Ponce Worship Bulletin | July 9th 2023

ANNOUNCEMENTS

OLD FOURTH WARD PLAYDATE | 7.14 | 9:30 AM
All families are welcome to playdate at the splash pad at Old Fourth Ward Park.

PONCE YOUTH GATHERING | 7.15 | 5 PM All kids (ages 3rd to 8th grade) are welcome at the church for pizza, games, and a short devo from our RUF pastor, George Hamm! July Book Club - July 19: Mere Christianity

INDELIBLE GRACE CONCERT | 7.15 | 7 PM
An evening of hymns and their stories from Indelible Grace Music, featuring Kevin & Cooper Twit at Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church. Purchase $5 tickets online.

SUMMER BOOK CLUB | 7.19 | 7 PM Join us on Zoom (link here) or in-person at Ponce 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. 7.19 Mere Christianity. 8.16 Till We Have Faces.

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost 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

“Who Is Like the Lord”

“Tu Amor”

ConFESSION OF FAITH

We believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of the heavens and the earth; Creator of all people and all cultures; Creator of all tongues and races.

We believe in Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord, God made flesh in a person for all humanity, God made flesh in an age for all the ages, God made flesh in one culture for all cultures, God made flesh in love and grace for all creation.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, through whom God incarnate in Jesus Christ makes his presence known in our peoples and our cultures; through whom God, Creator of all that exists, gives us power to become new creatures; whose infinite gifts make us one people: the body of Christ.

We believe in the church universal because it is a sign of God’s reign, whose faithfulness is shown in its many hues where all the colors paint a single landscape, where all tongues sing the same praise.

We believe in the reign of God—the day of the Great Fiesta when all the colors of creation will form a harmonious rainbow, when all peoples will join in joyful banquet, when all tongues of the universe will sing the same song. And because we believe, we commit ourselves: to believe for those who do not believe, to love for those who do not love, until the day when hope becomes reality.

“Isaiah’s Song

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | EcclesiasteS 2:18-26, 3:9-13, 5:18-20

2:18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? 23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

3:9 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.

5:18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.19 Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God. 20 They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.

SERMON

Title: "Summer Under the Sun: The Gift of Joyful Toil”

Speaker: Pastor Cargo

“In Christ Alone”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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COMMUNION

“Echo (In Jesus’ Name)”

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