Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 12th 2023

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHURCH LUNCHEON | 3.19 Ponce will provide Publix chicken and drinks. Bring and family favorite or a heritage dish to share here!

CITY FORUM | 3.19 | 6 PM | CITY CHURCH EASTSIDE All youth are welcome to join us at a youth event with CityChurch Eastisde on Racial Oppression, Racial Reconciliation and the Gospel. Reach out to Tolivar at tolivar@poncechurch.org.

CHURCH WORKDAY | 3.25 | 9:30-12:30 PM Let’s help our deacons spruce up the church! Bring your gardening gloves and favorite paintbrush! Lunch provided.  

SAVE THE DATE: MEN'S RETREAT | 4.14-15 RSVP here!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Ponce is excited to begin a new communal subscription with the Daily Prayer Project! Feel free to download the new Lent Guide located in the weekly email or grab a copy on the back table.

COLLEGE STUDENTS! SUMMER @ PONCE! Figuring out summer plans? If you will be in Atlanta working, taking class, or doing anything else let us know! We will have opportunities to connect with other students, be discipled and serve the city. Email Pastor Hace (hace@poncechurch.org) if you want more information.

CONNECT VIA TEXT Ponce is now sending a once-a-week text with the latest announcement. Text: “connect” to (678) 252-5571 to get on the list! Never miss another event!

WEEKLY NEIGHBORHOOD BIBLE STUDY | 8 AM | THUR + FRI
We are looking for bible study leaders for our new weekly Neighborhood Bible Study. Reach out to Hace if you are interested.

WELCOME

INVOCATION

CALL TO WORSHIP

Call to Worship: Psalm 105:1-4 (bilingual)

Call (Leader):

Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;

make known his deeds among the peoples!

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Alabad a Jehová, invocad su nombre;

Dad a conocer sus obras en los pueblos.

Response (All):

Sing to him, sing praises to him;

tell of all his wondrous works!

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Cantadle, cantadle salmos;

Hablad de todas sus maravillas.

Call (Leader):

Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

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Gloriaos en su santo nombre;

Alégrese el corazón de los que buscan a Jehová.

Response (All):

Seek the Lord and his strength;

seek his presence continually!

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Buscad a Jehová y su poder;

Buscad siempre su rostro.

“Nombre No Hay”

“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

CONFESSION OF FAITH

Litany of the Disciples of the Servant (from Daily Prayer Project):

Servant-Christ, help us to follow

you into the place of quiet retreat,

to intercede for the confused, the despairing, the anxiety-driven,

to prepare ourselves for costly service with you

All: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant.

Help us to follow you on the road to Jerusalem,

to set our faces firmly against friendly suggestions for a safe, expedient life,

to embrace boldly the way of self- offering, of life given for others’ gain

All: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant.

Help us to follow you into the city,

to claim its whole life for God whose image men and women bear,

to confront the ambitions of the power-hungry, the inhuman orthodoxy of the legalist, with the startling message of your present action, your living power

All: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant.

“Heal Us, Emmanuel”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

SERMON TEXT | Song of solomon 3:1-5 ESV

The Bride's Dream

3 On my bed by night
I sought him whom my soul loves;
    I sought him, but found him not.
2 I will rise now and go about the city,
    in the streets and in the squares;
I will seek him whom my soul loves.
    I sought him, but found him not.
3 The watchmen found me
    as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
4 Scarcely had I passed them
    when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
    until I had brought him into my mother's house,
    and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
    by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.

SERMON

Title: “The Fragility and Redemption of Desire”

Speaker: Rev. Tolivar Wills

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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

“Jesus At The Center”

CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE

Pastor: For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.

All: For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

Pastor: Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So, I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

All: Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

COMMUNION

“Promises”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

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