WEEKLY BULLETIN

PIPESTONE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH

P.O. Box 428

Pipestone, MN 56164

April 21, 2024

We wish to welcome all of you as we have gathered to worship the LORD together. May we bring praise to our heavenly Father, bow before the name of Jesus, and be united together through the bond of the Holy Spirit! In this order of worship that follows, please note that the words printed in bold are ones that the congregation is asked to respond with. Also, when an asterisk (*) appears, the congregation is asked to stand, if they are able.

THE LORD GATHERS US . . .

Call to Worship: Psalm 95:6-7

*Opening Song: “Come, Now Is The Time to Worship” (Lyric Video)

Come now is the time to worship, Come now is the time to give your heart

Come just as you are to worship, Come just as you are before your God

Come

One day every tongue Will confess You are God

One day every knee will bow

Still the greatest treasure remains For those who gladly choose You now

(Repeat from the beginning)

One day every tongue Will confess You are God

One day every knee will bow

Still the greatest treasure remains For those who gladly choose You now

Come now is the time to worship

Come now is the time to give your heart

Come just as you are to worship

Come just as you are before your God

Come – Come – Come.

By Brian Doerksen

CCLI License # 58350

*God’s Blessing

*Mutual Greetings

Opening Litany: (From Psalm 48:9-14)

Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.

Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.

Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.

Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers, consider well her ramparts, view her citadels, that you may tell of them to the next generation.

For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

Praise Response: “Our Great Savior”

Jesus! what a Friend for sinners! Jesus! Lover of my soul;

Friends may fail me foes assail me, He, my Savior, makes me whole.

Refrain: Hallelujah! What a Savior! Hallelujah! What a Friend.

Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with me to the end.

Jesus! What a strength in weakness! Let me hide myself in Him;

Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing, He, my strength, my vict’ry wins.

Refrain:

Jesus! What a Help in sorrow! While the billows o’er me roll,

Even when my heart is breaking, He, my Comfort, helps my soul.

Refrain

Jesus! What a Guide and Keeper! While the tempest still is high,

Storms about me, night o’er-takes me, He, my Pilot, hears my cry.

Refrain

Jesus! I do now receive Him, More than all in Him I find;

He hath granted me forgiveness, I am His, and He is mine.

Refrain

1997 by Integrity’s Hosanna Music and Word Music

CCLI 58350

TO BOW ON OUR KNEES BEFORE HIM . . .

Reading of God’s Law: Psalter Hymnal p. 1018

Prayer of Confession

Assurance of Pardon: Jeremiah 33:8

TO LIFT OUR EYES TO HIM . . .

Gideon’s Presentation

Pastoral Prayer

Offering for Gideons (place offering in bags in narthex)

Preparatory Hymn: “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”

What a fellowship, what a joy divine, Leaning on the everlasting arms.

What a blessed-ness, what a peace is mine, Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain: Leaning, leaning, Safe and secure from all alarms;

Leaning, leaning, Leaning on the everlasting arms.

O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way, Leaning on the everlasting arms.

O how bright the path grows from day to day, Leaning on the ever1asting arms.

Refrain

What have I to dread, what have I to fear, Leaning on the everlasting arms.

I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

TO OPEN OUR HEARTS TO HIS WORD

Scripture: Deuteronomy (Various Passages)

Pastor: This is the Word of the Lord.

Response: Thanks be To God

Prayer for Illumination

Sermon: God Calls His People to Obey

1. A reminder of Israel’s history and laws (1-11)

2. God's laws for the promised land (12-26)

3. Final exhortations to obedience and conclusion (27-34)

Closing Hymn: “When We Walk With the Lord” PH 548

. . . AND TO DEPART WITH HIS BLESSING!

*God's Parting Blessing: Hebrews 13:20-21

*Doxology: #1048 (DH) “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” PH 638

Postlude

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR April 21, 2024

TODAY 9:00 AM MORNING WORSHIP

WEDNESDAY 9:30 AM DORCAS

In God’s house of prayer may we be given the grace to respond freely and wholly to the preaching of the Gospel. When we leave the church may we manifest its power in our lives.

Offering today: Gideons

Next Sunday: Christians School Tuition

Serving coffee today: Linda K.

Next Sunday: Cheryl Kruse

Today the offering will be for the Gideons. A representative will be speaking about their work.

Congratulations to J.T. Tinklenberg and Lauren Tinkelman who will be united in marriage Friday, April 26 in Sioux Falls. They will be living in Fargo, ND.

Missionaries

Cornerstone Prison Ministries – Rev. Scott Van Voorst

Megan DeRuyter (Youth with a Mission) Honolulu, Hawaii

Sosthene and Kara Maletoungou in Africa

Last week’s trivia question: What circumstances enabled one to be cured in the pool of

Bethesda? You had to be the first one in when the waters were troubled. (John 5:4)

Today’s trivia question: How many porches did the pool of Bethesda have?

Memory Verse

Come, let us bow down in worship,

Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture,

the flock under his care.

Psalm 95:6-7

Community Announcements

On your mark...get set...GO!

Tie your shoe strings and begin your race with the SWC K-4th grade musical: The Amazing Grace Race on Friday, May 3rd at 9:30 a.m. Join us in the SWC elementary campus gymnasium to hear how these young racers are learning that the secret to running life's grace race is to follow in His steps but in their shoes. When facing tough stretches through places like the Valley of Despair and Badlands Bog, these kids learn the value of love, forgiveness, perseverance, and the value of working as a team. Running with faith, they look to the great cloud of witnesses cheering them on and consider the signs they are leaving for those who will come behind.

Most importantly, they run so as to cross the finish line and hear Jesus say, "Well done!"

Following our mission to touch lives for Christ, ATLAS is hosting a mentor training workshop on Saturday, April 27 from 1:00-4:30 pm at the ATLAS office at 101 2nd St. NE in Pipestone. We all have a dear friend or family member who is dealing with hard choices or circumstances, and we struggle with how best to help. During this workshop we will learn how to encourage, pray with, and bolster those we seek to help. For more information on this free workshop, contact the ATLAS office at 507.562.5777.