Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 27th 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MASKS ARE NOW OPTIONAL

PONCE OFFICER NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
Be on the lookout for the Ponce Nomination Forms in your email! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Staff or Session and we will be glad to help.

EASTER EGG HUNT SIGN-UP!
Our annual Easter egg hunt event is April 16th from 9:30am-11:30am and the Ponce Children's Committee needs your help. Below is a sign up for snacks and easter egg fillers. Please drop off supplies in the box at the children's church sign up table. More info to come on the actual event as it approaches. Sign-up here.

CALLING ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS
Are you a college student who will be in Atlanta for the summer? Do you know any college students who will be in Atlanta for the summer? Ponce is organizing plans to host a unique summer experience for students who are working or taking classes in Atlanta in June and July. We look forward to providing social gatherings, small groups, service opportunities, professional coaching and more! Contact Hace (hace@poncechurch.org) if you or someone you know might be interested!

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE | 4.15 | 7 PM

MEN’S MINISTRY DINNER | 4.23 | 6 PM | CHAPEL
Come for fellowship and thanksgiving as we appreciate Christ during this Easter Season for His sacrifice and also declaring all foods are clean to eat as we enjoy one of his finest creations in the form pulled pork BBQ. RSVP by April 17th so we can have a headcount to order enough food. Cost is $10 and can be paid the day of the event. RSVP to Clay Jeffreys at claygj@gmail.com.

WOMEN’S MINI-RETREAT | 4.30 | 9-1 PM | CHURCH
Calling ALL women (and any friends/neighbors you want to invite)! Join us as we welcome licensed counselor Mazi Robinson fora morning of praise, study, discussion and prayer around the topic: Understanding Anxiety. Cost is $30 a person (Scholarships are available if needed!). Lunch will be provided. Register via the link in the church email. Contact Larrie at larrierfisher@gmail.com with any questions. Sign-up here!!!

MAY SUNDAY SCHOOL: BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY

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

”Great Jehovah”

Before there was life, You were seated on high

From there You spoke time

And we were already on Your mind

Can't explain Your love

Without performance, You called us Your own

Couldn't afford it, so with Your blood

You bought our freedom

Can't explain Your love

Ruler of everything

Worthy of all that we could bring

You are Great Jehovah, all power is Yours

No song we sing, can explain Your love of me

You are, You are Great Jehovah all power

Great Jehovah, ruler of everything

Our defender, You are the Most High King

Great Jehovah, ruler of everything

Our defender, You are the Most High King

No word good enough,

No song loud enough to

Explain Your love,

It amazes us, Jehovah

No sin strong enough,

No weapon against us can

Contain Your love,

It's alive in us Jehovah

alive in us Jehovah

“Yahweh”

He is Holy and Reigns with Splendor

Our God, Yahweh

Sovereign King, He’s full of Wonder

Our God, Yahweh

Yahweh, Yahweh

Be Praised, Yahweh

Yahweh, Yahweh

Be Praised, Yahweh

His matchless Power, Infinite Wisdom

Our God, Yahweh

None can describe Him

Or compare to Him

Our God, Yahweh

Yahweh, Yahweh

Be Praised, Yahweh

Yahweh, Yahweh

Be Praised, Yahweh

Yours is the Kingdom

Yours is the Power

Our God, Yahweh

Behold the Glory, now and forever

Our God, Yahweh

Yahweh, Yahweh

Be Praised, Yahweh

Yahweh, Yahweh

Be Praised, Yahweh

“Better Is One Day”

How lovely is your dwelling place

Oh, Lord Almighty

For my soul longs and even faints for You

For here my heart is satisfied

Within Your presence

I sing beneath the shadow of Your wings

Better is one day in Your courts

Better is one day in Your house

Better is one day in Your courts

Than thousands elsewhere

One thing I ask and I would seek

To see Your beauty

To find You in the place Your glory dwells

One thing I ask and I would seek

To see Your beauty

To find You in the place Your glory dwells

My heart and flesh cry out

For You, the living God

Your Spirit's water to my soul

I've tasted and I've seen

Come once again to me

I will draw near to You

I will draw near to You

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - Kindergarten)

MEMBERSHIP TESTIMONY

Chris Sabota

PASTORAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | Esther 1 ESV

The King's Banquets

1 Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces, 2 in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel, 3 in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him, 4 while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days. 5 And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace. 6 There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones. 7 Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king. 8 And drinking was according to this edict: “There is no compulsion.” For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired. 9 Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Queen Vashti's Refusal

10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, 11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at. 12 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.

13 Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment, 14 the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom): 15 “According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?” 16 Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. 17 For the queen's behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’ 18 This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will say the same to all the king's officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty. 19 If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she. 20 So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.” 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed. 22 He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be master in his own household and speak according to the language of his people.

SERMON | Rev. T. Wills

Title: “Stuck In A False Story: It’s Tough To Be A Woman"

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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“Come Ye Sinners”

Come ye sinners poor and needy

Weak and wounded sick and sore

Jesus ready stands to save you

Full of pity love and power

Come ye thirsty come and welcome

God's free bounty glorify

True belief and true repentance

Every grace that brings you nigh

Chorus

I will arise and go to Jesus

He will embrace me in His arms

In the arms of my dear Savior

O there are ten thousand charms

Come ye weary heavy laden

Lost and ruined by the fall

If you tarry til’ you're better

You will never come at all

Chorus

Let not conscience make you linger

Nor of fitness fondly dream

All the fitness He requireth

Is to feel your need of Him

Chorus

COMMUNION

“How Great Is Our God”

Verse

The splendor of the King

Clothed in majesty

Let all the earth rejoice

All the earth rejoice

He wraps Himself in light

And darkness tries to hide

And trembles at His voice

And trembles at His voice

Chorus

How great is our God

Sing with me

How great is our God

And all will see how great

How great is our God

Verse 

And age to age He stands

And time is in His hands

Beginning and the End

Beginning and the End

The Godhead three in one

Father Spirit Son

The Lion and the Lamb

The Lion and the Lamb

Bridge

Name above all names

Worthy of all praise

My heart will sing

How great is our God

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