Worship Next Sunday
June
24, 2012
Preaching:
Pastor Stephen Magee
Sermon
text: Acts 13:42-52
Sermon
title: A
king's favor is like dew on the grass
Music:
Opening
Hymn 117 The Spacious Firmament on High
Preparation
Hymn 247 O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Response
Hymn 347 The Church's One Foundation
Closing
Hymn 621 Sometimes a Light Surprises
Confession
of Faith: Apostles Creed
Old
Testament Passage: Proverbs
19:12
Preparation
Guide
Sunday:
Review morning sermon
(evening service @ 5pm)
Monday:
Acts 13:42-52
Tuesday:
2 Kings 13:1-13
Wednesday:
2 Kings 12:14-25
Thursday:
Proverbs 19:12
Friday:
Luke 9:23-26
Saturday:
Acts
13
Suggested Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages
that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
2
Kings 13
Great Lord,
trouble has come upon Your people. Evil leaders turn them over to
the hand of their enemies. These foes would lead us into false
worship. We seem to have no strength left in us. We want to come
back to the way of faithfulness, but we do not remember the path of
righteousness any more. We fill our hearts with foolish things, and
lose sense of the great battle before us. Grant to us a fresh sense
of the victory that we have through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Look upon us in our weariness and grant us new strength by the power
of Your Spirit. You have not forgotten Your promises to our
forefathers in the faith. Help us to remember You, that we might
obey Your precepts.
Proverbs 19
Our
Father, grant us integrity and knowledge more than raw intelligence
and wit. Grant to us a true generosity of heart that comes by Your
grace. Make us to be people of good sense who know the glory of
overlooking an offense. Grant us peace within our homes, and
diligence throughout our lives. Your Son has come from a heavenly
home of perfect integrity, and has given us the incomparable gift of
a most wise and generous salvation. Thank You for the blessings of
life that have come from Your hand. Even now You speak to us from
Your Word, and You give us instruction and knowledge.
Acts 13
Father
God, we thank You for the preachers and teachers that You have given
to Your church. We pray that You will lead them to the precise
places that You have for them to go, that they might serve You in
fruitful work according to Your plan. Help these men to be
forthright in their speech, for men-pleasers will not be helpful to
the progress of the truth. Help these servants to see this life
in a right way, so that they will not fall into the many temptations
that so easily ensnare those who are called to be servants of the
Word. Grant that these preachers and teachers would have an
accurate understanding of the Old and New Testaments. May they
be in the Word day by day in ways that are helpful for their own
souls, and for the understanding of those who will hear them. Help
them to see Christ, His atoning work, and His glorious resurrection
as the very center of Your living Word. What a joy it is to see
Your Son as the surprising fulfillment of the Word given to Your
people even under the period of the Law! We have been freed
from sin by the message and power of Christ. We pray that the
true and bold ministry of Your Word would be powerful in our day.
How can this happen if the men that You call as Your servants are
trapped by worldliness and idolatry? Sanctify Your church,
including her ministers, and grant all of Your assemblies a strong
hope of eternal life and the fullness of joy even now through the
Holy Spirit.
