Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 19th 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.  

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE | 4.7 | 7 PM

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

“How Great Is Our God”

“Tu Amor”

CONFESSION OF FAITH

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

Litany of the Disciples of the Servant Servant-Christ, help us to follow you into the judgment hall, to stand mocked and condemned for daring to speak directly of divine forgiveness, daring to claim God’s personal commissioning, daring to disrupt the plans of unscrupulous leaders for the control of the masses; to stand for those whose right to stand has been usurped: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant. Help us to follow you even unto the cross, to share in carrying your cross like Simon the African, to recognize our life in your death, our hope in your self-spending love, to die to all within us that is not born of your love: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant.

“Arise O God”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

“Hymn of Heaven”

SERMON TEXT | Song of solomon 3:6-5:1 ESV

Solomon Arrives for the Wedding

6 What is that coming up from the wilderness
    like columns of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
    with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
7 Behold, it is the litter of Solomon!
Around it are sixty mighty men,
    some of the mighty men of Israel,
8 all of them wearing swords
    and expert in war,
each with his sword at his thigh,
    against terror by night.
9 King Solomon made himself a carriage
    from the wood of Lebanon.
10 He made its posts of silver,
    its back of gold, its seat of purple;
its interior was inlaid with love
    by the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go out, O daughters of Zion,
    and look upon King Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother crowned him
    on the day of his wedding,
    on the day of the gladness of his heart.

Solomon Admires His Bride's Beauty

He

4 Behold, you are beautiful, my love,
    behold, you are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
    behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
    leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes
    that have come up from the washing,
all of which bear twins,
    and not one among them has lost its young.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
    and your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
    behind your veil.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David,
    built in rows of stone;
on it hang a thousand shields,
    all of them shields of warriors.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    twins of a gazelle,
    that graze among the lilies.
6 Until the day breathes
    and the shadows flee,
I will go away to the mountain of myrrh
    and the hill of frankincense.
7 You are altogether beautiful, my love;
    there is no flaw in you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;
    come with me from Lebanon.
Depart from the peak of Amana,
    from the peak of Senir and Hermon,
from the dens of lions,
    from the mountains of leopards.

9 You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;
    you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes,
    with one jewel of your necklace.
10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
    How much better is your love than wine,
    and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
11 Your lips drip nectar, my bride;
    honey and milk are under your tongue;
    the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
12 A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
    a spring locked, a fountain sealed.
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates
    with all choicest fruits,
    henna with nard,
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
    with all trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
    with all choice spices—
15 a garden fountain, a well of living water,
    and flowing streams from Lebanon.

16 Awake, O north wind,
    and come, O south wind!
Blow upon my garden,
    let its spices flow.

Together in the Garden of Love

She

Let my beloved come to his garden,
    and eat its choicest fruits.

He

5 I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,
    I gathered my myrrh with my spice,
    I ate my honeycomb with my honey,
    I drank my wine with my milk.

Others

Eat, friends, drink,
    and be drunk with love!

SERMON

Title: “The Consummation of Desire”

Speaker: Rev. Hace Cargo

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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

“Great Are You Lord”

COMMUNION

“O Give Thanks (O Dar Gracias)”

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