Bulletin 9.7.25
"Our help is in the name of the LORD, Who made heaven and earth." Psalm 124:8
Reflection Before The Service
Reflection Before The Service
Let's write a story of, a title wave
We run out of luck, we run out of days
We run out of gas, hundred miles away
From a station
There's a war and a plague yeah, smoke and disaster
Lions in the coliseum, screams of a laughter
Motherless children, a witness and a Bible
Nothing but rain ahead and no chance for our survival
Just before the flood comes, just before the night falls
Just before the blood runs into the valley
Just before my eyes go, just before we can't go no further
Love throws a line to you and me
– Patty Griffin, “Love Throw a Line”, Track 1
from the 2004 album, Impossible Dream
We are aging soldiers in an ancient war
Seeking out some half-remembered shore
We drink our fill and still we thirst for more
Asking, “If there’s no heaven, what is this we’re thirsting for?”
– Emmylou Harris, “The Pearl”, Track 1
from the 2000 album, Red Dirt Girl
A church full of love, is a church well built up. I had rather see a church filled with love a thousand times, than filled with the best, the highest, and most glorious gifts and parts that any men in this world may be made partakers of...I know the end of all Christ’s institutions is to increase love.
– John Owen, Gospel Charity, a sermon on
Colossians 3.14 delivered on June 6, 1673
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
The One-Hundred Twenty-Fourth Psalm
"Had it not been the LORD who was on our side”,
Let Israel now say,
"Had it not been the LORD who was on our side
When men rose up against us,
Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;
Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The stream would have swept over our soul;
Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul."
Blessed be the LORD,
Who has not given us to be torn by their teeth.
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.
(Prayer)
Reflection Before The Service
Let's write a story of, a title wave
We run out of luck, we run out of days
We run out of gas, hundred miles away
From a station
There's a war and a plague yeah, smoke and disaster
Lions in the coliseum, screams of a laughter
Motherless children, a witness and a Bible
Nothing but rain ahead and no chance for our survival
Just before the flood comes, just before the night falls
Just before the blood runs into the valley
Just before my eyes go, just before we can't go no further
Love throws a line to you and me
– Patty Griffin, “Love Throw a Line”, Track 1
from the 2004 album, Impossible Dream
We are aging soldiers in an ancient war
Seeking out some half-remembered shore
We drink our fill and still we thirst for more
Asking, “If there’s no heaven, what is this we’re thirsting for?”
– Emmylou Harris, “The Pearl”, Track 1
from the 2000 album, Red Dirt Girl
A church full of love, is a church well built up. I had rather see a church filled with love a thousand times, than filled with the best, the highest, and most glorious gifts and parts that any men in this world may be made partakers of...I know the end of all Christ’s institutions is to increase love.
– John Owen, Gospel Charity, a sermon on
Colossians 3.14 delivered on June 6, 1673
The Call To Worship
The One-Hundred Twenty-Fourth Psalm
"Had it not been the LORD who was on our side”,
Let Israel now say,
"Had it not been the LORD who was on our side
When men rose up against us,
Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;
Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The stream would have swept over our soul;
Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul."
Blessed be the LORD,
Who has not given us to be torn by their teeth.
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.
(Prayer)
07/09/25