Ponce Worship Bulletin | August 4th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY DIRECTOR ROLE
We are taking applicants for the new Children’s Ministry Director role. If you are interested or know someone who would be interested in this position, please contact Hace Cargo (hace@poncechurch.org).

NEW PARKING
Praise the Lord! We have 20 new parking spots at the Piedmont USPS. Address: 570 Piedmont Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30308. 

FALL SERMON SERIES: EPHESIANS
Beginning in September. 

CHICKEN SUNDAY
8.25. Details to come. 

TAKE THE COYLES A MEAL
The Coyles had a new baby! Let's help them as they adjust by taking them a meal or sending a giftcard. For the Coyle's meal train click here.

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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 | 12 PM | 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

“How Great Is Our God”

“Ancient of Days”

“Graves Into Gardens”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | 1 John 1:5–2:6

Walking in the Light

5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Christ Our Advocate

2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

SERMON

“Stay in Light Like Your Life Depends On It “

“Promises“

“At Calvary“

Confession of SIN

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“Ancient of Days”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | July 28th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“He Reigns”

“Emmanuel”

“Throne Room Song”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

MISSION UPDATE

With Fraser Perritt

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Psalm 13

How Long, O Lord?

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

13 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
    How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I take counsel in my soul
    and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
    light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”
    lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
    my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord,
    because he has dealt bountifully with me.

SERMON

“Take It to The Lord in Prayer“

Confession of SIN

“Holy Forever”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

“Nadie Como Tú”

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | July 14th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS


MEN’S SUMMER COOKOUT
7.19. 7PM. Learn more or sign-up here!

DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. Let's have a short hangout from 9:30am-11am at the new Westside Park. There's plenty of parking and a cool playground and walking paths. Macy's bringing donuts, but  looking for 1-2 other volunteers who would also like to bring donuts, baked goods, or coffee!

CHICKEN SUNDAY
7.21. Sign-up here to bring a side or salad!

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“This is Amazing Grace”

“Tu Amor”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Romans 1:8-32

Longing to Go to Rome

8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you 10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— 12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[a] that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians,[b] both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,[c] as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”[d]

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[e] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

SERMON

“Creation: Image of Divine Things“

“I Speak Jesus”

“How Great Thou Art”

“Risen”

Confession of sin

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | July 7th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS


MEN’S SUMMER COOKOUT
7.19. 7PM. Learn more or sign-up here!

DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. Let's have a short hangout from 9:30am-11am at the new Westside Park. There's plenty of parking and a cool playground and walking paths. Macy's bringing donuts, but  looking for 1-2 other volunteers who would also like to bring donuts, baked goods, or coffee!

PONCE WOMEN SUMMER WORKOUTS
Every Wednesday at 10am until July 24th. Macy will be teaching a 45 minute, no equipment barre-inspired workout. Just bring a yoga mat! If you don't have one, we'll have extras. We'll have childcare for $18 an hour (no matter how many kids you bring) or free some weeks if we have volunteers. This is low-impact and all levels are welcome! Definitely sign up in advance if you'll need childcare. This is a low-stakes opportunity to invite friends and nonbelievers to come with you to the church.

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“How Great Is Our God”

“Good Good Father”

“Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Matthew 28:16-20

The Great Commission

16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

SERMON

“Oceans”

CONFESSION OF FAITH

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“Jesus Messiah“

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | June 30th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS


PONCE WOMEN SUMMER WORKOUTS
Every Wednesday at 10am until July 24th. Macy will be teaching a 45 minute, no equipment barre-inspired workout. Just bring a yoga mat! If you don't have one, we'll have extras. We'll have childcare for $18 an hour (no matter how many kids you bring) or free some weeks if we have volunteers. This is low-impact and all levels are welcome! Definitely sign up in advance if you'll need childcare. This is a low-stakes opportunity to invite friends and nonbelievers to come with you to the church.

DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. Let's have a short hangout from 9:30am-11am at the new Westside Park. There's plenty of parking and a cool playground and walking paths. Macy's bringing donuts, but  looking for 1-2 other volunteers who would also like to bring donuts, baked goods, or coffee!

