Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost

August 12, 2012  

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Community Life: After the Service Each week, we linger for fellowship with one another. Please join us for refreshments in the cafeteria.

Community Groups In addition to weekly worship, we offer small groups (community groups, men’s and women’s bible studies, book studies) that meet throughout the week. We want all of our members and regular attenders to be intentional about building trusting and meaningful spiritual relationships. For a complete list of our small groups, please visit our website (www.cityviewchicago.org) or fill out one of our “connection cards” for more information.

Welcome to Cityview Presbyterian Church

To Our Guests: Visiting a church can be an intimidating experience. We are glad that you are here, and we hope to remove as much of that awkwardness as we can from your visit to Cityview.

Our worship service usually lasts about 75 minutes. This worship guide will help you navigate the service. There are short paragraphs on the next page to explain each part of the service.

The service is designed to be accessible to you, whether you’ve spent years in the church or you’ve never been to a church service in your life. During the service, we will try to help you understand how the message of Jesus can apply to your life today.

If you are new to Cityview or just visiting, we would love to know that you were here. We have clipboards next to each row: we call those our “Connection Cards”. Connection Cards are a way for you to let us know whatever information you might want us to know and to request any information from us that you might need. Pastor Dan Adamson (dadamson@cityviewchicago.org) is available to answer questions, as well.

For Children: Children of all ages are welcome in the worship service.

Nursery is provided during the service for children 2 years of age and younger.

Children ages three through 5th grade are given the choice of attending Sunday school classes beginning during the greeting portion of the service.

If you have any questions about children’s ministry at Cityivew, please contact Children’s Ministry Coordinator Hilary Clark (hilary.r.clark@gmail.com).  

Cover Image: Three Tabernacles/ Tents by Elizabeth Steele Halstead. Reprinted by permission from Visuals for Worship, ©2006, Faith Alive Christian Resources

All songs used by permission CCLI License #11041992

Scripture reprinted from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission.

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The Liturgy

Preparing for Worship The goal of our time of gathering is to engage with God together, listening to him in his Word and speaking to him in prayer and song. Because we often enter this time tired, overwhelmed and distracted, we take a few moments at the beginning of our meeting to prepare to meet God in worship.

Call to Worship We need to be “called” to come and worship God because we default to thinking the world revolves around our needs and agendas, and also because we struggle to believe that God truly wants us to draw near to him. The call to worship focuses our attention on God and prepares us to meet him.

Confession of Sin The Scriptures declare that each of us has failed in the way we act toward God and each other. We confess our sin to be honest and transparent about this reality and to admit our ongoing dependence on the mercy of God through Jesus. We confess as a community to show our unity even in our brokenness.

Assurance of Grace We confess our sins not just to admit what is true, but also to be reminded again of the truth that Jesus came into this world to save sinners; and all of our sin has been forgiven through him. Every week, following our confession, we hear God speak to us in Scripture of this forgiveness so that our faith might be strengthened.

Worship Through Giving Because money is so powerfully tied to our hearts, this is a valuable expression of worship as we acknowledge that everything we have comes from God and belongs to him. If you are visiting with us, we are just glad you are here- please do not feel obligated to give.

The Sermon Some view the Sermon as a way to get principles for “right” living. In reality, as we open the Scripture we corporately encounter Christ. Therefore, as you listen, pray to be open to the Spirit’s leading, exhortation, encouragement, and healing.

Communion Communion, also called the Lord’s Supper or the Eucharist, is the family meal for Christians. We welcome all Christians - those who look to Christ alone for salvation, who are in good standing with His Church, and who seek strength to live more faithfully to their Savior - to join in this sacrament.

The Benediction God always gets the last word in our encounter of worship. For Christians, it is always a word of blessing and sending to live our lives in the light of the reality of the Gospel of Christ.

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ORDER OF WORSHIP

“What is your hope? Only this — his relentless grace, boundless love, patient forgiveness and unending faithfulness.”

