Looking to Sunday - 10/31 (Reformation Day!)

Horicon Baptist Church
October 31st, 2021
 
Order of Service
Announcements
Call to Worship: Psalm 46
37 – A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Prayer
Worship Through Giving
The Doxology
OT Reading – Psalm 149
He Will Hold Me Fast
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon
212 – Nothing But the Blood
Sermon: John 4:43-54
268 – How Firm a Foundation

​Thoughts from the Saints
I've learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the rock of ages. // Charles Spurgeon
 
Services
Sunday School: 9:45am         Sunday Service: 11am
Prayer Meeting: 6pm
 
Announcements & Events
November 1st: Reformation movie night!
November 12th-13th: Men’s Conference in Speculator
November 21st: Operation Christmas Child drop off deadline.

Call to Worship
God is our refuge and strength,
    an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
    and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
    and the mountains quake with their surging.
The Lord Almighty is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress.
— Psalm 46:1-3,7

Worship Through Giving
“Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
bring an offering, and come into his courts.
Worship the LORD in holy splendor;
tremble before him, all the earth.”
 — Psalm 96: 8-9

Old Testament Reading – Psalm 149
149 Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
    his praise in the assembly of the godly!
2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker;
    let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
3 Let them praise his name with dancing,
    making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
    he adorns the humble with salvation.
5 Let the godly exult in glory;
    let them sing for joy on their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats
    and two-edged swords in their hands,
7 to execute vengeance on the nations
    and punishments on the peoples,
8 to bind their kings with chains
    and their nobles with fetters of iron,
9 to execute on them the judgment written!
    This is honor for all his godly ones.
Praise the Lord!

Prayer of Confession
The psalmist testifies:
Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
    the Lord would not have listened.
But truly God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Blessed be God,
    because he has not rejected my prayer
    or removed his steadfast love from me!
— Psalm 66:16,18-20

Assurance of Pardon
“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” — Isaiah 1:18