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“Holy Holy Holy”

“Great Are You Lord”

“Goodness of God”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture

SERMON

Guest Speaker: Rev. Howard Brown

“I Wonder”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“Yahweh“

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | June 23rd 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DESSERT NIGHT
6.23. Join us at Kim Eide's home in West End for a dessert and wine potluck. Sign up sheet and more info will be on the church email soon. Another great opportunity to invite friends or just meet new women in the church.

PONCE WOMEN SUMMER WORKOUTS
Every Wednesday at 10am until July 24th. Macy will be teaching a 45 minute, no equipment barre-inspired workout. Just bring a yoga mat! If you don't have one, we'll have extras. We'll have childcare for $18 an hour (no matter how many kids you bring) or free some weeks if we have volunteers. This is low-impact and all levels are welcome! Definitely sign up in advance if you'll need childcare. This is a low-stakes opportunity to invite friends and nonbelievers to come with you to the church.

DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. Let's have a short hangout from 9:30am-11am at the new Westside Park. There's plenty of parking and a cool playground and walking paths. Macy's bringing donuts, but  looking for 1-2 other volunteers who would also like to bring donuts, baked goods, or coffee!

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“Hallelujah”

“Aleluya”

“Holy Forever”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | John 15:1-11

I Am the True Vine

15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

SERMON

Psalm 80

“I’ve Got Joy”

“Shalom”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

Confession of sin

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | June 16th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS


PONCE WOMEN SUMMER WORKOUTS
Every Wednesday at 10am until July 24th. Macy will be teaching a 45 minute, no equipment barre-inspired workout. Just bring a yoga mat! If you don't have one, we'll have extras. We'll have childcare for $18 an hour (no matter how many kids you bring) or free some weeks if we have volunteers. This is low-impact and all levels are welcome! Definitely sign up in advance if you'll need childcare. This is a low-stakes opportunity to invite friends and nonbelievers to come with you to the church.

PROVIDING AND SERVING LUNCH WITH SUMMERHILL
6.18. 11-1 PM. Join us on Tuesday, June 18th as we provide and serve lunch for the kids and staff at Summerhill's Summer Youth Camp. Food can be prepped ahead of time and dropped off OR ingredients brought and prepared at Summerhill's onsite kitchen beginning at 11 AM. Volunteers can stay to serve food at 12:15 for the lunch hour. This is a great opportunity for those with flexible summer schedules and/or parents who can bring along their older children to serve as well! Please reach out to Larrie Fisher with any questions (706-414-6818) or to schedule food drop-off ahead of time. Sign-up here to bring food/serve on day of: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E44ACAE2BA7FB6-49856072-providing#/

DESSERT NIGHT
6.23. Join us at Kim Eide's home in West End for a dessert and wine potluck. Sign up sheet and more info will be on the church email soon. Another great opportunity to invite friends or just meet new women in the church.

DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. Let's have a short hangout from 9:30am-11am at the new Westside Park. There's plenty of parking and a cool playground and walking paths. Macy's bringing donuts, but  looking for 1-2 other volunteers who would also like to bring donuts, baked goods, or coffee!

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“Better Than Life”

“Hosanna (En las Alturas)”

“Way Maker”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture

SERMON

Guest Speaker: Alex Villasana

“O What Glory Is This?”

“Chasing After You”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

NO COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | June 9th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS


PONCE WOMEN SUMMER WORKOUTS
Every Wednesday at 10am until July 24th. Macy will be teaching a 45 minute, no equipment barre-inspired workout. Just bring a yoga mat! If you don't have one, we'll have extras. We'll have childcare for $18 an hour (no matter how many kids you bring) or free some weeks if we have volunteers. This is low-impact and all levels are welcome! Definitely sign up in advance if you'll need childcare. This is a low-stakes opportunity to invite friends and nonbelievers to come with you to the church.