Paul David Tripp “God is not a prisoner of our faith, but of his own perfection. Faith obligates God to act not because it is a magical incantation that can be used to control God but because faith in God’s promises calls attention to God’s own faithfulness. The assurance upon which faith is based is the glory of God’s character, not the power of our believing.” Scott J. Hafemann

God Calls Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 100 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.

Worship the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing.

Know that the LORD is God. It is he that made us, and we are his;

We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name.

For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Prayer of Adoration

O God, you pour out the Spirit of grace and love. Deliver us from cold hearts and wandering thoughts, that with steady minds and burning zeal we may worship you in spirit and truth.

Amen.

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Hymn of Praise Abiding City

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Words and Music: Sandra McCracken

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Hymn of Praise Holy, Holy, Holy

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Public Domain

Holy, Holy, HolyWords by Reginald HeberMusic by John Dykes

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Hymn of Praise O Lord of Light

 

  God Cleanses Us Confession of Sin

Lord, in your mercy hear our prayer.

We confess that it is still all too easy for us to sacrifice our convictions for convenience, your standards for status, your principles for promotion, your absolutes for our ambition, our souls for shallow and unsatisfying success. How easily we are seduced by power, prestige, pleasure, or possessions. Forgive us our half-hearted devotion of you. In the name of him who refused to save himself we pray. Amen.

Silent Confession

 

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Hymn of Confession Not What My Hands Have Done

   

Assurance of Grace – 1 John 4:9

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In Christ, we are loved and forgiven.

Thanks be to God!

Brothers and Sisters, you have heard God’s holy demands and have confessed your sins to him. Do you believe that Jesus Christ, by his perfect life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection has atoned for your sins and satisfied the wrath of God for you?

We do.  

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Not What My Hands Have DoneWords by Horatius Bonar

Music by Kevin Twit

© 2001 Kevin Twit Music

Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Hymn of Assurance Cling to the Crucified

1.Cling to the Mighty One, Cling in thy grief Cling to the Holy One, He gives relief Cling to the Gracious One, Cling in thy pain Cling to the Faithful One, He will sustain

Cling to the crucified, Jesus the Lamb who died Cling to the crucified, Jesus the King Cling to the crucified, Jesus the Lamb who died Cling to the crucified, Jesus the King

2. Cling to the Living One, Cling in thy woe Cling to the Loving One, Through all below Cling to the Pardoning One, He speaketh peace Cling to the Healing One, Anguish will cease

3. Cling to the Bleeding One, Cling to His side Cling to the Rising One, In Him abide Cling to the Coming One, Hope shall arise Cling to the Reigning One, Joy lights thine eyes

Opportunities and Concerns

Passing of the Peace - from John 13:34 Hear the teaching of Christ: “A new command I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you.” The peace of Christ be with you all.

And also with you!

Worship Through Giving

Words: Anonymous Music: Kevin Twit

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.

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God Speaks To Us

Sermon Text – Genesis 18: 1-15; 21:1-7

And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth 3 and said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. 4 Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, 5 while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on— since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.” 6 And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.” 7 And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly. 8 Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate. 9 They said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “She is in the tent.” 10 The Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?” 13 The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.” 15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.” 21:1 The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. 2 And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.” 7 And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God!

Sermon The Life of Abraham: Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord? Reverend Dan Adamson

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God Strengthens Us

Confession of Faith- Heidelberg Catechism, Question 1 What is your only comfort !in life and in death?

That I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death- to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

Prayer of Thanksgiving and Consecration

Communion

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them up to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give him thanks and praise.

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   Doxology

Prayers for Reflection

Prayer for those struggling with sin Lord Jesus, grant that I may see in you the fulfillment of all my need, and may turn from every false satisfaction to feed on you, the true and living bread. Enable me to lay aside the sin that clings so closely, and faithfully follow you in life. Amen. Prayer of commitment Lord Jesus, you have called us to follow you in baptism and in a life of committed discipleship in your church. Grant that I may take the necessary steps to be one with your people, and live in the fullness of your Spirit. Amen.

