1 John 2:28-29

Gathering Around the Word
 
Prelude:       
Announcements:
 
CALL TO WORSHIP:
What confidence do we have on our own?
    None. All our works, all our deeds, as good as they may
    seem to us are as dirty rags before a perfect God.
If the record of our deeds leaves us nothing but ashamed, what hope is there?
Our hope is in Jesus.  Our confidence is in Jesus. When   He returns we will not be ashamed but will stand upon what He has accomplished.
Come and worship our God today!  Remember what He has done and remember all that is ours because of Him.
 
INVOCATION

*HYMN:   “Rejoice, the Lord is King”                 # 363  
 
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION:
Father, You call us to obedience and to turn from sin.  We know that when we are born again we are meant to have reborn desires and actions.  We know that to love You ought to mean that we     love Your ways and Your commands.  To love the people made in Your image.  However, we fall short of this every day.  Your Spirit works to change our hearts, but we try so hard to harden them again.  Have mercy on us and forgive us.  We know that we have sinned, and we know that we will again.  Yet we trust that You are still working in us, sanctifying us, and making us holy like You are holy.  Help us to not hold onto the guilt that sin produces but to cling to the grace we find in Jesus.    AMEN
    
*Time of Silent Prayer:
 
            *Assurance of Pardon
             *Response – Gloria Patri     # 581
  Passing of the peace
 
  Children’s Chat
              Prayer of illumination
 
              Scripture Reading: Isaiah 64:  4-12  Debbie Mary
  Sermon text:  1 John 2:  28-29
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*HYMN  “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”   # 65                 
​ *Apostles Creed  (next to Prayer List)
                       
             Presentation of tithes and offering
             Offertory
           *Doxology
            *Prayer of dedication
 
             Concerns and Celebrations
             The Lord’s Prayer
 
            *HYMN   “Shall We Gather at the River”         # 375     
             Benediction
 Postlude

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BIRTHDAYS:
           February       None this week
 
ANNIVERSARIES:
            February 12  John & Lois Miller
                           13  Frank & Nellie Baker
                           14  Dana & Billie Wilson
        
SYMPATHIES:
            For the Family of Vince Knotts,
              Neighbor of Janet Rhodes.
          For the Family of Dennis Guthrie
               Friend of Barb O’Hara
                       
Remember our food collection.  And Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.”     Please let Betty Fisher know of anyone within the community that may be in need at this time.
 
Session meeting this Monday night at 7p.m.
 
Missionary meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 20th at 9:30 a.m.
 
Women on Wednesday will be meeting on February 14th at 9:30 a.m.
 
Sunday the 18th will be Communion Sunday.
 
We are hosting the Lenten service on February 25th at 4p.m. There will be refreshments in the social hall after the service.
 
Just a reminder that church services will be back to 11:15 starting March 3rd.

Continuing Prayer List
Chuck Dicks, Frank Huffman,Tom Westfall, Sandy Stone, Sarah Wilson, Carl Weber, Ricci Amos, Fred Wilkinson, Haley Diedier Bedillion, Judy Donaldson, Donna West, Helen Provenzano, Doug Ward, Marlene McFeely, Marley Smith, Suzy Smith, Carol Pierce, Chuck Harton, Frank Baker, Holly Liggitt (6 yrs. old), granddaughter of Debbie Durila, Johnny Yurko, Mike Durila, Betty Fisher, Seth Cummings, Beckett, Grandson of Scott Shetter, Kayla Horner, Step Granddaughter of Cheryl Bell