BHPC Bulletin for 6/24/07

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The Lord’s Day
June 24, 2007

Welcome to
Beal Heights Presbyterian Church
614 SW Park Avenue, Lawton, Oklahoma 73501
(580) 3554702 / www.bealheights.org / info@bealheights.org
The Elders: John O. Butler, Pastor / Mike Rogers, Clerk / Todd Cobb
C.D.Turner (Emeritus) / Bob Nauman (Emeritus) / Deacon: Michael R. Rogers

A Few Notes About Our Services

Beal Heights observes the Lord’s Supper each Sunday. We invite all professing Christians whose membership is in good standing with an evangelical, Bible believing congregation to join with us at the Lord’s Table. If you are visiting with us today, please meet with our elder in the foyer for a quick interview to be admitted to the Lord’s Table.
When the prelude begins, please curtail conversation and prepare your hearts for worship. Please make sure electronic devices are off or using silent mode.
If you are visiting with us today, please help us to get to know you by filling out one of the blue cards in the pew racks and placing it in the offering plate when the offering is collected.
We love children in our worship services! For our parents, there is a Cry Room in the back of the sanctuary for calming children in order to return to the worship service. We also offer a Visitors’ Nursery for children 3 and under. If you wish to utilize it. Please speak with the greeters for directions.
Hearing assistance devices are available at the taping table.
If you should need assistance in any way, please speak with our greeters.

Announcements for June 24, 2007

Our recreational youth outreach to the children of our neighborhood is on Monday evenings from 6-8 PM, If you’d like to help with this recreational and evangelistic work, please see one of our elders.
We will have a Fellowship Meal after next Sunday’s morning worship service, followed by an afternoon worship service at 1:45.
Our Clothes Closet Ministry will be open this Wednesday from 9-Noon.
Our Prayer Meeting and Bible Study will be this Wednesday at 7 PM in the Chapel.
We will have a Neighborhood Block Party Outreach on Wednesday, July 4th, from 6-9 PM, with food and music. If you would like to help with this evangelistic effort, please see one of the elders.

The Lord’s Day
June 24, 2007
Beal Heights Presbyterian Church
The Morning Worship Service
10:45 AM

the congregation will please stand
The Prelude
Welcome and Announcements
Sharing of Praises and Prayer Requests
We silently prepare our hearts for worship

The call to worship Almighty God
Psalter 49 C “God Is Our Refuge”

A Prayer of Adoration, Praise, and Invocation, with The Lord’s Prayer

Old Testament Reading: Exodus 31
Solo “How Great Thou Art” Melissa Landes
New Testament Reading:1 Corinthians 16

Confession of Sin (Unison)

O most merciful God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; Who pardons all such as truly repent and turn to You; we humbly confess our sins and implore Your mercy. We have not loved You with a pure heart fervently; neither have we loved our neighbors as ourselves. We have not done justly, nor loved mercy, nor walked humbly with You, our God. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out our iniquity. Create in us a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within us. Cast us not away from Your presence; and take not Your Holy Spirit from us. Restore unto us the joy of Your salvation; and uphold us with Your free Spirit. Amen.

The Promise of God’s Pardoning Grace: Isaiah 44:21-22
Prayer of Intercession and Thanksgiving

Sermon: “Who Would Reject Salvation?”
Text: Romans 9:30-33

We pray for grace to apply what we have learned

The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
(All those who have been previously approved by our elders are invited to partake of the Supper. Others are invited to watch and pray)

Hymn 304”I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say”
The Words of Institution
Fencing the Table
A Prayer of Consecration
Distribution of the Supper
A Prayer of Thanksgiving

The Offering
The Doxology
Prayer

Hymn 521 “My Hope Is Built”
Benediction
Silent Prayer (Seated)
The Postlude: We go forth to glorify God.

THE EVENING WORSHIP SERVICE
June 24, 2007, 6:00 PM
The Call to Worship
Invocation
Hymn 110 “Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah!”
Reading of God’s Word: Ezekiel 43 & Matthew 26
Reading of God’s Law:Inside cover of hymnal (Unison)
Confession of Sin (Unison)

O Lord, eternity is yours, so you cannot be ignorant of what we tell you. By confessing our own miserable state to You and acknowledging your mercy towards us we open our hearts to You, so that You may free us wholly, as you have already begun to do; so we may cease to be wretched in ourselves and may find our happiness in You. Therefore, we acknowledge our sin before You. In how many ways have we failed You, Our Lord? O Lord, the depths of our conscience lie bare before your eyes. Could anything of ours remain hidden from You, even if we refused to confess it? We should only be shielding our eyes from seeing You, not hiding ourselves from You. For You have called us to be poor in spirit, meek, hungering and thirsting for righteousness, merciful, pure in heart, and peacemakers. Forgive us for every failure to be what You have called us to be, what the Lord Christ saved us to be, and what we ourselves, in our hearts desire to be for your sake. Forgive us, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. [Adapted from Augustine’s Confessions, XI, i; X, ii]

The Promise of God’s Pardoning Grace: Isaiah 43:25
Exhortation to Walk in Obedience
Affirmation of Faith: The Confession of Faith, 2.1, Hymnal, p. 849
Intercessory Prayers
Hymn 693 “Blessed Assurance”
Prayer of Illumination
The Sermon: “God Welcomes All (pt. 2)”
Text: Isaiah 56
Hymn 82 “Great God Of Wonders!”
Closing Prayer
Benediction