friends,
THIS SUNDAY Samuel Farrugia will be leading us in worship.
SOMEONE ONCE SAID, “Jesus promised his disciples 3 things – that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.” The virtue among the four “cardinal virtues” that we’re going to look at today is courage (the others are temperance, justice and wisdom). If Jesus is our example of virtue, we have to ask: Did Jesus need courage? He was Jesus after all. He’s God, right? Of course, the crazy thing about Jesus – as the Gospels present him – is that he makes us rethink our idea of “God”. Paul told the Corinthians that both the power and the wisdom of God were revealed… as Jesus hung on the cross (cf. 1 Cor. 1:18-25). What kind of God is that!? So, all this to say that Yes, Jesus needed courage because he was indeed human; indeed, this is a rather disturbing thing – if Jesus was human and yet succeeded in being who he was, that means that it is within the realm of possibility that I, human that I am, can walk his path.
Order of Service
Prelude
Welcome
Call to Worship
Hymn 411: “Stand up and bless the Lord”
Prayer of Adoration
Prayer of Confession
Declaration of Grace
The Lord’s Prayer
Children’s Time
Hymn 782: “Isaiah the prophet has written of old”
Responsive Reading – Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16
Gloria Patri
1st Lesson – Jeremiah 1:4-8, 17-19 (en français BFC – English on the screen)
2nd Lesson – 2 Peter 1:3-8
Gospel Lesson – Matthew 10:16-31
Sermon: “Called to Courage”
Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed
Hymn 763: “To show by touch and word”
Offering and Offertory
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Hymn 732: “O day of peace that dimly shines”
Benediction
Go now in peace
Postlude