Gospel Liturgy from Sunday, March 15

Below you will find the Gospel Liturgy from Sunday’s worship gathering. Regardless of whether or not you were able to join us, we pray that this liturgy might be a blessing as you seek the Lord’s face in worship and devotion this week.


CALL TO WORSHIP

Corporate Reading

Praise the Lord! 

For it is good to sing praises to our God; 

for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. 

The Lord builds up Jerusalem; 

he gathers the outcasts of Israel. 

He heals the brokenhearted 

and binds up their wounds. 

He determines the number of the stars; 

he gives to all of them their names. 

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; 

his understanding is beyond measure. 

(Psalm 147:1–5)

ADORATION

Song

Jude Doxology

CONFESSION

Scripture Reading

Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; 

all day long an attacker oppresses me; 

my enemies trample on me all day long, 

for many attack me proudly. 

When I am afraid, 

I put my trust in you. 

In God, whose word I praise, 

in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. 

What can flesh do to me?

(Psalm 56:1–4)

Corporate Confession of Fears

Song

In the Shadow of the Glorious Cross

ASSURANCE

Scripture Reading

Romans 8:18–39

Song

He Will Hold Me Fast

THANKSGIVING

Corporate Reading

You have kept count of my tossings; 

put my tears in your bottle. 

Are they not in your book? 

Then my enemies will turn back 

in the day when I call. 

This I know, that God is for me. 

In God, whose word I praise, 

in the Lord, whose word I praise, 

in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.

What can man do to me? 

I must perform my vows to you, O God; 

I will render thank offerings to you. 

For you have delivered my soul from death, 

yes, my feet from falling, 

that I may walk before God 

in the light of life.

(Psalm 56:8–13)

SUPPLICATION

Pastoral Prayer

PROCLAMATION

Sermon

Our Refuge and Strength | Psalm 46

LORD’S SUPPER

Invitation

Thomas Watson: 

Is Christ’s blood shed? Here is comfort against death. 

A dying Saviour sweetens the pangs of death. Is thy Lord crucified? Be of good comfort, Christ by dying has overcome death. He has cut the lock of sin, where the strength of death lay. Christ has knocked out the teeth of this lion. He has pulled the thorn out of death, that it cannot prick a believer’s conscience. ... Christ has disarmed death, and taken away all its deadly weapons; so that, though it may strike, it cannot sting a believer. 

Christ has drawn the poison out of death, nay, has made death friendly. Christ has blunted the sting of death and broken its power, and now there comes about the abolition of sin and the passage to a better life. 

… 

What sweet comfort may we draw from the crucifixion of our Lord! His precious blood makes the pale face of death to be of a ruddy and beautiful complexion.

Institution

23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 

(1 Corinthians 11:23–26)

SONG OF RESPONSE

Song

Be Thou My Vision

COMMISSIONING

Pastoral Exhortation Based on Psalm 46