September 27th, 2026

ORDER OF WORSHIP

September 27, 2026

 

*Indicates those able may stand

When the prelude begins, please quiet your hearts in preparation for worship

 

Prelude

“Wenn wir in hochsten Noten sein” (BWV 641) J.S. Bach (When in the hour of utmost need)

“Mit Freuden zart” E. Pepping

(With tender joy)

Welcome and Announcements Dr. Drew DiNardo 

 

Preparation for Worship  Dr. Stuart Sacks  

 

*Call to Worship (Adapted from Psalm 145:1-3)

One: I will extol You, my God and King, and bless Your name forever and ever.

All: Every day I will bless You and praise Your name forever and ever.

One: Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable.

 

*Invocation

 

*Hymn 48 “O Lord Most High, with All My Heart” ROCKINGHAM OLD

Call to Confession

 

Time of Silent Confession Rev. Nathan Titus  

Words of Assurance

 

*The Gloria Patri

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 

and to the Holy Ghost; 

as it was in the beginning, 

is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

 

*4th Sunday Confession of Faith (taken from Westminster Confession of Faith)

We believe God requires of us faith in Jesus Christ and repentance unto life to escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin; 

 

We believe by His free grace we are effectually called, justified, and sanctified, and gathered into the visible church out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation; 

We believe that we also are given in this life such accompanying benefits as assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. 

We believe that at death, we are made perfect in holiness and immediately pass into glory; we shall openly be acknowledged and acquitted in the Day of Judgment, and 

We believe we are made perfectly blessed in the fully enjoying of God for all eternity. Amen.

 

Psalter Reading (Psalm 67) Page 808

 

Pastoral Prayer and 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, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

 

Offertory "Shall We Gather by the River" arr. J. Raney

(Jocelyn Crosby, flute)

 

*Doxology

Sermon Text Mark 5:1-20 Page 840

 

Sermon “From Demoniac to Disciple” Dr. Drew DiNardo

 

*Closing Hymn 455 “And Can It Be That I Should Gain” SAGINA

*Benediction  

 

*Congregation Three-fold Amen

 

*Postlude “Fugue in C” J.S. Bach