PROVIDING AND SERVING LUNCH WITH SUMMERHILL
6.18. 11-1 PM. Join us on Tuesday, June 18th as we provide and serve lunch for the kids and staff at Summerhill's Summer Youth Camp. Food can be prepped ahead of time and dropped off OR ingredients brought and prepared at Summerhill's onsite kitchen beginning at 11 AM. Volunteers can stay to serve food at 12:15 for the lunch hour. This is a great opportunity for those with flexible summer schedules and/or parents who can bring along their older children to serve as well! Please reach out to Larrie Fisher with any questions (706-414-6818) or to schedule food drop-off ahead of time. Sign-up here to bring food/serve on day of: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E44ACAE2BA7FB6-49856072-providing#/

DESSERT NIGHT
6.23. Join us at Kim Eide's home in West End for a dessert and wine potluck. Sign up sheet and more info will be on the church email soon. Another great opportunity to invite friends or just meet new women in the church.

DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. Let's have a short hangout from 9:30am-11am at the new Westside Park. There's plenty of parking and a cool playground and walking paths. Macy's bringing donuts, but  looking for 1-2 other volunteers who would also like to bring donuts, baked goods, or coffee!

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

INvocation

“Ancient of Days”

“Precious Jesus”

“Who Is Like the Lord”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

“Jireh”

Scripture | Psalms 35

Great Is the Lord

Of David.

35 Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me;
    fight against those who fight against me!
2 Take hold of shield and buckler
    and rise for my help!
3 Draw the spear and javelin[a]
    against my pursuers!
Say to my soul,
    “I am your salvation!”

4 Let them be put to shame and dishonor
    who seek after my life!
Let them be turned back and disappointed
    who devise evil against me!
5 Let them be like chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!

7 For without cause they hid their net for me;
    without cause they dug a pit for my life.[b]
8 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
    let him fall into it—to his destruction!

9 Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
    exulting in his salvation.
10 All my bones shall say,
    “O Lord, who is like you,
delivering the poor
    from him who is too strong for him,
    the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

11 Malicious[c] witnesses rise up;
    they ask me of things that I do not know.
12 They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.[d]
13 But I, when they were sick—
    I wore sackcloth;
    I afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed with head bowed[e] on my chest.
14     I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
    I bowed down in mourning.

15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
    they gathered together against me;
wretches whom I did not know
    tore at me without ceasing;
16 like profane mockers at a feast,[f]
    they gnash at me with their teeth.

17 How long, O Lord, will you look on?
    Rescue me from their destruction,
    my precious life from the lions!
18 I will thank you in the great congregation;
    in the mighty throng I will praise you.

19 Let not those rejoice over me
    who are wrongfully my foes,
and let not those wink the eye
    who hate me without cause.
20 For they do not speak peace,
    but against those who are quiet in the land
    they devise words of deceit.
21 They open wide their mouths against me;
    they say, “Aha, Aha!
    Our eyes have seen it!”

22 You have seen, O Lord; be not silent!
    O Lord, be not far from me!
23 Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication,
    for my cause, my God and my Lord!
24 Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,
    according to your righteousness,
    and let them not rejoice over me!
25 Let them not say in their hearts,
    “Aha, our heart's desire!”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

26 Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether
    who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
    who magnify themselves against me!

27 Let those who delight in my righteousness
    shout for joy and be glad
    and say evermore,
“Great is the Lord,
    who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
28 Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness
    and of your praise all the day long.

SERMON

“Great Are You Lord”

CONFESSION OF SIN

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

“Echo”

“Aleluya”

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | May 19th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Deacon and Deaconess Nominations: Members are welcome to nominate new potential deacons and deaconesses.  Learn more about the process and nominate here.

PONCE WOMEN SUMMER WORKOUTS
6.5. 10 AM. Join us Wednesdays for a barre-style class led by Macy Schell at Ponce. Childcare is available if needed and RSVP is required each week. Sign-up here.
CHICKEN SUNDAY
6.9. Sign-up to come.
DESSERT NIGHT
6.23. All women are welcome at Kim Eide’s home! Details to come. 
DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. All women are welcome! Hosted by Macy Schell at Westside Park. Details to come.

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“I Thank God”

“Our God”

“Holy Ghost”

Confession of faith

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Lamentations 1, 2 and 4

SERMON

“Great Are You Lord”

CONFESSION OF SIN

“Holy Is the Lord”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | May 12th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Deacon and Deaconess Nominations: Members are welcome to nominate new potential deacons and deaconesses.  Learn more about the process and nominate here.

