Service Program

“Glorious One”

Welcome

Call to Worship Colossians 3:1-4

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.

“Wonderful Maker”

“Build My Life”

Prayer of Invocation and Confession of Sin

Scripture Reading Genesis 1:27-31

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Confession of Faith Heidelberg Catechism Q 6

Q. Did God… create man… wicked and perverse?

A. No, on the contrary, God created man good and in His own image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness; that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness to praise and glorify Him.

“All People That on Earth Do Dwell” (#101)

Pastoral Prayer

“Behold Him”

Sermon: “Whatever is Honorable”, Dr. Mike Campbell

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

“This Is My Father’s World” (#143)

Benediction Romans 11: 33 & 36

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Gloria Patri

Philippians 4.8:

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Sermon Introduction:

“Whatever is honorable.”

Verse 9b: And the God of peace will be with you.

1. Directs Us

Denis Johnson: “The moral decay in Greco-Roman society in the first century was a sordid preview of the decline of the West in the twenty first century.”

Colossians 3:1-2: 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.

2. Defines Us

1 Timothy 3:4: with all dignity

Verse 8: Deacons likewise must be dignified

Verse 11: Their wives likewise must be dignified

Titus 2:2: Older men are to… dignified

Verse 3: Older women likewise are to be reverent

Verses 5 & 6: self-controlled

Verse 7: Show yourself in all respects to be a model of… dignity,

1 Timothy 2:2: that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life… dignified in every way.