Service. Mischa McCray and Anne Marie Owens 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 following our Congregational Meeting this morning. 
     
  • Sunday, April 30th  - Congregational Meeting
    The Session of Westminster is calling a Congregational Meeting immediately following this Sunday’s Worship Service. The purpose of this meeting will be to vote on calling Josh Reagan as our Associate Pastor.
     
  • Sunday, April 30th  - Deacon Meeting
     
  • Wednesday, May 3rd - 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. 
May Calendar
A Look At Last Week

Morning Worship

Welcoming newest Communing Member, Langdon Dyksterhouse.

Tuesdays at Turnrow

Please be in prayer for Shelby Gorman, manager of Turnrow Books, after a fire at the bookstore on Wednesday night.
Resources
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Happy Birthday
(April 28 - May 5)
4/28 - Hal Coleman
4/28 - John Craig Patterson
4/28 - Craig Rozier
4/29 - Miller Downing
4/30 - Eddie Ray
5/1 -   Beth Barger
5/3 -   James Shackelford
5/5 -   Brandon Pendegraft
Happy Anniversary
(April 28 - May 5)
4/30 - Brent & Danielle Morgan
Looking Ahead
Our next Book Club will be on Tuesday, May 16th at 6pm. We'll be discussing Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Please stay tuned for an announcement about the location.
Meeting Sunday, February 19th
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.
Prayer List
WPC Prayer Needs
  • Elizabeth Barth and family - Prayers as they mourn the death of her nephew, Wylie Coleman.
  • Shelby Gorman - Prayers after the fire at Turnrow Books this week.
  • Mike Barth 
  • Dylan Branson - Prayers as she is being treated for benign epilepsy.
  • Michelle Hodges 
  • Larry Myers and his family - Prayers for comfort after the death of his niece, Kim MacIntosh
  • 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
  • Stephen and Jessi Belk (Son and Daughter-in-Law of Darrell and Theresa Belk) - Prayers for a healthy pregnancy after previous complications
  • Dr. Mike Boler - Treatment for T-Cell Leukemia
  • 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
  • Turnrow Books, Turnrow Cafe, and Turnrow Art Co., their employees and families, after a fire caused damage to the store.
  • 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.
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Welcome and Announcements

Introit - “Glorious Grace”
God I need You; Every breath every pulse of my heart
Christ have mercy have mercy let mercy abound; I need You I need You now

God pour out Your grace glorious grace that I would be held by Your perfect embrace
I am undeserving You are high and worthy; all of my praise for this glorious grace

God I’m longing I’m longing to see You
In Your presence all darkness will fade
Shine Your glory Your glory let glory surround
I’m longing to see You now

God Your grace like rising seas has swallowed death and sin in me
Glory to my God who saves Jesus Christ my glorious grace

God I worship I worship I worship You
For Your glory my all in all You are worthy You’re worthy You’re worthy
I worship I worship You, God I need You I need You now

CCLI Song # 7022710 Aaron Ivey | Brett Land | Kyle Lent © 2014 Austin Stone Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) Bird & Minion Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) CCLI License # 2640266

‡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 No. 679 - “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” 
‘Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word;
Just to rest upon His promise; just to know, “Thus saith the Lord.”

Refrain
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him! How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er!
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! O for grace to trust Him more!

O how sweet to trust in Jesus, just to trust His cleansing blood;
Just in simple faith to plunge me ‘neath the healing, cleansing flood! (Refrain)

Yes, ‘tis sweet to trust in Jesus, just from sin and self to cease;
Just from Jesus simply taking life and rest, and joy and peace. (Refrain)

I’m so glad I learned to trust Thee, precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
And I know that Thou art with me, wilt be with me to the end. (Refrain)

‡The Prayer of Invocation 

The Sacrament of Baptism: 
Josephine Adele Hinckley, Daughter of Derek and Elizabeth Hinckley

‡The Hymn No. 189 – “Jesus Loves Me”
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so; 
Little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong.

Refrain
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! 
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.

Jesus loves me, He who died, heaven’s gates to open wide;
He will wash away my sin, let His little child come in. (Refrain)

Jesus loves me, He will stay close beside me all the way;
Thou hast bled and died for me, I will henceforth live for Thee. (Refrain)

The Old Testament Reading 
Genesis 3:1-13 --- Peyton Fandel 
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

‡The Hymn No. 44 – “How Great Thou Art”
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder 
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made, 
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, 
Thy pow’r thro’out the universe displayed.

[Refrain]
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee: 
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee: 
How great Thou art, how great Thou art! 

When thro’ the woods and forest glades I wander 
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees, 
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur, 
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze; [Refrain]

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, 
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in, 
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, 
He bled and died to take away my sin. [Refrain]

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation 
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart! 
Then I shall bow in humble adoration, 
And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art. [Refrain]

The New Testament Reading and Congregational Prayer:
2 Timothy 4:1-8 --- Lee Coleman
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

‡The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.  And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds.  God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; whom all things were made; who for us and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end.  And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets; and we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church; we acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.  Amen.

Offertory Prayer

‡The Hymn - “Oh The Deep Deep Love”
Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free;
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me;
Underneath me, all around me is the current of Your love;
Leading onward, leading homeward to Your glorious rest above.

(Chorus)
Oh, the deep, deep love; All I need and trust is the deep, deep love of Jesus.

Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore;
How He came to pay our ransom through the saving cross He bore;
How He watches o'er His loved ones, those He died to make His own;
How for them He's interceding, pleading now before the throne. (Chorus)

Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus, far surpassing all the rest;
It's an ocean full of blessing in the midst of ev'ry test;
Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus, mighty Savior precious friend;
You will bring us home to glory, where Your love will never end. (Chorus)

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Children dismissed for Little Worship at this time
(K4 – K5)

Reading of the Holy Scripture: Acts 20:17-38
Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. 18 And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, 19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; 20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 22 And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. 24 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 25 And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, 27 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. 28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. 29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. 32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. 34 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. 35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” 36 And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.37 And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, 38 being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

The Sermon – “Beware of Wolves!” - Josh Reagan

‡The Hymn – “Lamb of God”
O Lamb of God, all worlds obeyed Your will; from dark and void their being came.
O Lamb of God, Your glories echo still. Creation sings its Maker’s praise.
Eternal God, One with the Father, before all time You dwelt in love.
Eternal God, unlike all others, yet You descended unto us.

O Lamb of God, in filthy manger lay; in humble dress You entered earth.
O Lamb of God, Creator bows to save the needy ones, helpless from birth.
Incarnate Word, gift of the Father, to take our place and bear our sin.
Incarnate Word led to the slaughter, You conquered death and rose again.

O Lamb of God now reigning on the throne, the Judge of all, faithful and true.
O Lamb of God, You’ll make Your power known when all Your foes receive their due.
Victorious King, when history’s fading, You’ll call Your Bride to take her place.
Victorious King, Creation’s waiting for Your redeemed to see Your face.

CCI Song #7052986 | Music and words by Jason Hansen, Bob Kauflin, and David LaChance, Jr. © 2015 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI).

‡Benediction
‡Congregation standing

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