PONCE WOMEN SUMMER WORKOUTS
6.5. 10 AM. Join us Wednesdays for a barre-style class led by Macy Schell at Ponce. Childcare is available if needed and RSVP is required each week. Sign-up here.
CHICKEN SUNDAY
6.9. Sign-up to come.
DESSERT NIGHT
6.23. All women are welcome at Kim Eide’s home! Details to come. 
DONUTS IN THE PARK
7.20. All women are welcome! Hosted by Macy Schell at Westside Park. Details to come.

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“How Great Is Our God”

“Open the Eyes of My Heart”

Confession of faith

Ascension Sunday -

Heidelberg Q & A 49:

Q.How does Christ’s ascension to heaven benefit us?

A.First, he is our advocate

in heaven

in the presence of his Father.

Second, we have our own flesh in heaven

as a sure pledge that Christ our head

will also take us, his members,

up to himself.

Third, he sends his Spirit to us on earth

as a corresponding pledge.

By the Spirit’s power

we seek not earthly things

but the things above, where Christ is,

sitting at God’s right hand.

“O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Lamentations 5

Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord

5 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
    look, and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our homes to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.
4 We must pay for the water we drink;
    the wood we get must be bought.
5 Our pursuers are at our necks;
    we are weary; we are given no rest.
6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,
    to get bread enough.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
    and we bear their iniquities.
8 Slaves rule over us;
    there is none to deliver us from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
    because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven
    with the burning heat of famine.
11 Women are raped in Zion,
    young women in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes are hung up by their hands;
    no respect is shown to the elders.
13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,
    and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The old men have left the city gate,
    the young men their music.
15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;
    our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head;
    woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 For this our heart has become sick,
    for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
    jackals prowl over it.
19 But you, O Lord, reign forever;
    your throne endures to all generations.
20 Why do you forget us forever,
    why do you forsake us for so many days?
21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!
    Renew our days as of old—
22 unless you have utterly rejected us,
    and you remain exceedingly angry with us.

SERMON

“Million Little Miracles”

CONFESSION OF SIN

Confession: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

(Silent confession)

Assurance: Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor 5:7-8)

“Good Good Father”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | May 5th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHICKEN SUNDAY
4.28. Sign-up to come.

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

INVOCATION

“Better Than Life”

“Gloria”

“Ancient of Days”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Matthew 27:32-50

As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.

ESV: English Standard Version 2016

SERMON

“I Speak Jesus”

“Thank You Jesus For the Blood”

CONFESSION OF SIN

Confession: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

(Silent confession)

Assurance: Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor 5:7-8)

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | April 28th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHICKEN SUNDAY
4.28. Sign-up to come.

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

It is truly good and right,

with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise you, Father,

and your only-begotten Son,

our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear Father, by your wondrous condescension of loving-kindness

toward us your servants,

you gave up your Son.

Dear Jesus, you paid the debt of Adam

for us to the eternal Father

by your blood poured forth

in loving-kindness.

You cleared away the darkness of sin

by your magnificent and

radiant resurrection.

You broke the bonds of death

and rose from the grave as a conqueror.

You reconciled heaven and earth.

Our life had no hope of eternal happiness before you redeemed us.

Your resurrection has washed away our sins, restored our innocence, and brought us joy.

You are worthy of all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

“Great Jehovah”

CONFESSION OF FAITH

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus of very love did become man, to be made like humanity in all except sin;

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus came in this humanity to receive the punishments

of our transgressions and by his death

to make satisfaction to God’s justice;

Together: We believe

Leader: That by his resurrection the Lord

Jesus destroyed the hold of death

on the world, bringing again life to

this world from which the whole offspring

of Adam was justly exiled.

Together: We believe

Leader: No creature is able to comprehend

the length and breadth, the depth and height, of that most excellent love which

moved God to show mercy, where none was deserved, to promise and give life,

where death had gotten the victory, to rescue people in his grace.

Together: We believe! Praise be to God! Amen!

