Ponce Worship Bulletin | June 12th 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 TODAY!

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

33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom 

and knowledge of God! How unsearchable 

are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,

    or who has been his counselor?”

35 “Or who has given a gift to him

    that he might be repaid?”

36 For from him and through him and 

to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Spanish

33.¡Profundidad de las riquezas, 

de la sabiduría y del conocimiento de Dios!

¡Cuán insondables son sus juicios

e inescrutables sus caminos!,

34 porque, ¿quién entendió la mente del Señor?

¿o quién fue su consejero?

35 ¿Quién le dio a él primero, para que le 

fuera recompensado?,

36 porque de él, por él y para él son todas las cosas.

A él sea la gloria por los siglos. Amén.

“Trading My Sorrows”

I'm trading my sorrows

And I'm trading my shame

And I'm laying it down

For the joy of the Lord

 

And I'm trading my sickness

And I'm trading my pain

I'm  laying it down

For the joy of the Lord

 

Chorus

Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes yes Lord

Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes yes Lord

Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes yes Lord

Amen

 

Bridge

I'm pressed but not crushed Persecuted, not abandoned

Struck down but not destroyed

And I am blessed beyond the curse For His promise will endure

That His joy is going to be my strength

 

Bridge 2

Though my sorrows may last for the night

His joy comes with the morning

Chorus

”Promises”

Verse

God of Abraham You're the God of covenant

And of faithful promises

Time and time again  You have proven

You'll do just what You said

 

Pre- Chorus

Though the storms may come and the winds may blow

I'll remain steadfast

And let my heart learn, when You speak a word

It will come to pass

Chorus

Great is Your faithfulness to me

Great is Your faithfulness to me

From the rising sun to the setting same

I will praise Your name

Great is Your faithfulness to me

 

 Verse 

God from age to age Though the earth may pass away

Your word remains the same, yeah

Your history can prove There's nothing You can't do

You're faithful and true

  

Pre-Chorus

Though the storms may come and the winds may blow

I'll remain steadfast

And let my heart learn, when You speak a word

It will come to pass

 

Chorus

Bridge

I put my faith in Jesus

My anchor to the ground

My hope and firm foundation

He'll never let me down

Chorus

“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, glorified

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

Oh, there are ten thousand charms

Come ye weary, heavy laden

Lost and ruined by the fall

If you tarry till 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 fill your need of Him

Chorus

I will arise and go to Jesus

He will embrace me in His arms

In the arms of my dear Savior

Oh, there are ten thousand charms

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - Kindergarten)

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | ESTHER 9:1-19 ESV

The Jews Destroy Their Enemies

9 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them. 2 The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples. 3 All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. 4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful. 5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them. 6 In Susa the citadel itself the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men, 7 and also killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha 8 and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha 9 and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder.

11 That very day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was reported to the king. 12 And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.” 13 And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.” 14 So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.

16 Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder. 17 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.

SERMON | Rev. Buddy Eades

Title: “Living into a New Story: Fighting The Lord's Battle the Lord's Way"

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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

“Precious is the Blood”

Oh the blood redeeming blood,

Jesus blood shed for me.

Oh the blood saving blood,

Cleansing blood from calvary.

Oh oh lamb of God

Crucified for my sins

He bled and died and

Oh how precious is the blood.

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

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*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

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DEACONS

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