SERVICE FOR
THE LORD’S DAY

August 10, 2025

The Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE

Liturgist, John Lange

CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 47:1-2, 5-6

Leader: Clap your hands, all you peoples;
shout to God with loud songs of joy.

People: For the LORD, the Most High, is awesome,
a great king over all the earth.

Leader: God has gone up with a shout,
the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

People: Sing praises to God, sing praises;
sing praises to our King, sing praises.

*OPENING SONG Come, Ye Sinners

*OPENING PRAYER

*PRAISE SONG Jesus, I Come

GUIDED PRAYER

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — Westminster Confession of Faith 26.2

We believe that by their profession of faith saints are bound to maintain a holy fellowship and communion with each other in the worship of God and in the performance of other spiritual services for their mutual improvement. They are also bound to help each other in material things according to their different abilities and needs. This fellowship is to be offered, as God gives the opportunity, to everyone in every place who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus.  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 #808

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

OLD TESTAMENT READING: Genesis 2:18-25

NEW TESTAMENT READING: Ephesians 2:12-22

Pastor:  The Word of the Lord

People:  Thanks be to God

SERMON: Rev. David Garrison

LONELY NATION

Series: Echoes of Eden

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” — Genesis 2:18

*CLOSING HYMN #689 The Church’s One Foundation

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE 

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This Sunday’s Scripture reading:

Gen. 2:18   Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

             “This at last is bone of my bones

                        and flesh of my flesh;

             she shall be called Woman,

                        because she was taken out of Man.”

24   Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

— Genesis 2:18-25 (ESV)

Eph. 2:12 Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

— Ephesians 2:12-18 (ESV)