Order of Worship
Welcome!
I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”
Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! (Psalm 122:1-2)
Transfiguration Sunday
March 1, 2026
Welcome & Announcements
Today we will witness the baptism of Oliver Allen Owen.
* Call to Worship............................................. Psalm 136:1-3
Leader: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever.
* Hymn of Praise #172 “Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder”
* Prayer of Adoration
* Affirmation of Our Faith………………..…The Canons of Dort, Point 5, Article 8
Leader: Christian, what do you believe of the certainty of this preservation?
All: “So it is not by their own merits or strength but by God’s undeserved mercy that they neither forfeit faith and grace totally nor remain in their downfalls to the end and are lost. With respect to themselves this not only easily could happen, but also undoubtedly would happen; but with respect to God it cannot possibly happen. God’s plan cannot be changed;1 God’s promise cannot fail; the calling according to God’s purpose cannot be revoked;2 the merit of Christ as well as his interceding and preserving cannot be nullified;3 and the sealing of the Holy Spirit can neither be invalidated nor wiped out.”4
Hymn of Trust #170............................. “Fairest Lord Jesus”
Call to Confession..................................... Leviticus 26:40-42
Leader: But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Corporate Prayer of Confession ...................... Psalm 123:3-4
All: Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt. Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.
Silent Prayers of Confession
* Assurance of God’s Grace.................................................................................. Romans 6:8-11
Leader: Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
* Congregational Response #432.. “We Give Thee But Thine Own”
Sharing of Praises and Petitions
Prayer for the Church and the World
* Scripture Reading ....................................... 1 Peter 2:18-21
Sermon – Matt Marino....... “Secondary Suffering Servants”
The Big Idea: Christian submission and suffering at work pleases God and copies Christ.
Prayer of Commitment
Table of Grace and Mercy
* Hymn of Praise #585 “Take My Life, and Let It Be”
* Benediction
Following the benediction, let us greet and welcome one another as Christ has welcomed us, for the glory of God (Romans 15:7), remembering what our Lord teaches us in the Scriptures: “Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God” (1 Peter 1:22–23)
( * - congregation stands)
Footnotes for the Affirmation of Our Faith
1. Ps. 32:6-7, 10; 33:11
2. Rom. 8:28, 30, 34; 9:11; Heb. 6:17
3. Luke 22:32
4. John 10:28; Rom. 8:34; Eph. 1:13
Prayer Requests
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