PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA Welcome to Cornerstone! We are glad you are with us, whether in person or online. Below are some updates about our caution and care due to COVID-19. • There currently is no Sunday school meeting in person. There is an online curriculum available for younger children for in-home use. Contact Pastor Jamie for more details. • Nursery is available on the First and Third Sundays. • Primary Praise is held on Third Sundays. • You may participate online in worship via YouTube and Facebook – see church website. • When our worship service is outside, and you are in your car, you may tune in to 87.9 FM to hear better. • When worshipping outside, masks are not required. • Please show special care around those who either are higher risk or are caring for those at higher risk due to the virus. FAQ • Will masks be available both indoors and outside? Yes • Can I wear my own mask? Yes • Are you practicing safe distancing? Yes • If the weather is bad, will we still meet outside? If it is raining, too cold, windy, etc., then we will move the worship service to the sanctuary and recommend people to wear a mask. • Questions about the COVID precautions? Please feel free to reach out to your pastor, elders and/or deacons. Cornerstone Staff Rev. Jamie MacGregor Senior Pastor Clay Smith Pastoral Apprentice Christie Iler Women’s Discipleship Judi Laramy Finance Manager Contact Us www.cornerstone-pca.com [email protected] 262-646-6445 WE GATHER TO WORSHIP October 25, 2020 *Song of Gathering | 10,000 Reasons Bless the Lord O my soul You’re rich in love O my soul And you’re slow to anger Worship his holy name Your name is great Sing like never before And your heart is kind O my soul For all your goodness I’ll worship your holy name I will keep on singing Ten thousand reasons for my heart The sun comes up to find It’s a new day dawning It’s time to sing your song again Chorus Whatever may pass And whatever lies before me And on that day Let me be singing when the evening When my strength is failing comes The end draws near And my time has come Chorus Still my soul Will sing your praise unending Ten thousand years and then forevermore Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman | © 2011 Said and Done Music *Welcome and Prayer of Invocation | Clay Smith *denotes this will be done standing WE ARE CALLED TO WORSHIP *Call to Worship | Psalm 95:1-6 Leader: Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! All: Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! Leader: For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. All: Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! *Song of Praise | Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Robinson, Wyeth | Public Domain WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SIN Call To Confession | Romans 14:10-12 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. Song of Confession | My Worth is Not in What I Own Getty, Getty, Kendrick | CCLI# 7024758 Corporate Confession of Sin | from James 4:6-10 Leader: God, you say you oppose the proud but give grace to the humble. All: Yet, we are those who fail to submit ourselves to you. Leader: God, you say that we are to resist the devil so that he will flee from us. All: Yet, too often we listen to and follow the devil instead of you. Leader: God, you say that we are to draw near to you, and there we see how you draw near to us. All: Yet, we are content to be far from you. Leader: God, you call us to weep and mourn over our sin. All: Yet, we are blind and calloused toward our sin. Leader: God, help us now to repent more fully as we confess silently. [Silent confession] Leader: God, help us to never forget that the horror of our sin lies not so much in the nature of the sin committed, as in the greatness of the Person sinned against. All: Our laughter is turned to mourning and our joy to gloom as we consider our sin against you. Leader: Yet God, you say that when we humble ourselves before you, you lift us up! All: We turn to you in humility and receive your grace! Amen AND WE ARE GIVEN A WORD OF ASSURANCE *Words of Assurance | from 2 Chronicles 7:14 Leader: Hear what the Lord says: if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. All: We are humbled and we seek your face! Leader: If you have confessed your sin in Jesus' name, you are forgiven. All: Glory to God! *Westminster Shorter Catechism #27 Leader: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? All: Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. *Song of Assurance | His Mercy is More Boswell, Papa | CCLI# 7065053 WE CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY Testimony | Roy Peters Congregational Prayer † | Jamie MacGregor †Please turn in your prayer requests in person or via email to the pastor or elders. Children’s Blessing (Children watching online please join us, too!) Leader: People of God, what is our prayer for these children? All: May the Lord be with you. Children: And also with you. Leader: May the Word of the Lord grow in your hearts. Children: Thanks be to God! All: Go in peace. Announcements WE RECEIVE THE GOOD NEWS FROM GOD’S WORD *Scripture Readings | Laura Brinkmann Old Testament Reading | Isaiah 45:22-25 22 “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. 23 By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’ 24 “Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him. 25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.” Sermon Passage & New Testament Reading | Philippians 2:1-11 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Leader: This is the Word of the Lord All: Thanks be to God Sermon | Rev. Jamie MacGregor Finding Complete Joy| Philippians 2:1-11 1. The Humility of Christ: why we need it 2. The Humility of Christ: what is it 3. The Humility of Christ: how do we get it Main idea: Because Jesus emptied himself, let us be unified and filled with joy Sermon Notes WE ARE BLESSED AS WE LEAVE *Song of Sending | Come People of the Risen King Come, people of the Risen King Chorus Who delight to bring Him praise Come all and tune your hearts to sing Come, young and old from every land To the Morning Star of grace Men and women of the faith From the shifting shadows of the earth Come, those with full or empty hands We will lift our eyes to Him Find the riches of His grace Where steady arms of mercy reach Over all the world, His people sing To gather children in Shore to shore we hear them call The Truth that cries through every age: Rejoice, rejoice! Let every tongue "Our God is all in all"! rejoice! One heart, one voice; Chorus x2 O Church of Christ, rejoice! Come, those whose joy is morning sun And those weeping through the night Come, those who tell of battles won And those struggling in the fight For His perfect love will never change And His mercies never cease But follow us through all our days With the certain hope of peace Townend, Getty | CCLI # 5232617 *Benediction | 1 Timothy 6:15-16 He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see.