Psalm 122 - Homesick for God's House
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Song of Adoration
Song of Thanksgiving
Sermon
Song of Response
Closing Song
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Mark 14:32-42 - The Agony of Gethsemane
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Song of Adoration
Piano: Amalia Rimes; Vocals: Ashley Jacobson
Song of Thanksgiving
Piano: Amalia Rimes, Guitar: Noah Smith, Violin: Chloe Smith, Vocals: Anna Smith and Ashley Jacobson
Sermon
Song of Response
Closing Song
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True Community: Disagree Agreeably with One Another
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Song of Adoration (All Glory Be To Christ)
Song of Thanksgiving (Jesus Paid It All)
Sermon
Song of Response (When I Survey the Wondrous Cross)
Closing Song (Psalm 67:1-3)
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True Community: Live at Peace with One Another
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Song of Adoration (Behold Our God)
Piano: Angie Smith; Violin: Chloe Smith; Vocals: Anna Smith and Ashley Jacobson
Song of Thanksgiving (It Is Well With My Soul)
Sermon
Song of Response (The Church’s One Foundation)
Closing Song (All Creatures - Doxology)
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True Community: Use Your Gift to Serve One Another (Part 2)
Opening Scripture (Revelation 4)
At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.
And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!”
And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”
Song of Adoration (Holy, Holy, Holy)
Prayer of Adoration
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. Isaiah 40:25-31)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Holiness, Compassion, Eternality, Justice, etc.)
Call to Confession (Ephesians 4:1-6)
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit— just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God to search your heart and try your thoughts and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
Prayer of Confession
Our Heavenly Father,
You are one God in three persons, a diverse unity in whom there is neither division nor contention.
You call us also to be one body made up of many different members, with different gifts and abilities.
We confess that we often take pride in our own gifts and look down on those who lack them, while thinking little about our need for the gifts of others in the body.
We form factions and cliques that promote and support our own interests, desperately trying to attract the favor of those whom we think strong, while despising and shunning those whom we see as weak.
Father, forgive us.
Jesus, thank you for your willingness to allow your physical body to be broken to establish the unity of your spiritual body, the church. Thank you that in you we have a unity that transcends all earthly boundaries.
In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Assurance of Grace in Christ (Ephesians 2:12-16)
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Song of Thanksgiving (The Power of the Cross)
Message from God’s Word
Song of Response (O Great God)
Piano: Angie Smith, Violin: Chloe Smith, Vocals: Anna Smith and Ashley Jacobson
Confession of Faith (New City Catechism Q. 48)
What is the Church?
God chooses and preserves for himself a community
elected for eternal life
and united by faith,
who love, follow, learn from, and worship God together.
God sends out this community
to proclaim the gospel
and prefigure Christ’s kingdom
by the quality of their life together
and their love for one another.
Prayer for the Church and the World
Pray that God would give you clarity on your spiritual gifts and cultivate a servant’s heart in you for using your gift.
On this Mother’s Day, pray for the Mothers of our congregation that the Lord would continue to uphold them in their high and holy calling.
Pray for those in the body that have been dealing with health issues recently (e.g. Mike Sapusek, Peggy Bruce, Paul Baron, Dan Stewart)
Pray for the elders as we consider a wise approach to reopening the church.
Closing Song (Psalm 136:1-4)
Closing Prayer (Philippians 4:19-20)
May God richly supply every need of ours
according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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True Community: Use Your Gift to Serve One Another (Part 1)
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Opening Psalm (Psalm 96:1-10)
Oh sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord, all the earth!
Sing to the Lord, bless his name;
tell of his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples!
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
he is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
bring an offering, and come into his courts!
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;
tremble before him, all the earth!
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved;
he will judge the peoples with equity.”
Song of Adoration (Psalm 96:1-10)
Prayer of Adoration
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. 1 Chronicles 16:28-34)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Triunity, Self-Existence, Goodness, Omniscience, etc.)
Call to Confession (John 13:34-35, 15:12-13; 1 Peter 1:22, 4:8)
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God to search your heart and try your thoughts and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
Prayer of Confession
Our Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on us.
Although we have received your lavish love and unfailing forgiveness, we find it very hard to love each other well.
Our fallen nature draws us to an endless fascination with ourselves, and to a strong tendency to despise people who are different from us or don’t agree with us.