“Nombre No Hay”

“Undivided Heart”

MEMBERSHIP INDUCTION

Mary Ann Gordon

Rob Grabowski

Eric and Lauren Huh

Chris Hur

Casey Johnson

Noah and Bella Lawty

Micah Mondt

Matthew Strong

Riley Wills

Townshend White

Jingzhi Yang

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Luke 10:38-42

Martha and Mary

38 Now as they went on their way, Jesus[a] entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary.[b] Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

SERMON

Guest Speaker: Chad Jowers

“O Come to the Alter”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“New Name Written Down in Glory”

BENEDICTION

“God Is Good”

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | April 21st 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APRIL SUNDAY SCHOOL
Join us for our class on Old Testament Poetry. 

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

GOSPEL AND LIFE - WOMEN AND WELLNESS: FINDING BALANCE THROUGH A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
4.27. 10:00-11:30AM. Ladies! Mark your calendars for our first ever Gospel and Life event at the church. Join us for a time of fellowship and panel discussion on how the gospel informs the topic of health and overall well-being. Light refreshments provided. RSVP and find full info on the church center app (here: https://ponce-presbyterian-church-264690.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2230769)

CHICKEN SUNDAY
4.28. Sign-up to come.

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

INVOCATION

It is truly good and right,

with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise you, Father,

and your only-begotten Son,

our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear Father, by your wondrous condescension of loving-kindness

toward us your servants,

you gave up your Son.

Dear Jesus, you paid the debt of Adam

for us to the eternal Father

by your blood poured forth

in loving-kindness.

You cleared away the darkness of sin

by your magnificent and

radiant resurrection.

You broke the bonds of death

and rose from the grave as a conqueror.

You reconciled heaven and earth.

Our life had no hope of eternal happiness before you redeemed us.

Your resurrection has washed away our sins, restored our innocence, and brought us joy.

You are worthy of all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

“Emmanuel”

“Tu Amor”

“Before The Throne of God”

BAPTISM

Gray Daniel Stoks

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | 1 CorINTHIANS 15:42-49

42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”;[a] the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall[b] also bear the image of the man of heaven.

SERMON

Speaker: Rev. Cargo

“Yes and Amen”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“Thank You Jesus For the Blood”

BENEDICTION

“God Is Good”

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | April 14th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APRIL SUNDAY SCHOOL
Join us for our class on Old Testament Poetry. 

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

GOSPEL AND LIFE - WOMEN AND WELLNESS: FINDING BALANCE THROUGH A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
4.27. 10:00-11:30AM. Ladies! Mark your calendars for our first ever Gospel and Life event at the church. Join us for a time of fellowship and panel discussion on how the gospel informs the topic of health and overall well-being. Light refreshments provided. RSVP and find full info on the church center app (here: https://ponce-presbyterian-church-264690.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2230769)

CHICKEN SUNDAY
4.28. Sign-up to come.

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

It is truly good and right,

with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise you, Father,

and your only-begotten Son,

our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear Father, by your wondrous condescension of loving-kindness

toward us your servants,

you gave up your Son.

Dear Jesus, you paid the debt of Adam

for us to the eternal Father

by your blood poured forth

in loving-kindness.

You cleared away the darkness of sin

by your magnificent and

radiant resurrection.

You broke the bonds of death

and rose from the grave as a conqueror.

You reconciled heaven and earth.

Our life had no hope of eternal happiness before you redeemed us.

Your resurrection has washed away our sins, restored our innocence, and brought us joy.

You are worthy of all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

“Blessed Be Your Name”

“10,000 Reasons”

“Goodness of God”

CONFession of faith

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus of very love did become man, to be made like humanity in all except sin;

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus came in this humanity to receive the punishments

of our transgressions and by his death

to make satisfaction to God’s justice;

Together: We believe

Leader: That by his resurrection the Lord

Jesus destroyed the hold of death

on the world, bringing again life to

this world from which the whole offspring

of Adam was justly exiled.

Together: We believe

Leader: No creature is able to comprehend

the length and breadth, the depth and height, of that most excellent love which

moved God to show mercy, where none was deserved, to promise and give life,

where death had gotten the victory, to rescue people in his grace.

Together: We believe! Praise be to God! Amen!

