November 15, 2009

6:00 pm Worship Service

Speaker, Mr. Jim Stein

Call to Worship: Psalm 145:8-10

The LORD is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

⁹ The LORD is good to all,

and his compassion is over all that he has made.

¹⁰ All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD,

and all your faithful shall bless you.

Opening Prayer

Hymn: 506 – Glorious Things of You Are Spoken

Greeting

Confession of Faith - Our World Belongs to God Preamble #1 & #2 p.1019 Hymnal

Hymn: 557 – My Jesus I Love Thee

Prayer

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.^{£ 5}You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. ⁶Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. ⁷Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. ⁸Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem^£ on your forehead, ⁹and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Matthew 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, ³⁵and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ³⁶“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” ³⁷He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Sermon:

What are the specific ways (our actions and words) in which we show God’s love to others? How do we live John 13:34-35? Does our love to others affect God’s love for us?

Prayer

Hymn: 490 - Blessed Assurance: Jesus is Mine

Offering: Ministry Shares

God's Blessing

Hymn: 530 - I Love to Tell the Story

John 13:34-35

³⁴I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. ³⁵By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1Corinthians 13:4-8, 13

⁴Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant ⁵or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. ⁷It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never ends.

¹³And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Quotations on Love

If you have love, you are not only going to think no evil, you’re going to take your tongue and have it nailed to the cross so that you bless instead of curse.

Billy Graham

In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Margaret Anderson (1893–1973)

Jesus redefines the meaning of love for neighbor; it means love for any man in need.

George Eldon Ladd (1911–1982)

Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl Augustus Menninger (1893–1990)

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

Love is an action, an activity. It is not a feeling.

M. Scott Peck (1936– )

Love is friendship set to music.

Robert Pollok (1798–1827)

not boastful or arrogant or rude

Holy Spirit

CHRIST

In YOU

patient

kind

bears all things

hopes all things

endures all things

believes all things

not envious

never ends

not irritable or resentful

rejoices in the truth

not rejoice in wrongdoing

not insist on its own way