SERVICE FOR
THE LORD’S DAY

November 16, 2025

The Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE

Liturgist, Debbie Irvine

CALL TO WORSHIP — based on Psalm 124:8                                  

Leader: “Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.”

People: What did God do to help us?

Leader: God chose the people of Israel to make
a new beginning.

People: They received God’s covenant and prepared the way for Jesus to come as our Savior.

Leader: Let us worship the God of the covenant,
the God of heaven and earth.

*OPENING HYMN #108 Come Christians Join to Sing

*OPENING PRAYER

*PRAISE SONG Here I Am To Worship

GUIDED PRAYER

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — Westminster Larger Catechism Q.76

Leader: What is repentance unto life?

People:  Repentance unto life is a saving grace worked in the hearts of sinners by the Spirit and the word of God. By it sinners recognize not only how dangerous it is to commit sins but also how filthy and hateful they are to God. Understanding that in Christ God is merciful to those who repent, sinners suffer such deep sorrow for and hate their sins so much that they turn away from all of them and turn to God, attempting to walk continually with him according to this new obedience in every way. Amen.

SPECIAL MUSIC

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND 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.

WORSHIPING GOD WITH OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS

       Offertory 

       *Offertory Response — “Doxology”

              Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

              Praise Him all creatures here below;

              Praise Him above, ye heavenly host: 

              Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Amen.

       *Prayer of Dedication

NEW TESTAMENT READING: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22

NEW TESTAMENT READING: 1 John 1:5-2:2

Pastor:  The Word of the Lord

People:  Thanks be to God

SERMON: Rev. David Garrison

WALKING IN THE LIGHT

Series: A Life That Shines

Abstain from every form of evil.
 — 1 Thessalonians 5:22

*CLOSING HYMN #410 Nothing But The Blood

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE

WELCOME TO NORTHMINSTER EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray without ceasing, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ¹⁹Do not quench the Spirit. ²⁰ Do not despise prophecies, ²¹ but test everything; hold fast what is good. ²² Abstain from every form of evil.

— 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22 (ESV)

^1:5   This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸ If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

^2:1   My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. ² He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

— 1 John 1:5-2:2 (ESV)