Dear friends,
THIS SUNDAY the Rev. Linda Faith Chalk will be leading us in worship.
OUR SERMON TITLE FOR SUNDAY is “Claiming your Spiritual Inheritance”. By persistence this is what Elisha was aiming for. He had heard that God was calling Elijah home and he wanted to know with certainty that he was to inherit the prophetic mantle. What are our spiritual desires? Are we attuned to them? Or do we hope that it will all work out? After all God is in control. As we turn to the gospel, it doesn’t work out, Jesus is turned away because he is facing the wrong direction according to those who reject him. He knew that his spiritual inheritance was the cross and that was the direction in which he was facing. We do not always understand how God is working in our lives but scripture tells us that he is at work and that we are his workmanship.
Order of Service
Prelude
Welcome
Call to Worship
Hymn 436: “God, we praise you for the morning”
Prayer of Adoration
Prayer of Confession
Declaration of Grace
The Lord’s Prayer
Hymn 324: “Great is thy faithfulness” (vs 2 en français)
Responsive Reading Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20
Gloria Patri
2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 (en français BFC, English on the screen)
Luke 9:51-62
Sermon: “Claiming our spiritual inheritance”
Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed
Hymn 635: “Brother, sister, let me serve you”
Offering and Offertory
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Hymn 634: “Will you come and follow me?”
Benediction
Go now in peace
Postlude