Ponce Worship Bulletin | June 5th 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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!

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!

POST-CHURCH LUNCHEON | 6.12
Church will provide chicken and drinks! 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!

WOMEN’S NIGHT | 6.21 | 7:30 PM Calling all ladies! Join us for drinks and dessert at Rachael Panik's home on Tuesday evening, June 21st at 7:30 PM. This gathering is limited to 10 attendees, so signup fast to secure a spot and bring your favorite drink! Find the signup link in the weekly email plus full location details. Hope to see you there!

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

Romans 5:6-10

6 For while we were still weak,

at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

7 For one will scarcely die for a

righteous person—though perhaps

for a good person one   would dare even to die—

8 but God shows his love for us

in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

6 Porque Cristo, cuando aún

éramos débiles, a su tiempo murió por los impíos.

7 Ciertamente, apenas morirá alguno

por un justo; con todo, pudiera ser

que alguno osara morir por el bueno.

8 Mas Dios muestra su amor para con nosotros,

en que siendo aún pecadores, Cristo murió por nosotros

9 Since, therefore, we have now

been justified by his blood, much more

shall we be saved by him

from the wrath of God.

9 Pues mucho más, estando

ya justificados en su sangre, por él seremos

salvos de la ira.

10 For if while we were enemies

we were reconciled to God by the

death of his Son, much more,

now that we are reconciled, shall we

be saved by his life.

10 Porque si siendo enemigos,

fuimos reconciliados con Dios por

la muerte de su Hijo, mucho más, estando

reconciliados, seremos salvos por su vida.

“Graves Into Gardens”

I searched the world

But it couldn't fill me

Man's empty praise

And treasures that fade

Are never enough

 

Then You came along

And put me back together

And every desire

Is now satisfied

Here in Your love (hey)

 

Chorus

Oh, there's nothing better than You

There's nothing better than You

Lord, there's nothing

Nothing is better than You

  

I'm not afraid

To show You my weakness

My failures and flaws

Lord, You've seen 'em all

And You still call me friend

 

'Cause the God of the mountain

Is the God of the valley

There's not a place

Your mercy and grace

Won't find me again

 

Chorus

 

Bridge

You turn mourning to dancing

You give beauty for ashes

You turn shame into glory

You're the only one who can

 

You turn graves into garden

You turn bones into armies

You turn seas into highways

 

Chorus

”Te alabaré mi buen Jesús”

Eres tu la única razón

De mi adoración oh Jesús!

Eres tu la esperanza 

Que anhele tener oh Jesús!

 

Confíe en ti me has ayudado

Tu salvación me has regalado

Hoy hay gozo en mi corazón

Con mi canto te alabaré

 

Te alabaré, te glorificare, te alabaré mi buen Jesús

Te alabaré, te glorificare, te alabaré mi buen Jesús 

 

En todo tiempo te alabaré, en todo tiempo te adorare

En todo tiempo te alabaré, en todo tiempo te adorare

 

Te alabaré, te glorificare, te alabaré mi buen Jesús 

Te alabaré, te glorificare, te alabaré mi buen Jesús 

“10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)”

Chorus

Bless the Lord O my soul

O my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

 

The sun comes up it's a new day dawning

It's time to sing Your song again

Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me

Let me be singing when the evening comes

 

CHORUS

 

You're rich in love and You're slow to anger

Your name is great and Your heart is kind

For all Your goodness I will keep on singing

Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

 

CHORUS

  

And on that day when my strength is failing

The end draws near and my time has come

Still my soul will sing Your praise unending

Ten thousand years and then forevermore

 

CHORUS

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - Kindergarten)

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | ESTHER 8 ESV

Esther Saves the Jews

8 On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. 2 And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

3 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 4 When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king. 5 And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. 6 For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. 8 But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.”

9 The king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language. 10 And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud, 11 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods, 12 on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 13 A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. 14 So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.

15 Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. 16 The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. 17 And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

SERMON | Rev. Tolivar Wills

Title: “Living Into a New Story: From Victim to Mediator"

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

“Jesus Messiah”

He became sin, who knew no sin

That we might become His righteousness

He humbled himself and carried the cross

Love so amazing, love so amazing

 

Chorus

Jesus Messiah, name above all names

Blessed redeemer, Emmanuel

The rescue for sinners,

 the ransom from Heaven

Jesus Messiah, Lord of all

 

His body the bread, his blood the wine

Broken and poured out all for love

The whole earth trembled, and the veil was torn

Love so amazing, love so amazing, 

 

Chorus

 

Bridge

All our hope is in You, all our hope is in You

All the glory to You, God, the light of the world

 

Jesus Messiah, name above all names

Blessed redeemer, Emmanuel

The rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven

Jesus Messiah, Lord of all

CONFESSION OF FAITH

There is but one only living and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions, immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute, working all things according to the counsel of His own immutable and most righteous will, for His own glory, most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him; and withal most just and terrible in His judgments; hating all sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty.

-WCF (Westminster Confession of Faith), 1.1

COMMUNION

“God Is Good”

May your strug-gles keep you near the cross

And may your trou-bles show that you need God

And may your batt-les end the way they should

And may your bad days prove that God is good

And may your whole life prove that God is good

May your bad days prove that God is good

May your whole life prove that God is good

See, may your bad days prove that God is good

May your whole life prove that God is good

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

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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