April 6, 2025

(Apostles’ Creed)

Preaching: Rev. Dan Borvan

Call to Worship: Psalm 66:1-3

Invocation: Psalm 67:5

Let the peoples praise you, O God;

let all the peoples praise you!

Reading of the Law: Exodus 20:1-17

And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the  seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Old Testament Lesson: Genesis 9:1-7

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. 7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

New Testament Lesson: Colossians 3:1-17

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Sermon: “Image of God” Part 3

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 66-A) “O Shout to God with Joy”

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 34-A) “I Will at All Times Bless the Lord” (verses 1-5)

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – #496) “My Jesus, I Love Thee”

Afternoon Worship Bulletin 

*Call to Worship: Psalm 117:1

*God’s Greeting: 1 Timothy 1:2

*Psalm #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 124) “Now Israel May Say”

*Prayer for Illumination

*Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 43:8-13

*New Testament Lesson: Acts 4:5-12

Confessional Reading: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 11

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 125) “All Those Who Trust the Lord”

*Benediction 

April 13, 2025 (Palm Sunday)

Apostles’ Creed

Preaching: Rev. Dan Borvan

Call to Worship: Psalm 118:1 

Invocation: Psalm 118:4

Let those who fear the Lord say,
“His steadfast love endures forever.”

Reading of the Law: Psalm 15:1-5

O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? 2 He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; 3 who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; 4 in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; 5 who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 28:18-19

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it. 19 As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

New Testament Lesson: Mark 11:1-11

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” 4 And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. 5 And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6 And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go. 7 And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. 8 And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. 9 And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”

11 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

Sermon: “The Royal Procession”

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 118-B) “The Glorious Gates of Righteousness” (Verses 1-4)

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 118-B “The Glorious Gates of Righteousness” (Verses 5-8)

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – #328) “When His Salvation Bringing”

Afternoon Worship Bulletin 

*Call to Worship: Psalm 67:3-4   

*God’s Greeting: Revelation 1:4-5

*Psalm #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 126-B) “When in His Might the Lord Arose”

*Prayer for Illumination

*The Old Testament Lesson: Zechariah 9:9-13

*The New Testament Lesson: Acts 3:11-27

Confessional Reading: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 12 

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 127-A) “Unless the Lord the House Shall Build”

*Benediction