SERVICE FOR
THE LORD’S DAY
September 21, 2025
The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE
Liturgist, Sharon Bryant
CALL TO WORSHIP – based on Exodus 15:26; Isaiah 6:10
Leader: God invites us into his healing presence with these words: “I am the Lord, who heals you.”
People: Diseased, depressed, dysfunctional, defeated,
we come hungering for health that only God
can provide.
Leader: God calls us to bring open eyes, hearing ears,
and tender hearts turned toward him,
the Great Physician.
People: We bow before him in faith and expectancy!
*OPENING HYMN #473 And Can It Be
*OPENING PRAYER
*PRAISE SONG In Christ Alone
GUIDED PRAYER
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — Westminster Confession of Faith 35.4
We believe that since there is no other way of salvation than that revealed in the gospel, and since in the divinely established and ordinary method of grace faith comes by hearing the word of God, Christ has commissioned his church to go into all the world and to make disciples of all nations. All believers are, therefore, under obligation to sustain the ordinances of the Christian religion where they are already established, and to contribute by their prayers, gifts, and personal efforts to the extension of the kingdom of Christ throughout the whole earth. 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 3:15-21
GOSPEL READING: John 3:16-21
NEW TESTAMENT READING: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Pastor: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
SERMON: Rev. David Garrison
THE GOOD NEWS
Series: Three Circles
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish
but have eternal life. — John 3:16
*CLOSING HYMN #199 Tell Me the Story of Jesus
*BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE
WELCOME TO NORTHMINSTER EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
…
21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
— Genesis 3:15, 21 (ESV)
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
— John 3:16-21 (ESV)
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
— 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (ESV)
