Order Of Worship
Pre Song
Come Now Is the Time To Worship
Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving
Call to Worship & God's Greeting
BLESSed to be a BLESSing
Mother’s Day Video
Summer Camp
Children's Message
“What Is A Mother”
Our Morning Prayers
Offering - Doxology (stand up) - Deaconal Prayer -
Sending and God's Parting Blessing
God's Parting Blessing:
God go before you to lead you, God go behind you to protect you,
God go beneath you to support you, God go beside you to befriend you.
Do not be afraid.
May the blessing of God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit be upon you
Do not be afraid. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
Amen
Closing Song
Create In Me A Clean Heart
Have a Great Week!
Sermon Outline
“The Greatest Of These Is Love”
1 Corinthians 13
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
BLESSed to be a BLESSing
Kid's Bulletin
"Jesus Gives Us the Comforter"
John 14:15-21
Summary of this sermon...
Jesus promises the Holy Spirit as a helper and comforter in John 14:15-21. Through a fan and streamer activity, kids experience the wind's invisible presence, illustrating the Holy Spirit's work in believers' lives. Although unseen, the Holy Spirit brings comfort and help, reminding us of God's presence and love.
Set up the fan to move and blow over the children. Hand each child a piece of streamer to hold as you talk. Allow them to hold it up into the wind when it comes their way.
Today we are going to talk about something you can’t see, but you know it’s there.
Pretend just to begin feeling the wind. Act surprised and unaware of what you’re feeling and what the source of the wind is.
Do you feel that? What is it and where is it coming from? (Allow kids to answer, but keep asking them to provide facts and proof of this wind they do not see.)
So you’re convinced there is wind here even though you don’t see it? We can’t see the wind, but we sure see what it’s doing, don’t we? I see it blowing some of your streamers, some of your hair is moving, and I also feel much cooler than I did before.
Do you know what this reminds me of in the Bible? (Allow kids to guess.) I’ll give you a hint: It’s an amazing gift left for us when Jesus returned to heaven to be with His Father. Do you know what it is now? (Allow kids to guess.)
Jesus promised us a helper, and that helper is the Holy Spirit. We don’t see the Holy Spirit because He lives inside of those of us who make Jesus our Lord and Savior. But just like the wind from the fan today, even though we can’t see the Holy Spirit, we know that He brings comfort and help to us.
God, even though we can’t see You, we know You are real. We also know Your Holy Spirit is real. Thank You for the comfort You bring us through the gift of Your Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