Instead of cultivating a love that covers sin, we rehearse the sins of those whom we dislike in an effort to justify ourselves and feel superior.
Father, forgive us, for we are broken and twisted lovers of ourselves.
Thank you for discarding our sins, for burying them in the deepest sea, for refusing to remember our sin and hold it against us.
In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Assurance of Grace in Christ (Micah 7:18-19)
Who is a God like you,
pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
He will again have compassion on us;
he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Song of Thanksgiving (Jerusalem (See Him in Jerusalem))
Thank you to Angie Smith and Anna Smith for recording this song.
Message from God’s Word
Song of Response (Oh How Good It Is)
Confession of Faith (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 55)
What do you understand by “the communion of saints”?
First, that believers, all and everyone,
as members of Christ
have communion with him
and share in all his treasures and gifts.
Second, that everyone is duty-bound
to use his gifts
readily and cheerfully
for the benefit and well-being
of the other members.
Prayer for the Church and the World
Pray that God would help you to not think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment.
Select another individual or family from the church body and pray for them.
Pray for the over 30,000,000 people who have lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus measures.
Closing Song (May the Grace of Christ Our Savior)
Closing Prayer (Ephesians 3:20-21)
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly
than all that we ask or think,
according to the power at work within us,
to him be glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
forever and ever. Amen.
SUPPORTING THE MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH
We would kindly ask, that despite our inability to gather, that you would maintain your financial support of Sand Harbor. We know that many of you give by providing a physical check when we take our offering during worship and so here are some alternatives that you can utilize:
You can mail a physical check to our P.O. Box:
Sand Harbor Presbyterian Church
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True Community: Exhort One Another
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Opening Psalm (Psalm 93)
The Lord reigns;
he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed;
he has put on strength as his belt.
Yes, the world is established;
it shall never be moved.
Your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.
Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than the waves of the sea,
the Lord on high is mighty!
Your decrees are very trustworthy;
holiness befits your house,
O Lord, forevermore.
Song of Adoration (O Father, You Are Sovereign)
Prayer of Adoration
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. e.g. Daniel 4:34-35)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Wrath, etc.)
Call to Confession (Ephesians 4:25-32)
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God to search your heart and try your thoughts and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
Prayer of Confession
Our Heavenly Father,
Much corrupt talk has come out of our mouths; and little of that which is good for building up and giving grace to those who hear.
If people will give account for every careless word they speak,
and if by our words we will be justified and by our words we will be condemned, woe to us!
For we are lost; for we are of unclean lips and dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
If you should mark the iniquities of our mouths, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
Set a guard over our mouths, O Lord, and keep watch over the door of our lips, so that we can have cleansed lips which declare Your praises.
In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Assurance of Grace in Christ (Romans 8:1-4)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Song of Thanksgiving (Let us Love and Sing and Wonder)
Reading of God’s Word (Hebrews 3:12-13; 1 Thessalonians 4:18, 5:11)
Message from God’s Word (Pastor Andrew Jacobson)
Song of Response (Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God)
Prayer for the Church and the World
Pray that God would give light to our political leaders and church leaders on the most wise path forward regarding opening up the state and meeting together again for worship.
Pick some families/individuals out the church photo directory and pray for them. Not sure what to pray about for them? Take one of Paul’s prayers for the churches and adapt them to that family or individual (e.g. Colossians 1:9-14, Ephesians 3:14-21)
Pray that God would equip you with humility and boldness as you seek to live out His command to exhort one another.
Pray that God would equip you with sympathy and compassion as you seek to live out His command encourage one another.
Closing Song (The Gospel Song)
Prayer of Blessing (1 Thessalonians 3:12-13)
May the Lord make us increase
and abound in love for one another and for all,
so that he may establish our hearts
blameless in holiness before our God and Father,
at the coming of our Lord Jesus. Amen.
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True Community: Love One Another
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Opening Psalm (Psalm 23)
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
Song of Adoration (Psalm 23)
Prayer of Adoration
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. Exodus 34:6-9)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Mercy, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Wrath, etc.)
Call to Confession (1 Corinthians 13:1-7)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God to search your heart and try your thoughts and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
Prayer of Confession
Our Heavenly Father,
We have been very guilty concerning our neighbor; for we have not pursued what makes for peace or for mutual upbuilding.
