Ponce Worship Bulletin | January 9th 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUE TO THE CITY-WIDE MASK MANDATE, PONCE WILL NOW REQUIRE INDIVIDUALS TO WEAR MASKS

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS SERVICE PROJECT | 1.29 | 8:30 AM
Join us to serve our neighbors on Saturday morning, January 29th. Meet at Ponce Church at 8:30 and we will take some food, socks and winter clothes to neighbors on the street. Afterwards we will grab breakfast together nearby.

FEBRUARY SUNDAY SCHOOL SERIES: WORK
Homework. Housework and yard work. Volunteer work. Working out to stay in shape. Not to mention paid work in its many forms. The vast majority of our waking lives are spent working. 
We tend to experience some forms of work as necessary evils while others are so enjoyable and fulfilling that they can become addictive. Unfortunately, we participate in many forms of work as if they are unrelated or even opposed to God's work in the world and in us. Perhaps that doesn't have to be the case? 

Join us for a four-week Sunday school class in February to explore a Christian understanding of work. In this class we will explore God's original intention for work, the ways our experience of work have been affected by sin, how God uses work redemptively (in us and through us), and how we as Christians should evaluate dynamics of gifting and calling in the work we choose to do. 

PONCE MARRIAGE RETREAT | 2.11-12

MEMBERSHIP ORIENTATION | 3.12
Let Hace know if you are interested.  

SIMEON TRUST MARCH WORKSHOP | 3.17-19
Westminster is excited to be partnering with the Charles Simeon Trust to host a Workshop on Biblical Exposition this coming March ("Teaching the Epistles: A Workshop for Women in Ministry"). Registration is now open on the website: www.simeontrust.org.

PARKING
If you are a member or regular attender, please do not park in the parking lot. Please park along the back wall at the BP, along the street on Ponce and Piedmont, or at Fastsigns across from Publix. See this map for more reference. 

WELCOME  


INVOCATION


CALL TO WORSHIP

 

“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

Come Thou fount of every blessing

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace

Streams of mercy never ceasing

Call for songs of loudest praise

Teach me some melodious sonnet

Sung by flaming tongues above

Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it

Mount of Thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer

Here by Thy great help I've come

And I hope by Thy good pleasure

Safely to arrive at home

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wandering from the fold of God

He to rescue me from danger

Interposed His precious blood

(Precious blood)

Oh, that day when freed from sinning

I shall see Thy lovely face

Clothed then in blood washed linen

How I'll sing Thy sovereign grace

Come my Lord, no longer tarry

Take my ransomed soul away

Send Thine angels now to carry

Me to realms of endless days

Oh, to grace how great a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be

Let Thy goodness like a fetter

Bind my wandering heart to Thee

Prone to wander, Lord I feel it

Prone to leave the God I love

Here's my heart, oh take and seal it

Seal it for Thy courts above

Here's my heart

Oh take and seal it

Seal it for Thy courts above

”Graves Into Gardens”

I searched the world

But it couldn't fill me

Man's empty praise and treasures that fade

Are never enough

Then You came along

And put me back together

And every desire is now satisfied

Here in Your love (hey)

Oh, there's nothing better than You

There's nothing better than You

Lord, there's nothing

Nothing is better than You

I'm not afraid

To show You my weakness

My failures and flaws, Lord, You've seen them all

And You still call me friend

'Cause the God of the mountain

Is the God of the valley

There's not a place Your mercy and grace

Won't find me again

Oh, there's nothing better than You

There's nothing better than You

Lord, there's nothing

Nothing is better than You

You turn mourning to dancing

You give beauty for ashes

You turn shame into glory

You're the only one who can (come on)

You turn graves into garden

You turn bones into armies

You turn seas into highways

You're the only one who can

Oh, there's nothing better than You

There's nothing better than You

Lord, there's nothing

Nothing is better than You

”Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me”

What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer

There is no more for heaven now to give

He is my joy, my righteousness, and freedom

My steadfast love, my deep and boundless peace

To this I hold, my hope is only Jesus

For my life is wholly bound to His

Oh how strange and divine, I can sing: all is mine

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

The night is dark but I am not forsaken

For by my side, the Saviour He will stay

I labour on in weakness and rejoicing

For in my need, His power is displayed

To this I hold, my Shepherd will defend me

Through the deepest valley He will lead

Oh the night has been won, and I shall overcome

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

No fate I dread, I know I am forgiven

The future sure, the price it has been paid

For Jesus bled and suffered for my pardon

And He was raised to overthrow the grave

To this I hold, my sin has been defeated

Jesus now and ever is my plea

Oh the chains are released, I can sing: I am free

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

With every breath I long to follow Jesus

For He has said that He will bring me home

And day by day I know He will renew me

Until I stand with joy before the throne

To this I hold, my hope is only Jesus

All the glory evermore to Him

When the race is complete, still my lips shall repeat

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

To this I hold, my hope is only Jesus

All the glory evermore to Him

When the race is complete, still my lips shall repeat

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

When the race is complete, still my lips shall repeat

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - Kindergarten)

PASTORAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | 1 PETER 2:18-25 (ESV)

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 19 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. 21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

SERMON | REV. T. WILLS

Title: “Submission in Light of Eternity: Working For Higher Wage"

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

*Parents can pick up their children from Children’s Church

“You’ve Been So Faithful”

As I look back over my life

I can see, how Your love is guiding me

Even though I've done wrong

You never left me alone

But You forgave me

And You kept on blessing

This I recall to my mind

Therefore I have hope

It is because of Your mercies

that we are not consumed

Because thy compassions fail not,

They are new every morning

Great is Thy faithfulness

Great is Thy faithfulness

Chorus:

You've been, Lord You've been so faithful

You've been, Lord You've been so faithful

Bridge:

I can never repay You Lord for what You done for me

How You loosed my shackles and you set me free.

How You made a way out of no way

Turned my darkness into day

You've been my joy in the time of sorrow

Hope for my tomorrow

Peace in the time of storm

Strength when I'm weak and worn

COMMUNION

“I Believe”

Jehovah, You, I trust in You

O Lord

Jehovah, You, I trust in You

I believe, I believe

You are the God of miracles

You are the God of wonder

You are the God all powerful

I believe, I believe

I believe, I believe

I believe, I believe

So long, bye bye

So long, bye bye

Goodbye to my pain and my sorrow

So long, bye bye

So long, bye bye

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Monday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Jon Gilliam

  • Charlton Hughes

  • Chris Sobata