Sunday Celebration 09/11/2022
Affirmation of Faith, Affirmation Chorus, Song Lyrics, and Today’s Scriptures are listed after the order of worship below:
WELCOME & INVOCATION & AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
AFFIRMATION CHORUS: “IN THIS PLACE”
SING AND CELEBRATE:
1. INDESCRIBABLE
2. AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS
3. HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE:
JOHN 12-13
EPHESIANS 3:17-19
PHILLIPIANS 3:12-14
REMEMBERING 9/11 PRAYER AND SPECIAL MUSIC
UNIVERSAL PEACE PRAYER (All are invited to pray this prayer together)
We are standing in your presence to pray for peace and harmony. We pray for
a day when your love envelops the earth. A day when spirits that unite us are
stronger than the forces that divide us. A day when all people are one no
matter what color, race, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. Please grant
us compassion to care for all creations; love to keep us strong; and acceptance
to reduce hatred. Please guide our hearts through understanding, so we may
coexist in harmony, and universal peace may prevail upon the earth. Amen!
PRAISE AND PRAYER
SPECIAL MUSIC
TODAY’S SERMON: “THE LIVING BREATHING GOSPEL”
FINAL SONG CONGREGATION: “I WON’T GO BACK”
Our Affirmation of Faith
We believe in God the creator of us all, whose desire for
diversity is seen in the rainbow of humanity. With unrelenting
passion God Seeks to be in relationship with all of us.
We believe in Jesus the Christ, who is the embodiment of
God’s redeeming grace; And in the Holy Spirit through whom
that grace continues its restoring work.
We believe in the Church. It is the body of Christ on the earth
today. As ministers of this church, we are all called like Jesus,
to heal, to deliver, to teach, and to serve.
We believe that together we can change the world,
in our time and for all time Amen!
Affirmation Chorus: In This Place
In this place, There’s joy that I can’t explain
In this place, There’s healing for all my pain
There is love unlike I’ve ever known
Everybody here makes me feel at home
As we gather here, I know I’m not alone
I feel God’s presence, Moving in this place..
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
Every 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 every living thing how it should grow.
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow.
Who imagined the sun and gives source to it’s light,
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night.
None can fathom: (Chorus) You are amazing God… (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 are amazing God) Repeat( )
AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS
Verse 1: At the foot of the cross, Where grace and suffering meet
You have shown me Your love, Through the judgment You received
And You’ve won my heart, And You’ve won my heart (Now I can)
Chorus: Trade these ashes in for beauty, And wear forgiveness like a crown
Coming to kiss the feet of mercy, I lay every burden down, At the foot of the cross
Verse 2: At the foot of the cross, Where I am made complete
You have given me life, Through the debt you bore for me
And You’ve won my heart, And You’ve won my heart (Now I can) (Chorus 2x)
Bridge: And You’ve won my heart, And You’ve won my heart Now I can (Chorus 2x)
I lay every burden down, I lay every burden down. I lay every burden down,
At the foot of the cross. I’m laying every burden down, I’m laying every burden down
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
The splendor of the King, Clothed in majesty
Let all the earth rejoice, All the earth rejoice
He wraps himself in light, And darkness tries to hide
And trembles at his voice, And trembles at his voice.
CHORUS: How great is our God, SING with me
How great is our God, and all will see
How great, How great is our God
Age to age He stands, And time is in His Hands
Beginning and the End, Beginning and the End
The Godhead, Three in one, Father, Spirit, Son
The Lion and the Lamb, The Lion and the Lamb
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“I WON’T GO BACK”
I’ve been changed, healed, freed, delivered, I’ve found joy, peace, grace and favor
I’ve been changed, healed, freed, delivered, I’ve found joy, peace, grace and favor
BRIDGE Right now is the moment, today is the day, I’ve been changed, I’ve been
changed. I have waited for this moment to come, And I won’t let it pass me by
CHORUS I won’t go back, can’t go back to the way it used to be, before your
presence came and changed me. I won’t go back, can’t go back to the way it used
to be, before your presence came and changed me. All my shame, guilt, sins,
forgiven, No more chains, fear, my past is over. Repeat bridge then chorus (4x)
I won’t go back, can’t go back to the way it used to be, before your
presence came and changed me. I won’t go back, can’t go back to
the way it used to be, before your presence came and changed me
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t
handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will
take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is.” JOHN 12-13
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in
love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that
ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. EPHESIANS 3:17-19
Not that I have already grasped it all or have already become perfect, but I press
on if I may also take hold of that for which I was even taken hold of by Christ
Jesus. Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but
one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
PHILLIPIANS 3:12-14