Bulletin Sept 8, 2024

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23

22:1A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: the LORD is the maker of them all.

22:8Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.

22:9Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.

22:22Do not rob the poor because they are poor or crush the afflicted at the gate,

22:23for the LORD pleads their cause and despoils of life those who despoil them.

 Blessed Assurance

 1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!

Heir of salvation, purchase of God,

born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.

Refrain:This is my story, this is my song,

praising my Savior all the day long.

This is my story, this is my song,

praising my Savior all the day long.

2 Perfect communion, perfect delight,

visions of rapture now burst on my sight.

Angels descending bring from above

echoes of mercy, whispers of love. [Refrain]

3 Perfect submission, all is at rest.

I in my Savior am happy and bless’d,

watching and waiting, looking above,

filled with his goodness, lost in his love. [Refrain] 1 O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder

consider all the works thy hands hath made,

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,

thy pow'r throughout the universe displayed;

Refrain: Then sings my soul, my Savior-God, to thee:

How great thou art! How great thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Savior-God, to thee:

How great thou art! How great thou art!

2 When through the woods and forest glades I wander,

and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;

when I look down from lofty mountain grandeur

and hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze; [Refrain]

3 And when I think that God, his Son not sparing,

sent him to die, I scarce can take it in,

that on the cross my burden gladly bearing

he bled and died to take away my sin; [Refrain]

4 When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation

and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!

Then I shall bow in humble adorationand there proclaim:

"My God, how great thou art!" [Refrain]

Psalm 146

146:1Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!

146:2I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.

146:3Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

146:4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

146:5Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God,

146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;

146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

146:8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

146:9The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

146:10The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD!

James 2:1-10, 14-17

2:1My brothers and sisters, do not claim the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory while showing partiality.

2:2For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,

2:3and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, "Have a seat here in a good place, please," while to the one who is poor you say, "Stand there," or, "Sit by my footstool,"

2:4have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

2:5Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

2:6But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?

2:7Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you?

2:8If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

2:9But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

2:10For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

2:14What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it?

2:15If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food

2:16and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?

2:17So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

10,000 Reasons 

Bless the Lord, o my soul, o my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before, o my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning

It's time to sing Your song again

Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me

Let me be singing when the evening comes

Bless the Lord, o my soul, o my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before, o my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

You're rich in love and You're slow to anger

Your name is great and Your heart is kind

For all Your goodness, I will keep on singing

Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

Bless the Lord, o my soul, o my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before, o my soul

I'll worship Your holy name (bless you Lord)

And on that day when my strength is failing

The end draws near and my time has come

Still, my soul will sing Your praise unending

Ten thousand years and then forevermore

Forevermore

Fellowship so Deep

For the love that knows no ending, in the wisdom of God’s plan

For the light that was descending to revive the heart of man

Chrit the Lamb was made to suffer and to die upon a tree

So that we, sisters and brothers, could know His fellowship so deep

Let us sing of our Redeemer and of His love that made us free

And know this gift is our forever

A fellowship so deep

A fellowship so deep

We can feel His love among us, and we can sing redemption’s song

We can hear the Spirit call us to a place where we belong

For His joy is in our laughter and His comfort in our grief

Let His love here and ever after be the language that we speak

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to the Lamb, hallelujah to the Lamb

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to the Lamb, hallelujah to the Lamb

John 15:12-17

12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.