This week’s text is James 2:8-13 in which James reminds us that we are all lawbreakers, especially of the command to love our neighbor, but that mercy triumphs over judgment. The worship theme is God’s mercy and the visual theme is waterfalls – an image of God’s mercy poured out.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 150222 Heart Prep
Prelude:
Not Guilty Anymore – Aaron Keyes
Worship Set:
Medley: Come Worship the Lord God Almighty (Twila Paris)
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing – Hymn #2
Ephesians 2:1-10 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Your Grace is Sufficient For Me –
When All Thy Mercies (traditional hymn, arr. Ortega)
Jesus, What a Friend for Sinners – the original hymn
Romans 3:21-28 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 27Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Thy Mercy My God – Caedmon’s Call
All the Way My Savior Leads Me – Hymn #460
Offertory:
Let Mercy Lead – Rich Mullins
Benedictions:
Let Me Be Open – Caedmon’s Call
Justice Will Roll Down – Sandra McCracken