Call to Worship: From Psalm 118
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous!
Prayer of Adoration:
Song: “O Worship The King” – Hymn 2 v1,4,5
The Old Testament Lesson: Zechariah 9:9-12
Prayer of Confession: From Psalm 31
People: In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me! Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
Pastor: For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me.
People: Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Pastor: Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!
People: Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me!
Assurance of Pardon: From John 3:18
“Whoever believes in Him is not condemned.”
Song: “All Things New” – CCLI #5448157
Come Lord and tarry not; bring the long looked for day;
O why these years of waiting here, these ages of decay?
Come for thy saints still wait; daily ascends their sigh;
The Spirit and the Bride say “Come”, dost thou not hear the cry?
CHORUS:
O come and make all things new, come and make all things new
O come and make all things new, build up this ruined Earth,
Come and make all things new
Come for creation groans, impatient of thy stay
Worn out with these long years of ill, these ages of delay.
Come for love waxes cold, its steps are faint and slow;
Faith now is lost in unbelief, Hope’s lamp burns dim and low.
The New Testament Lesson and Prayer for the Church: Luke 19: 28-40. Crawford Dillon, Ruling Elder.
The Sermon: “The New Covenant, Part Two: Better Promises, Guaranteed!” Hebrews 8:6-13. Dr. Michael Calvert, Teaching Elder.
Confession of Faith: The Shorter Catechism, Q 85. Trinity Hymnal p. 875.
*Communion:
Song: “More Love to Thee, O Christ” – Hymn 649 v.1,2,4
The Benediction: From 2 Peter 3:18
May you grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen!