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"For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope

set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people." I Timothy 4.10

Sunday Morning, November 15, 2009

Setup and Music Rehearsal: 8:00

Adult & Children’s Sunday School: 9:15

Fellowship with Coffee and Refreshments: 10:05

Worship Service: 10:30

Meeting at Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, VA

550 Courthouse Rd (west of I-95)



Pastor Leonard Bailey

leonard@

540-645-2880

All passages of Scripture are from the English Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.

Copies are available for your use on the bookcase at the back of the auditorium.

Please return them to the bookcase after the worship service.

CCLI# 2960788

Song of Gathering

Everlasting God

Music and Lyrics by Brenton Brown, 2005

Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord,

We will wait upon the Lord

We will wait upon the Lord (Repeat)

Our God, You reign forever

Our hope, our strong deliverer

You are the everlasting God

The everlasting God

You do not faint, You won't grow weary

You're the defender of the weak

You comfort those in need

You lift us up on wings like eagles

Our God, You reign forever

Our hope, our strong deliverer

You are the everlasting God

The everlasting God

You do not faint, You won't grow weary

Welcome and Announcements

Meditation Revelation 15:3-4

Great and amazing are Your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear,

O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.

Call to Worship Romans 11:33-36

Leader: Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of

God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how

inscrutable His ways! For who has known the mind of the

Lord, or who has been His counselor? Or who has given a

gift to Him that he might be repaid? For from Him and

through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory

forever. Amen. O Magnify the LORD with me!

People: Let us exalt His Name together!

Songs of Praise

Join Every Tongue to Sing & Praise

Words by Joseph Hart, 1712-1768; Music by Robert Turner, 2008

Join, every tongue, to sing and praise

The mercies of our Lord;

The love of Christ, our God and King, let every heart record.

He saved us from the wrath of God,

And paid our ransom with His blood.

Join, every tongue, to sing and praise

The mercies of our Lord;

What wondrous grace was this, was this!

We sinned; and Jesus died:

He wrought our perfect righteousness, and we were justified:

We ran the score to lengths extreme,

And all our debt was charged on Him.

Join, every tongue, to sing and praise

The mercies of our Lord;

Hell was our just desert,

And He that hell endured;

Our guilt broke His guiltless heart with wrath that we incurr'd;

We bruised His body, spilt His blood,

And both became our heavenly food.

Join, every tongue, to sing and praise

The mercies of our Lord;

Repeat verse 1

You Alone Are Holy

Words Based on Revelation 15.3b-4; Music by Robert Turner, 2009

Great and amazing are Your deeds

O Lord God, the Almighty

Just and true are Your ways

O King of the ages!

Who will not fear, Thee O Lord

And glorify Your name?

All nations will come and worship You

For Your righteous acts have been revealed

For You alone are holy (repeat 3x)

Holy are You Lord

Great and amazing are Your deeds

O Lord God, the Almighty

Just and true are Your ways

O King of the ages!

Who will not fear, Thee O Lord

And glorify Your name?

All nations will come and worship You

For Your righteous acts have been revealed

For You alone are holy (repeat 3x)

Holy are You Lord

Words of Preparation

The psalmist models a transparent faith with these words: 

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” We express our longing for God’s leading by our own transparent confession. 

Confession of Sin

Our Father, forgive us for thinking small thoughts of You 

And for ignoring Your immensity and greatness. 

Lord Jesus, forgive us when we forget

That You rule the nations and our small lives. 

Holy Spirit, we offend You in minimizing Your power 

And squandering Your gifts. 

We confess that our blindness to Your glory, O triune God, 

Has resulted in shallow confession, tepid conviction,

And only mild repentance. 

Have mercy upon us.

In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

Song of Confession

Great is Thy Faithfulness

Words by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1923, Music by William M. Runyan, 1923

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;

There is no shadow of turning with Thee;

Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;

As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.

(Chorus)

Great is Thy faithfulness!

Great is Thy faithfulness!

Morning by morning new mercies I see.

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;

Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,

Sun, moon and stars in their courses above

Join with all nature in manifold witness

To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

(Chorus)

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth

Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,

Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

(Chorus)

Words of Assurance Ephesians 1:13-14

In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His glory.

Prayer for Offering

Song of Offering/Thanksgiving

How Sweet and Awful Is the Place

Words by Isaac Watts; Ancient Irish Melody

How sweet and awful is the place

With Christ within the doors,

While everlasting love displays

The choicest of her stores.

While all our hearts and all our songs

Join to admire the feast,

Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,

“Lord, why was I a guest?”

“Why was I made to hear Thy voice,

And enter while there’s room,

When thousands make a wretched choice,

And rather starve than come?”

’Twas the same love that spread the feast

That sweetly drew us in;

Else we had still refused to taste,

And perished in our sin.

Pity the nations, O our God

Constrain the earth to come

Send Thy victorious Word abroad

And bring the strangers home

We long to see Thy churches full

That all the chosen race

May, with one voice and heart and soul,

Sing Thy redeeming grace

Prayer for the Kingdom

Sermon Gordon Duncan

Romans 9:19-29 Page 945

The God of His Own Expectations

❖ Big Picture Question:

How is a God who meets His own expectations more worthy of praise than a god that meets your expectations? 

❖ Verses 19-24

What argument from creation is Paul addressing?

What right does God claim for Himself?

Why does God do what He does in verse 23?

❖ Verses 25, 26

Again, God reserves the right only to meet His expectations and not anyone else’s. Are you comfortable serving a God like that?

❖ Verses 27-29

Even when we don’t understand God, He is forever merciful. How does God demonstrate His mercy in this passage?

Song of Response

Thy Mercy My God

Words by John Stoker; Music by Sandra McCracken

Thy mercy my God is the theme of my song

The joy of my heart and the boast of my tongue

Thy free grace alone from the first to the last

Hath won my affection and bound my soul fast

Without Thy sweet mercy I could not live here

Sin would reduce me to utter despair

But through Thy free goodness my spirits revived

And He that first made me so keeps me alive

Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart

Which wonders to feel it's own hardness depart

Dissolved by Thy goodness I fall to the ground

And weep for the praise of the mercy I've found

Great Father of mercies, Thy goodness I own

And the covenant love of Thy crucified Son

All praise to the Spirit whose whisper divine

Seals mercy and pardon and righteousness mine

Benediction

Calendar for this Week:

Today 6:00pm Autumn Ridge Care Group at the Bailey home

(Leader, Don Davis, 540-720-2035)

6:00pm Edinburgh Care Group at the Jany home

(Leader, Paul Jany, 540-891-1118)

Monday 6:30pm Stafford Lakes Care Group at the Murphy home

(Leader, James Murphy, 540-752-6118)

Thursday 7:00pm Praise team practice (Pete Griffin, 540-286-1821)

Friday 6:00pm Aquia Harbor Care Group at the Leino home

(Leader, Rich Leino, 540-446-5918)

Saturday 10:30am Pampered Chef Benefit Party for the Benke Adoption Fund

at Amy Bailey’s home. Bring a friend!

(Anna Best, 540-318-8660)

5:00pm Chili Cook-off at the Garners. All are invited to compete!

(Dan Wright, 540-318-8184)

Sunday 8:00am Setup & music rehearsal

**Watch for information regarding start-up of Women’s Discipleship**

**Offered Tuesday evenings and Wednesday mornings**

Upcoming Events:

4th Sunday 10:30am Communion service followed by a potluck meal at Colonial

Of Month Forge. Bring a main dish and side dish or dessert.

Drinks will be provided.

Dec. 5 7:00am Men’s Leadership Training for all men. We will continue to

discuss the Westminster Confession of Faith.

(Pastor Leonard Bailey 540-645-2880)

Dec. 6 1:30pm Sunday School presentation for the Greenfield Nursing Home.

Bring a bag lunch for after church.

(Kathryn Chapman, 540-318-6111)

Nursery Ministry: Katie Murphy, 540-752-6118

Nov. 15 Sunday School: K. Murphy / J. Murphy **Be there by 9:00 am

Worship: K. Chapman / K. Hamill / K. Davis **Be there by 10:15 am

Nov. 22 Sunday School: P. Jany / W. Turner

Worship: E. Garner / P. VanHooser / J. Griffin

Refreshment Ministry Sign-up sheet on Refreshment Table

Nov. 15 – Pete Griffin Nov. 22 – Blanche Griffin

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