Contrary to the royal law of love, we have boasted and been arrogant, have been rude and insisted on our own way; we have been irritable, and have rejoiced at wrongdoing.
We have been conceited, provoking one another, envying one another, when we should have considered how to stir up one another to love and good works.
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me!
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart and the motives of my actions toward others,
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Assurance of Grace in Christ (Psalm 103:8-13)
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide,
nor will he keep his anger forever.
He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Song of Thanksgiving (How Deep the Father’s Love For Us)
Reading of God’s Word (John 13:34-35; 1 John 4:9-10)
John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 John 4:9 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. 10 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.
Message from God’s Word (Pastor Andrew Jacobson)
Song of Response (Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus)
Prayer for the Church and the World
Pray that God would guard your heart against anger at those you are being sequestered with, from grumbling at the circumstances, and from despair and anxiety at whatever the future may hold.
Pick some families/individuals out the church photo directory and pray for them. Not sure what to pray about for them? Take one of Paul’s prayers for the churches and adapt them to that family or individual (e.g. Colossians 1:9-14, Ephesians 3:14-21)
Pray for the Governor of the FL and the leaders of Palm Beach County that they would have the wisdom and insight for the decisions ahead of them.
Closing Song (The Church’s One Foundation - verse 1)
Prayer of Blessing (Numbers 6:24-26)
May Lord bless us and keep us;
May the Lord make his face to shine upon us
and be gracious to us;
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon us
and give us peace.
Amen.
Supporting the Ministry of the Church
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P.O. Box 3187 Tequesta, FL 33469
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Hebrews 2:14-18 - Delivered from the Fear of Death
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ORDER OF WORSHIP for RESURRECTION SUNDAY
OPENING PSALM (Psalm 16)
1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”
3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
4 The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips.
5 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.
6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
7 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.
8 I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.
10 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
11 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
SONG OF ADORATION (CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY)
PRAYER OF ADORATION
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. Philippians 2:5-11)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Sovereignty, Goodness, Justice, Faithfulness, etc.)
CALL TO CONFESSION (Colossians 3:1-5)
If then you have been raised with Christ,
seek the things that are above,
where Christ is,
seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things that are above,
not on things that are on earth.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ who is your life appears,
then you also will appear with him in glory
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:
sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire,
and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God 'to search your heart and try your thoughts' and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Our Heavenly Father,
You have brought us again to this glad season to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus,
whom You raised from the dead and crowned Lord of all.
We confess that we have been slow to believe,
and we have not joyfully acknowledged His rule over us as we ought.
We have set our minds on things here below
and failed to seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated.
Forgive us, O God, and renew us in the joy of Easter triumph
so that we would continually live as new creations in Christ.
Grant us by your resurrection power to live lives that honor You
and advance the mission of our resurrected King.
Through Christ, our Risen Lord, we pray, Amen.
ASSURANCE OF GRACE IN CHRIST (1 Peter 1:3-5)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
According to his great mercy,
he has caused us to be born again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading,
kept in heaven for you,
who by God's power are being guarded
through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
SONG OF THANKSGIVING (HE WILL HOLD ME FAST)
SCRIPTURE READING (Hebrews 2:14-18)
14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
SERMON (Delivered from the Fear of Death)
SONG OF RESPONSE (Before the Throne of God Above)
CONFESSION OF FAITH (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 45)
How does Christ’s resurrection benefit us?
First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he could make us share in the righteousness which he had obtained for us by his death.
Second, by his power we too are raised up to newness of life.
Third, Christ’s resurrection is a sure pledge of our glorious resurrection.
PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD
Pray that as Christ has been raised to new life, we would walk in newness of life, honoring our Risen King in all that we do.
Think of an area of your life in particular where you need grace to live as a new creation in Christ.
Pray that those who are without the hope of Christ’s victory over death would come to know Him who is the Resurrection and the Life.
Think of someone that you know personally and pray that they would come to know Christ.
Pray that all who are grieving the loss of a loved one would grieve as those who have hope and would look forward to the day when Christ makes all things new.
Think of someone in particular in your life (or even you personally) and pray this for them
DEPARTING SONG (Doxology)