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Genesis 8:20 - 9:17

God's Covenant with Noah

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man,
    by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.

7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

SERMON

Title: “A New Beginning“

Guest Speaker: Rev. G. Hamm

“King of My Heart”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“All The Poor and Powerless”

BENEDICTION

“God Is Good”

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | April 7th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APRIL SUNDAY SCHOOL
Join us for our class on Old Testament Poetry. 

PONCE WORK DAY
4.13.10AM-1PM. We'll be doing a work day with our partners at Mom Community Ministry (1851 Jonesboro Rd. SE, Atlanta). There is plenty of parking onsite. Please arrive a bit early if possible to unload be ready to work at 10AM. Sign-up here to help!

RUF-I MLK CENTER VISIT 4.13. Join the Missions Team as we work with International Buzz, an outreach organization at Georgia Tech. We’ll be taking 25-30 students to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. Following the visit, we’ll head back to the church for a luncheon and discussion. For more information, contact Lisa Huggins at lphuggins@gmail.com.

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

GOSPEL AND LIFE - WOMEN AND WELLNESS: FINDING BALANCE THROUGH A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
4.27. 10:00-11:30AM. Ladies! Mark your calendars for our first ever Gospel and Life event at the church. Join us for a time of fellowship and panel discussion on how the gospel informs the topic of health and overall well-being. Light refreshments provided. RSVP and find full info on the church center app (here: https://ponce-presbyterian-church-264690.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2230769)

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

INVOCATION

It is truly good and right,

with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise you, Father,

and your only-begotten Son,

our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear Father, by your wondrous condescension of loving-kindness

toward us your servants,

you gave up your Son.

Dear Jesus, you paid the debt of Adam

for us to the eternal Father

by your blood poured forth

in loving-kindness.

You cleared away the darkness of sin

by your magnificent and

radiant resurrection.

You broke the bonds of death

and rose from the grave as a conqueror.

You reconciled heaven and earth.

Our life had no hope of eternal happiness before you redeemed us.

Your resurrection has washed away our sins, restored our innocence, and brought us joy.

You are worthy of all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

“Friend of God”

“Hymn of Heaven”

“Graves Into Gardens”

CONFession of faith

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus of very love did become man, to be made like humanity in all except sin;

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus came in this humanity to receive the punishments

of our transgressions and by his death

to make satisfaction to God’s justice;

Together: We believe

Leader: That by his resurrection the Lord

Jesus destroyed the hold of death

on the world, bringing again life to

this world from which the whole offspring

of Adam was justly exiled.

Together: We believe

Leader: No creature is able to comprehend

the length and breadth, the depth and height, of that most excellent love which

moved God to show mercy, where none was deserved, to promise and give life,

where death had gotten the victory, to rescue people in his grace.

Together: We believe! Praise be to God! Amen!

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | John 21:1-19

Jesus Appears to Seven Disciples

21 After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. 3 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

4 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” 6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish. 7 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea. 8 The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards[a] off.

9 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place, with fish laid out on it, and bread. 10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” 11 So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn. 12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. 13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. 14 This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Jesus and Peter

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” 19 (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”

SERMON

Title: “The Third Post-Resurrection Appearance of Jesus“

Guest Speaker: Dr. Guy Richard

“Come Ye Sinners”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“God Is Good”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 31st 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APRIL SUNDAY SCHOOL
Join us for our class on Old Testament Poetry. 

PONCE WORK DAY
4.13.10AM-1PM. We'll be doing a work day with our partners at Mom Community Ministry (1851 Jonesboro Rd. SE, Atlanta). There is plenty of parking onsite. Please arrive a bit early if possible to unload be ready to work at 10AM. Sign-up here to help!

RUF-I MLK CENTER VISIT 4.13. Join the Missions Team as we work with International Buzz, an outreach organization at Georgia Tech. We’ll be taking 25-30 students to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. Following the visit, we’ll head back to the church for a luncheon and discussion. For more information, contact Lisa Huggins at lphuggins@gmail.com.

