Worship
Next Sunday
October
21, 2012
Preaching:
Pastor Stephen Magee
Sermon
Text: Acts 17:1-9
Sermon
Title: These
Men Turned the World Upside Down
Music:
Opening
Hymn: 9 All You That Fear Jehovah's Name
Preparation
Hymn: 377 Jesus, Were'er Your People Meet
Response
Hymn: 520 Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness
Closing
Hymn: 461 Not What My Hands Have Done
Confession
of Faith: Apostles Creed
Old
Testament Passage: Exodus
7:1-13
Preparation
Guide
Sunday:
Exodus 3, Acts 16:16-40
Monday:
1 Samuel 22, Acts 17:1-9
Tuesday:
1 Samuel 23
Wednesday:
1 Samuel 24
Thursday:
Exodus 4
Friday:
Exodus 5
Saturday: Exodus 6, Acts
17
Suggested
Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages
that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
Exodus
7
Lord Almighty,
Your suffering people face great difficulties from the powers of this
world. Defend Your children in the day of danger. Hear the bold
challenges that Your enemies speak against You, and meet us now with
power from heaven. We must obey Your word. We must worship You even
when strong men would prohibit our devotion to You. Your ways are
good and right. Thank you for the powerful blood of Your Son. Our
atonement is not through the secret art of magicians, but through the
death of Jesus Christ for sinners.
Acts 17
Lord
God, Your message came first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles,
yet Your truth is the same for all the people groups of the world,
that Jesus is the Christ. Thank You for the grace of Your presence
in trying times. Grant Your servants encouragement in all kinds of
ministry situations. Teach them to do Your work with love and
perseverance, trusting You in all times and places. The message of
the truth may seem to be a foreign religious system to those who have
never heard it. How are our ministers to know how to speak and what
they are to say? Lead them in their teaching so that they can
present the wonder of Your being and the grandeur and glory of Your
works. Show them engaging truths all around them that will help in
explaining the beauty of the gospel to those who are being saved.
