SERVICE FOR
THE LORD’S DAY

November 9, 2025

The Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE

Liturgist, Sharon Bryant

CALL TO WORSHIP — based on Psalm 91:2; Romans 10:9, 13     

Leader: Let us worship God.

People: “He is our refuge and our fortress,
our God, in whom we trust.”

Leader: Let us confess with our mouths, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in our hearts that God raised him
from the dead.

People: “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved.”

Leader: Let us call upon our true God, believing him in our hearts, confessing him with our mouths, worshiping him in spirit and in truth.

*OPENING HYMN #62 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

*OPENING PRAYER

*PRAISE SONG How Great is Our God

GUIDED PRAYER

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — Westminster Confession of Faith 1.1

We believe that our natural understanding and the works of creation and providence so clearly show God’s goodness, wisdom, and power that human beings have no excuse for not believing in him.  However, these means alone cannot provide that knowledge of God and of his will which is necessary for salvation. Therefore it pleased the Lord at different times and in various ways to reveal himself and to declare that this revelation contains his will for his church.  Afterwards it pleased God to put this entire revelation into writing so that the truth might be better preserved and transmitted and that the church, confronted with the corruption of the flesh and the evil purposes of Satan and the world, might be more securely established and comforted.  Since God no longer reveals himself to his people in those earlier ways, Holy Scripture is absolutely essential. 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 4:1-6

Pastor:  The Word of the Lord

People:  Thanks be to God

SERMON: Rev. David Garrison

TEST EVERYTHING

Series: A Life That Shines

But test everything; hold fast what is good.
 — 1 Thessalonians 5:21

*CLOSING HYMN #560 May the Mind of Christ My Savior

*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   Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. ⁴ Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. ⁵ They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

— 1 John 4:1-6 (ESV)