GOSPEL AND LIFE - WOMEN AND WELLNESS: FINDING BALANCE THROUGH A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
4.27. 10:00-11:30AM. Ladies! Mark your calendars for our first ever Gospel and Life event at the church. Join us for a time of fellowship and panel discussion on how the gospel informs the topic of health and overall well-being. Light refreshments provided. RSVP and find full info on the church center app (here: https://ponce-presbyterian-church-264690.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2230769)

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

“Doxology”

“Arise, Oh God”

“You Are My God and My King”

CONFession of faith

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus of very love did become man, to be made like humanity in all except sin;

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus came in this humanity to receive the punishments

of our transgressions and by his death

to make satisfaction to God’s justice;

Together: We believe

Leader: That by his resurrection the Lord

Jesus destroyed the hold of death

on the world, bringing again life to

this world from which the whole offspring

of Adam was justly exiled.

Together: We believe

Leader: No creature is able to comprehend

the length and breadth, the depth and height, of that most excellent love which

moved God to show mercy, where none was deserved, to promise and give life,

where death had gotten the victory, to rescue people in his grace.

Together: We believe! Praise be to God! Amen!

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | John 11

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when he heard that Lazarus[a] was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” 12 The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16 So Thomas, called the Twin,[b] said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

I Am the Resurrection and the Life

17 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles[c] off, 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.[d] Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

28 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29 And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. 31 When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved[e] in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus

38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” 44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

54 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. 56 They were looking for[f] Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?” 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

SERMON

“Revelation 19”

CONFESSION OF SIN

Pastor: You alone I follow, Lord Jesus; you heal my wounds. For what shall separate me from the Love of God, which is in you? Shall tribulation, or distress, or famine?

All: I am held fast as though by nails and fettered by the bonds of charity. Remove from me, O Lord Jesus, with your powerful sword, the corruption of my sins. Secure me in the bonds of your love; cut away what is corrupt in me.

Pastor: Come quickly and make an end of many hidden and secret afflictions. Open the wound lest the evil sickness spread. With your purity, cleanse in me all that is stained. Hear me, O you earthly people, who in your sins bring forth drunken thoughts: I have found a Physician.

All: He dwells in heaven and distributes his healing on earth. He alone can heal my pains who Himself has none. He alone who knows what is hidden can take away the grief of my heart and the fear of my soul: Jesus Christ. Christ is grace! Christ is life! Christ is resurrection! Amen

A Prayer of Ambrose of Milan, Italy (339-397)

“Precious Is the Blood”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“Hosanna”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 24th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MAUNDY THURSDAY 3.28. 5:30 PM. Dinner and foot-washing service. Please RSVP here so we can provide enough pizza. 

GOOD FRIDAY 3.29. Self-guided: 7-9AM and 11-1PM.

EASTER SUNDAY  3.31.

APRIL SUNDAY SCHOOL
Join us for our class on Old Testament Poetry. 

PONCE WORK DAY
4.13.10AM-1PM. We'll be doing a work day with our partners at Mom Community Ministry (1851 Jonesboro Rd. SE, Atlanta). There is plenty of parking onsite. Please arrive a bit early if possible to unload be ready to work at 10AM. Sign-up here to help!

RUF-I MLK CENTER VISIT 4.13. Join the Missions Team as we work with International Buzz, an outreach organization at Georgia Tech. We’ll be taking 25-30 students to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. Following the visit, we’ll head back to the church for a luncheon and discussion. For more information, contact Lisa Huggins at lphuggins@gmail.com.

GOSPEL AND LIFE - WOMEN AND WELLNESS: FINDING BALANCE THROUGH A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
4.27. 10:00-11:30AM. Ladies! Mark your calendars for our first ever Gospel and Life event at the church. Join us for a time of fellowship and panel discussion on how the gospel informs the topic of health and overall well-being. Light refreshments provided. RSVP and find full info on the church center app (here: https://ponce-presbyterian-church-264690.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2230769)

———————————————-

DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

Invocation

“Holy Holy Holy”

“Bueno Es Alabar”

“Chasing After You”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

MISSIONS UPDATE

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Luke 4:16-30 & Luke 19:28-40

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
    and recovering of sight to the blind,
    to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”

20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph's son?” 23 And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’” 24 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. 29 And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. 30 But passing through their midst, he went away.

