Westminster Presbyterian is Located in Uptown Phoenix, Just Minutes From Downtown.
4735 N. 19th Ave. Phoenix, AZ, 602-274-2122
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Order of service for January 19, 10:30 AM
Prelude (Kathleen Jones)
Welcome and Call to Worship
Hymn: “O Worship the King, All Glorious Above!” (Presbyterian Hymnal #476)
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Assurance of Pardon
Song of Praise: “God Has Smiled on Me” (Lift Up Your Hearts #69)
We Greet One Another
Choir Anthem: "Great is God," by Berta & Sonja Poorman (directed by Carol Fassbender)
Scripture Readings:
Jeremiah 31:31-34 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
Matthew 5:17-20 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Sermon (Gale Watkins, Pastor)
Affirmation of Faith (from The Confession of 1967)
The one sufficient revelation of God is Jesus Christ, the Word of
God incarnate, to whom the Holy Spirit bears unique and authoritative
witness through the Holy Scriptures, which are received and obeyed as
the word of God written.
The New Testament is the recorded testimony of apostles to the
coming of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, and the sending of the Holy
Spirit to the Church. The Old Testament bears witness to God’s faith-
fulness in his covenant with Israel and points the way to the fulfillment
of his purpose in Christ. The Old Testament is indispensable to under-
standing the New, and is not itself fully understood without the New.
God’s word is spoken to his church today where the Scriptures are
faithfully preached and attentively read in dependence on the illumination
of the Holy Spirit and with readiness to receive their truth and direction.
Song: “Thy Word” (Lift Up Your Hearts #85)
A Time of Prayer
Answers to Prayer and Prayer Requests
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
Offertory
Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Prayer
Most giving and forgiving God, you provide for our every need.
You open our lips to offer you praise.
You strengthen our hands to respond to Christ’s call.
With hearts, hands, and voices renewed by your Spirit,
we place now before you our commitment to serve.
Use us in ways that will benefit others,
and accept what we offer as a sign of our faith.
Hymn: “O Word of God Incarnate” (Presbyterian Hymnal #327)
Benediction
Postlude (Kathleen Jones)
Prayer Requests
Do you have a prayer request?
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We will forward prayer requests to our prayer chain when we receive them from the church answering machine, from one of our deacons, from email, or from the Contact page form.