Ponce Worship Bulletin | June 11th 2023

ANNOUNCEMENTS

SUMMER BOOK CLUB | 3rd WEDNESDAYS | 7 PM Join us on Zoom or in-person (Ponce Chapel) for Summer Book Club. Join Pastor Tolivar as we dive into one of the most influential Christian thinkers and apologists of the 20th century in C.S. Lewis. 6.21 Surprised by Joy. 7.19 Mere Christianity. 8.16 Till We Have Faces.

INTRO TO PONCE | 6.18 + 6.25 | 9:15 AM Join us for two mornings as we explore what it means to be a member at Ponce. This does not obligate you towards membership. However, it is the first step towards membership. 

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Easter Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“Holy Is The Lord”

“Te Alabaré Mi Buen Jesús”

“Yet Not I But Christ In Me”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | Ecclesiastes 3 (NIV)

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

15 Whatever is has already been,
    and what will be has been before;
    and God will call the past to account.[b]

16 And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
    in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

17 I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment
    both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
    a time to judge every deed.”

18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[c]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

SERMON

Series: "Summer under the Sun: Wisdom in Ecclesiastes”

“You Deserve It”

CONFESSION OF SIN

Confession: O Lord, who

has mercy upon all,

take away from me my sins,

and mercifully kindle in me

the fire of your Holy Spirit.

Take away from me the heart of stone,

and give me a heart of flesh,

a heart to love and adore you,

a heart to delight in you,

to follow and enjoy you,

for Christ’s sake, Amen.

Assurance: I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you

a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. (Ezekiel 36:25-27)

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COMMUNION

“Better Is One Day”

BENEDICTION

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CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Jon Gilliam

  • Charlton Hughes

  • Chris Sobata