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The Triumphal Entry

28 And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, 30 saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’” 32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them. 33 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 And they said, “The Lord has need of it.” 35 And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. 36 And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road. 37 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” 39 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

SERMON

Title: “Palm Sunday: Balancing Anticipation & Expectations”

“Blessed Assurance”

CONFESSION OF SIN

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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

COMMUNION

“Redeemed By the Blood of the Lamb”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 17th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MAUNDY THURSDAY 3.28. 5:30 PM. Dinner and foot-washing service. 

GOOD FRIDAY 3.29. Self-guided: 7-9AM, 11-1PM, and 5-7PM.

EASTER SUNDAY  3.31.

RUF-I MLK CENTER VISIT 4.13. Join the Missions Team as we work with International Buzz, an outreach organization at Georgia Tech. We’ll be taking 25-30 students to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. Following the visit, we’ll head back to the church for a luncheon and discussion. For more information, contact Lisa Huggins at lphuggins@gmail.com.

GOSPEL AND LIFE: LIVING BALANCED 4.27. 10:30-11:30AM. Ladies! Mark your calendars for our first Gospel and Life: Living Balanced event at the church. Join us for a time of fellowship and panel discussion on how the gospel informs the topic of wellness. Snacks and coffee/tea provided. 

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

Invocation

Songs-Choir

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Hebrews 11

By Faith

11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. 11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. 20 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.

23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

29 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two,[a] they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

SERMON

“I Wonder”

“O What Glory Is This”

CONFESSION OF SIN

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“Ancient of Days”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 10th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MERCY CARE TEAM INTEREST MEETING 3.10. 12-1:15 PM. Join the deacons on daylight savings Sunday if you're interested in joining our new Mercy Care Team. This team helps meet people's physical and relational needs and helps engage our whole church family in mercy ministry. Snacks will be provided.

SAVE THE DATE: MEN’S RETREAT 3.22-24. Sign-up here. Details on the app.

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

Invocation

“Every Praise”

“At Calvary”

“Here I Am To Worship”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | 1 Samuel 15

The Lord Rejects Saul

15 And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

4 So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley. 6 Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7 And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. 8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

10 The word of the Lord came to Samuel: 11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night. 12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.” 13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” 14 And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” 15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.” 16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

17 And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. 18 And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 22 And Samuel said,

“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
    as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
    and to listen than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
    and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
    he has also rejected you from being king.”

24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the Lord.” 26 And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” 27 As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 28 And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 29 And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.” 30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.” 31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the Lord.

32 Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” 33 And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

34 Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. 35 And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

SERMON

“A City Narrative: Image & Influence”

“Be Thou My Vision”

“Better Word”

CONFESSION OF SIN

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata

Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 3rd 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MERCY CARE TEAM INTEREST MEETING 3.10. 12-1:15 PM. Join the deacons on daylight savings Sunday if you're interested in joining our new Mercy Care Team. This team helps meet people's physical and relational needs and helps engage our whole church family in mercy ministry. Snacks will be provided.

SAVE THE DATE: MEN’S RETREAT 3.22-24. Sign-up here. Details on the app.

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP

Invocation

“God So Loved”

“Hear the Call of the Kingdom”

“Yahweh”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

“Hallelujah” (Kids Singing)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | 1 Chronicles 21:1-22:1

David's Census Brings Pestilence

21 Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.” 3 But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?” 4 But the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470,000 who drew the sword. 6 But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king's command was abhorrent to Joab.

7 But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. 8 And David said to God, “I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” 9 And the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, 10 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’” 11 So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Choose what you will: 12 either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.” 13 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

14 So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell. 15 And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people.”

David Builds an Altar

18 Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 So David went up at Gad's word, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord. 20 Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground. 22 And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.” 23 Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.” 24 But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” 25 So David paid Ornan 600 shekels[a] of gold by weight for the site. 26 And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord[b] answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. 27 Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.

28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon, 30 but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

SERMON

“The Spiritual Danger of Success (and Failure)”

“All Who Are Thirsty”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

Confession of Sin

COMMUNION

“Our Psalm 23”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata