Sunday, March 12, 2023

Prelude

Welcome & News of the Church

Call to Worship

Opening Hymn - (#12) "O Day of Rest and Gladness"

Praise Songs

Confession, Assurance, and Gloria Patri

Choral Anthem

Sermon - "Because of Her Testimony" (John 4:5–42) - by Rev. Jason Griffice

Hymn of Response - (#40) "The Lord's My Shepherd"

Moment of Thanksgiving

Offertory

Prayer over the Offering

Doxology

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn - (#376) "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken"

Benediction

Postlude

O Day of Rest and Gladness

O day of rest and gladness, 

O day of joy and light, 

O balm of care and sadness, 

Most beautiful, most bright: 

On thee the high and lowly, 

Thorough ages joined in tune, 

Sing "Holy, holy, holy," 

To the great God Triune. 

On thee, at the creation, 

The light first had its birth; 

On thee, for our salvation, 

Christ rose from depths of earth; 

On thee our Lord victorious 

The Spirit sent from heaven; 

And thus on thee most glorious 

A triple light was given. 

Today on weary nations 

The heavenly manna falls; 

To holy convocations 

The silver trumpet calls. 

Where gospel light is glowing 

With pure and radiant beams, 

And living water flowing 

With soul-refreshing streams. 

New graces ever gaining 

From this our day of rest, 

We reach the rest remaining 

To spirits of the blest; 

To Holy Ghost be praises, 

To Father and to Son; 

The Church her voice upraises 

To Thee, blest Three in One. 

Amen. 

The Lord's My Shepherd

The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want; 

He makes me down to lie 

In pastures green; He leadeth me 

The quiet waters by. 

My soul He doth restore again, 

And me to walk doth make 

Within the paths of righteousness, 

E'en for His own name's sake. 

Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, 

Yet will I fear no ill, 

For Thou art with me, and Thy rod 

And staff me comfort still. 

My table Thou hast furnished 

In presence of my foes; 

My head Thou dost with oil anoint, 

And my cup overflows. 

Goodness and mercy all my life 

Shall surely follow me, 

And in God's house forever more 

My dwelling place shall be. 

Amen. 

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Glorious things of thee are spoken, 

Zion, city of our God; 

He whose word cannot be broken

Formed thee for His own abode. 

On the Rock of Ages founded, 

What can shake thy sure repose? 

With salvation's walls surrounded, 

Thou mayest smile at all thy foes. 

See the streams of living waters, 

Wpringing from eeternal Love, 

Well supply thy sons and daughters, 

And all fear of want remove. 

Who can faint while such a river

Ever flows their thirst to assuage? 

Grace which, like the Lord, the Giver, 

Never fails from age to age!

Round each habitation hovering, 

See the cloud and fire appear

For a glory and a covering, 

Showing that the Lord is near!

Thus deriving from their banner

Light by night and shade by day, 

Safe they feed upon the manna

Which He gives them when they pray. 

Amen.

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