WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
SCRIPTURE READING
PSALM 89:8–9, 13–14
O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you? You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
ADORATION
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
CONFESSION
CORPORATE PRAYER
Merciful Lord, we confess that with us there is an abundance of sin, but in You there is the abundance of mercy. We are spiritually poor, but You are rich and in Jesus Christ came to be merciful to the poor. Strengthen our faith in You.
We are empty vessels that need to be filled; fill us. We are weak in faith; strengthen us. We are lacking in good works that result from faith; compel us. We are cold in love; warm us, that our love may go out to one another and to our neighbors. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FATHER YOU ARE ALL WE NEED
ASSURANCE
CALL AND RESPONSE
LEADER:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
TOGETHER:
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(1 John 4:7–10)
THANKSGIVING
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
SCRIPTURE READING
ISAIAH 1:10–20
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
“When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts?
Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”