 

Prayer for those searching for truth Lord Jesus, you claim to be the way, the truth, and the life. As I consider the reasons for doing so, grant that I might be undaunted by the cost of following you. If what you claim is true, please guide me, teach me, and open to me the reality of who you are. Give me an understanding of you that is coherent, convincing, and that leads to the life that you promise. Amen.

Prayer of belief Lord Jesus, I admit that I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through you I am more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope. I thank you for paying my debt, bearing my punishment on the cross, and offering forgiveness and new life. Knowing that you have been raised from the dead, I turn from my sins and receive you as Savior and Lord. Amen.  

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow  Praise Him, all creatures here below Praise Him above, ye heavenly host Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

 

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God Commissions Us

Hymn of Benediction O God Our Help in Ages Past

Benediction and Dismissal (The benediction is not a prayer but a pronouncement- a time with open hands to receive the good word spoken over you.)

May our Lord Jesus Christ, the One who came with grace and truth, also fill your hearts with grace and truth, as you serve him in the days ahead. And may the joy of the Lord—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit— be your strength.

Thanks be to God! Go forth to greet the world at work, as here the Lord has greeted us in worship. Go forth in the name of God the Creator, whose strength empowers us; in the name of Christ the Redeemer, whose love transforms us; and in the name of the Holy Spirit, whose presence guides us.

Thanks be to God!

 

Words: Isaac Watts Music: William Croft

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Public Domain

O God, Our Help In Ages PastWords by Isaac Watts

Music by William Croft

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Around Cityview

The Trellis and the Vine Book Study will meet this Wednesday at 7pm at the Adamson home. Read chapters 10-the end of the book and bring a snack to share. RSVP to Dan.

Friday Night Cookout-

Pint Night- Our next Pint Night will be this Tuesday,

August 14th at 7pm at the Beer Bistro on Madison. Join us for $2 burgers, the art of conversation and the joy of a good beer. RSVP to Dan Adamson.

Opportunities to Serve- If you are newer to Cityview and

looking for a place to serve, consider the following needs: Musicians, Snack Volunteers, Set Up and Break Down, and Greeters. Talk to Dan Adamson if you would like to learn more.

Job Coaching at Breakthrough Urban Ministries- Joel

Avila coordinates a weekly job coaching class at Breakthrough Urban Ministries in West Garfield Park. The class meets from 6-7 pm each Thursday. If you would like to help lead one or more classes, or find out more about how you can get involved, contact Joel at joel.p.avila@gmail.com.

Serving This Week

Sound Joel Avila

Greeters Rob and Lela Saffle

Bread Hilary Clark

Snacks Jenny Avila

Nursery Christina Jenq

Sunday School Susan Young

Serving Next Week

Sound Erica Oh

Greeters Kylene Young and Danny Kim

Bread Carolyn Koonce

Snacks

Nursery Paul Leo

Sunday School Carolyn Koonce

Sunday School Lynda Adamson

Contacts CITYVIEWCHICAGO.ORG

Dan Adamson, Pastor dadamson@cityviewchicago.org

Jenny Avila, Administrative Coordinator jenny.n.avila@gmail.com

Herb Bowsher, Financial Administrator bowsher@comcast.net

Hilary Clark, Children’s Ministry Coordinator hilary.r.clark@gmail.com

Carolyn Koonce, Social Coordinator carolyn.groenewold@gmail.com

Paul Leo, Service & Outreach Coordinator contactpaulleo@gmail.com

Paul-David Young, Music Coordinator music@cityviewchicago.org

July 2012 Congregational Giving*

Actual Monthly Giving: $ 13,306 Budgeted Monthly Giving: $ 12,250 Difference: $ 1,056 Actual YTD Giving: $ 68,287 Budgeted 2012 Giving YTD: $ 85,750 Difference: $ -17,463

*In addition to congregational giving, 20% of our overall operating budget is currently comprised of financial support from other churches and individuals. Our budgeted congregational giving represents 80% of the overall operating budget.