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)
Second Sunday after the Resurrection
April 19, 2026
Welcome & Announcements
* Call to Worship............................................. Psalm 34:8-11
Leader: Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
* Hymn of Praise #301......... “Join All the Glorious Names”
* Prayer of Adoration
* Affirmation of Our Faith………………….The Canons of Dort, Point 5, Article 14
Leader: What do you believe of God’s use of means in perseverance?
All: And, just as it has pleased God to begin this work of grace in us by the proclamation of the gospel, so God preserves, continues, and completes this work by the hearing and reading of the gospel,1 by meditation on it,2 by its exhortations, threats, and promises,3 and also by the use of the sacraments.4
Hymn of Trust #334.......... “Breathe on Me, Breath of God”
Call to Confession............................................... Micah 7:7-9
Leader: But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
Corporate Prayer of Confession ........................... Micah 7:18
All: Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
Silent Prayers of Confession
* Assurance of God’s Grace................................. Micah 7:19
Leader: He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
* Congregational Response #528....... “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”
Sharing of Praises and Petitions
Prayer for the Church and the World
* Scripture Reading ....................................... 1 Peter 3:13-17
Sermon – Matt Marino........................... “A Double Defense”
The Big Idea: There are two demonstrations of the truth of our faith—rational persuasion and enduring persecution.
Prayer of Commitment
Table of Grace and Mercy
* Hymn of Praise #691................. “It Is Well with My Soul”
* Benediction
* Passing of the Peace: 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. Deut. 6:20-25; Acts 2:42; 1 Tim. 4:13
2. Josh. 1:8; Ps. 1:2; 37:31; 119:11
3. 2 Tim. 3:16-17
4. Luke 22:14-20; Acts 2:42; 1 Cor. 10:16-17; 11:23-26
Prayer Requests
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