Ponce Worship Bulletin | May 29th 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PONCE SUMMER KICKBALL | THURSDAY NIGHTS
Contact Matt Horne for more information!

MEMBERSHIP ORIENTATION Contact Hace (hace@poncechurch.org) if interested in learning more about the membership process at Ponce!

STEPPING STONE | 5.28 | 8:30 AM
Feel free to come and worship with Stepping Stone. If you would like to bring a breakfast item, please contact Hace!

POST-CHURCH LUNCHEON | 6.12
Sign-up to bring something or help here!

MMM: PLAYGROUP | 6.15 | 9:30 AM Playdate time!! Moms! Join us at Chastain Park for a playdate! Contact Larrie for more information: larrierfisher@gmail.com.

SPOKEN WORD CONCERT | PONCE | 6.18 | 7:30 PM
Buy tickets here!

SUMMER WEDNESDAY BOOK CLUB | Chapel | 6.29 | 7:30 PM
Join Tolivar for our Summer Ponce Book Club. We'll be reading various books over the summer and starting with Jasmin L. Holmes' Mother to Son. Read it and join us for discussion! Our next date is 7.27 (Michelle Zauner's Crying In H-Mart).

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.

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

1 Peter 1:3-4

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

3 Bendito el Dios y Padre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, que según su grande misericordia nos hizo renacer para una esperanza viva, por la resurrección de Jesucristo de los muertos, 4 para una herencia incorruptible, incontaminada e inmarcesible, reservada en los cielos para vosotros,

“Sing Wherever I Go”

Chorus 

All my life All I know

God's been good  Good to my soul

Mountain high Valley low

I'm gonna sing wherever I go

Verse 

God is for me He's not against me

I will hold to the plans He has for me

When I'm broken He will fix me

I will call on the name of the Lord

Chorus

Verse 

He's my heartsong In my sorrow

He's my hope and my strength for tomorrow

When the storms rise All around me

I will call on the name of the Lord

(Bridge)

I got joy joy joy

Deep in my soul

I will sing sing sing

Wherever I go

Chorus

”Bueno Es Alabar”

Bueno es alabar oh Señor, Tu nombre

Darte  gloria honra y honor por siempre

Bueno es alabarte Jesús

Y gozarme en Tu poder

Chorus 

Porque grande eres Tú

Grandes son Tus obras

Porque grande eres Tú

Grande es Tu amor

Grande es Tu gloria

“You Are My King”

I'm forgiven because You were forsaken

I'm accepted, You were condemned

And I'm alive and well, Your Spirit is within me

Because You died and rose again

 

Chorus

Amazing love, how can it be

That You, my King, should die for me?

Amazing love, I know it's true

And it's my joy to honor You

In all I do, to honor You

 

Bridge

You are my King

Jesus, You are my King

You are my King

Chorus

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - Kindergarten)

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | ESTHER 6:14-7:1-10 ESV

Esther Reveals Haman's Plot

14 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.

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7 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.” 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?” 6 And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Haman Is Hanged

7 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. 8 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.” 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

SERMON | Rev. Tolivar Wills

Title: “The Rewriting of Our Story: Honor's True Home"

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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

“In Christ Alone”

In Christ alone my hope is found

He is my light my strength my song

This Cornerstone this solid Ground

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm

What heights of love what depths of peace

When fears are stilled when strivings cease

My Comforter my All in All

Here in the love of Christ I stand


In Christ alone who took on flesh

Fullness of God in helpless babe

This gift of love and righteousness

Scorned by the ones He came to save

Till on that cross as Jesus died

The wrath of God was satisfied

For every sin on Him was laid

Here in the death of Christ I live


There in the ground His body lay

Light of the world by darkness slain

Then bursting forth in glorious Day

Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory

Sin's curse has lost its grip on me

For I am His and He is mine

Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life no fear in death

This is the power of Christ in me

From life's first cry to final breath

Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell no scheme of man

Can ever pluck me from His hand

Till He returns or calls me home

Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

APOSTLES CREED

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to hell.

The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended to heaven and is seated

at the right hand of God the Father almighty.  From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,  the holy catholic* church, the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

*universal

COMMUNION

“Doxology”

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

Praise Him, all creatures here below

Praise Him above the Heavenly host

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

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*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