This Week at New Life Dresher

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Verbal Leader: Todd Hill (Director of Congregational Care)

Preparation Scripture: Lamentations 3:19-23

• Remember my affliction and my wanderings … My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Call To Worship: Psalm 86:5,8-9, 12-13, 15

• All: For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
• Leader: All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name. I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
• All: For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
• Leader: But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Invocation

10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)

The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)

Apostles’ Creed:

• I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

Call To Renewal: 1 John 3:11, 14, 16

• All: For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Prayer of Confession:

• All: Father, you have called me to love both my brothers and my enemies, and I confess that I fail at both. Forgive my impatience and unkindness. Forgive me for when I envy and boast. Forgive me for my arrogance and rudeness. Forgive me for when I insist on my own way. Forgive me for when I am irritable and resentful. And forgive me for when I rejoice in wrongdoing instead of rejoicing in the truth. Thank you for your perfect love for us shown to us in your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Silent Confession

Assurance of Pardon: Ephesians 2:4-5

• All: But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.

General Offering

Goodness of God

Holy Forever

Greeting and Announcements

Testimony: Corrine Young

Psalm 116 (children dismissed)

Congregational Prayer

Scripture Reading:1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon: Anthony Gammage, Preaching

Communion

Deacon’s Offering

Doxology

Benediction

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Preacher:  Anthony Gammage

Title: Christ in the Chaos: Love, the Better Way

Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

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

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

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

Sermon Outline

Main Idea: Gifts impress, love transforms, and love is received, not achieved.

1. Without Love, I Gain Nothing (1-3)
2. The Character of Love (4-7)
3. The Permanence of Love (8-13)

Sermon Questions

1. Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 again, this time with “Jesus” as the subject of every clause. Where does this portrait of Jesus’ love for you land most deeply right now? What does it do to your heart to know that this is how he has loved you, is loving you, and will love you forever?
2. Where in your life are you most tempted to read your productivity, performance, or usefulness as proof that things are well with your soul? What does that pattern reveal about where you’re actually looking for your worth?
3. Paul says love is the one thing about your life right now that survives into eternity. If that is true, what would change this week about how you treat the person in your home, your small group, or your workplace who is hardest for you to love?

Adult School of Discipleship – All Church Prayer in the Auditorium

• A Biblical Vision of Sexuality – meets in the Auditorium
• Philippians – meets in room 305
• Weekly Prayer Meeting – meets in room 101 (please join if you would like prayer)
• Welcome to New Life Class – meets in room 102A

Young Adults (18 – 30 year olds)

• meets upstairs in room 304
• contact Michelle Yardumian for more information

Communicants Class (junior & senior high kids who want to join the church)

• meets in room 102B

Senior High Youth (9 – 12th grade)

• meets upstairs in room 306
• contact Dave Hopping for more information

Junior High Youth (6 – 8th grade)

• meets upstairs in room 307
• contact Yohan Huh Prudente for more information

Children (0 – 5th grade)

• Visit the Children’s Welcome Desk on the second floor to find out where each grade meets.  Read more about our children’s ministry HERE.

At New Life Dresher, we warmly welcome individuals of all ages with special needs, whether they are children, young adults, or adults. Contact Amy Gill for more information.

• Pray for Wes and Steph as they serve in North Africa, that the Lord would help them continue to settle into their home and neighborhood, giving them peace, stability, and a sense of belonging.
• Pray for meaningful opportunities to form relationships with neighbors and others in their community, that God would open doors and prepare hearts.
• Pray for their continued language learning, that God would give them perseverance, clarity, and confidence as they grow in communication.
• Pray for their children, that their homeschooling would be fruitful and joy-filled, and that God would prepare their oldest well for enrolling in a local school next year—providing the right environment, friendships, and protection.
• Pray for Wes as he seeks to start a business, that the Lord would give him wisdom, guidance, and favor, leading him to trusted relationships and loyal partnerships.
• Pray for creativity and cultural sensitivity as they build relationships, that they would know how to love and engage others in meaningful and effective ways.
• Pray for their endurance and encouragement, that the Lord would strengthen their hearts and sustain them in this calling.