Sunday Celebration 01/15/2023
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. EVERY PRAISE
2. YOU SAY
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE:
ROMANS 7:4-6
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18
HEBREWS 6:1-3
SPECIAL MUSIC
PRAISE AND PRAYER
SPECIAL MUSIC
TODAY’S SERMON: “YOUR LIFE CUT IN HALF”
FINAL CHORUS: GOD OF ALL MY DAYS
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..
EVERY PRAISE
Every praise is to our God. Every word of worship with one accord
Every praise every praise is to our God. Sing hallelujah to our God
Glory hallelujah is due our God
Every praise every praise is to our God. (Repeat 2x)
Every praise is to our God. God my Savior, God my Healer,
God my Deliverer, Yes He is, yes He is (Repeat )
God my Savior, God my Healer, God my Deliverer
Yes He is, yes He is, Yes He is, yes He is
Every praise is to our God. Every word of worship with one accord
Every praise every praise (Repeat 7x)… Is to our God
YOU SAY
Verse: I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low? Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know
Chorus: You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing You say I am strong when I think I am weak And You say I am held when I am falling short And when I don’t belong, oh You say I am Yours
And I believe, oh I believe. What You say of me. I believe
Verse: The only thing that matters now is everything You think of me In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity, o-ooh (chorus)
Verse: Taking all I have and now I’m laying it at Your feet
You have every failure God, and You’ll have every victory, o-ooh (Chorus)
Oh I believe. Yes I believe. What You say of me. Oh I believe
GOD OF ALL MY DAYS
I came to You with my heart in pieces
And found you God with healing in your hands
I turned to You, put everything behind me
And found the God who makes all things new
I looked to You, drowning in my questions,
And found the God who holds all wisdom
And I trusted You and stepped out on the ocean
You caught my hand among the waves
Chorus: ‘Cause You’re the God of all my days, Each step I take You make a way.
And I will give You all my praise. My seasons change, You stay the same.
You’re the God of all my days (Pause)
I ran from You, and wandered in the shadows
And found a God who relentlessly pursues
I hid from You, haunted by my failure,
And found the God whose grace still covers me
I fell on You when I was at my weakest
And found the God, the lifter of my head
And I’ve worshiped You. And felt You right beside me
You’re the reason that I sing (chorus)
In my worry, God You are my stillness, In my searching, God You are my answers
In my blindness, God You are my vision, In my bondage, God You are my freedom
In my weakness, God You are my power, You’re the reason that I sing (chorus)
In my blindness, God You are my vision. In my bondage,
God You are my freedom… All my days
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE:
So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you.
When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life
down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to “marry” a
resurrection life and bear “offspring” of faith for God. For as long as
we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away
with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed
us in. And this made us all the more rebellious. In the end, all we had
to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths. But now that we’re no
longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under
all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we’re free to live a new
life in the freedom of God. ROMANS 7:4-6
So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away,
our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary
affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,
because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for
what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18
Let us leave behind the elementary teaching about Christ and go forward
to adult understanding. Let us not lay over and over again the foundation
truths—repentance from the deeds which led to death, believing in God,
baptism and laying-on of hands, belief in the life to come and the final
judgment. No, if God allows, let us go on. HEBREWS 6:1-3