Apostles Peter and John Healing the Paralytic, 1553 – Lambert Suavius JULY 24, 2016 ADVENT CHRISTMAS EPIPHANY LENT EASTER PENTECOST ORDINARY TIME FROM TRINITY CHURCH NEWS WELCOME TO Trinity Church TPC Facebook: Join the TPC Facebook page! This is a Welcome to Trinity Presbyterian Church! great way to stay informed. Pastor Todd is regularly May you experience a strong and loving posting helpful videos. welcome. All of us have this in common: we need God’s grace. Grace is not Elder-Deacon Nominations Update: The elders have earned or deserved but comes freely begun to review the names nominated and contacting through God’s gift of His Son Jesus these individuals about their interest and sense of call Christ. We desire for you to find this grace and to live in its power. to serve as officers. th If you have any questions about our August Beach Potluck: Sunday, August 7 , we will be church or Christianity or specific needs meeting up at Kalama Beach Park starting at 3:30p for a we can pray for, please contact me, time of fellowship and a potluck dinner. Mark your Pastor Todd, at 808-224-2010 or by calendars! Sign-ups are on the Welcome Table. email at [email protected]. Support for the Edmonds: If you are able to help NURSERY support the Edmonds either financially or by providing The nursery is located in the building next to the sanctuary and is divided into a meal to help relieve some of the stress of long days at two age groups: infants and toddlers. the hospital, please contact the church office Parents can drop off their children at ([email protected]). 9:45 and can pick them up at the end of the service CHILDREN’S INSTRUCTION Children ages 4-9 are dismissed half-way through the service to Children’s Instruction which includes Bible stories and application of God’s Word to real life. They are divided into two age groups: 4-6 years, and 7-9 years, and meet in the Education Building. They return to the sanctuary for communion at the end of the service. PRAY FOR DEPLOYED AND AWAY MILITARY Eric Larsen Andrew Suzio 2 CONNECT Our Affiliations Fellowship Groups Communities dedicated to The Presbyterian Church in America is a helping you connect with others and grow national denomination with historic roots in spiritually. classical, biblical Christianity. The PCA is faithful AIKAHI: Thursday Evenings to the Scriptures, true to the Reformed Faith Contact Bill & Milda Burkhalter and obedient to the Great Commission of Jesus ([email protected]) Christ. You can learn all about our beliefs, KAILUA: Friday Evenings history and ministries at www.pcanet.org. Contact Joe & Dana Boyer ([email protected]) Northern California Presbytery is the PCA PEARL HARBOR: Thursday Evenings presbytery of the geographic region in which Contact Dave & Tierney McCaughrin Hawaii lies. In addition to northern California, it ([email protected]) also includes the entire state of Utah. Pastor Todd gathers several times a year with other Weekly Playgroup: For ladies/moms – Join us elders in the presbytery to provide oversight at Katherine Franklin's home on Mondays from and encouragement for each other. 9a-11a. Open house style, stop by for as little or as much time as you are able to fellowship Grace Partnership Hawaii is a church-planting with other ladies while the kids play. (Kids not network which seeks to magnify God’s glory by required, any ladies are welcome to join!) helping to fund new churches and college Contact Katherine at ministries in the Hawaiian Islands. Its vision is to July24 [email protected] for questions raise up churches that engage, challenge, and or directions. serve their neighborhoods and, ultimately, the Hawaiian Islands through the power and application of the gospel. Reformed University Ministries is lead by John Kim at U of H – Manoa and seeks to connect college students to Christ and to his bride – the church. Learn more about RUF at www.rufhawaii.org. August 7 - Potluck at Kalama Beach, 3:30p August 21 - Fellowship Lunch Sep. 4 - Potluck at Kalama Beach, 3:30p 3 Welcome to Worship JULY 24, 2016 Thoughts on the Gospel “Fear” in the biblical sense…includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.” ― Edward T. Welch “Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth... Wisdom requires a surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of existence.” ― Gerhard von Rad Gathering Song Spirit of the Living God Words by Henry H. Tweedy, 1933, Music by Audrey Assad, © 2013 Fortunate Fall Records 4 Welcome Pastor Todd Capen The Church expresses her hospitality to all people. To all who are weary and need rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who feel worthless and wonder if God cares; to all who fail and desire strength; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who hunger and thirst for righteousness; and to whoever will come—this church opens wide her doors and offers her welcome in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Call to Worship* Based on Psalm 51, Psalm 93, Luke 24:44-46, Ephesians 1:20-22, Hebrews 4:16 Let us worship the triune God! Lord, open our lips! Call to Worship: Worship is what we give worth and And our mouth shall declare your praise. weight to in our lives. The God Blessed be God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. who created us Our God reigns! and redeemed us Robed with majesty and armed with strength, in Christ calls us to God holds our world and our lives securely. respond to the weight of who He is and the worth of This is the God to whom we have given our lives— what He’s done in the God who deserves our worship and our praise! our lives. God invites us into the You have heard what was written about Jesus in Scripture— joy of celebrating how he would suffer and die His Greatness. and then rise from the dead on the third day; How the same power that raised Jesus from the dead Raised Him to heaven and seated Him at the right hand of God, where he now lives to intercede on our behalf. So let us come before God with confidence, through the loving intercession of our risen Lord, Jesus Christ! Prayer of Adoration* * - Please stand if you are able 5 Song of Praise* Jesus, Everlasting King Words by Isaac Watts, 1707 Music by Matthew S. Smith © 2003 detuned radio music 6 Scripture Reading* Katherine Franklin Acts 6:8- 7:16 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 9 Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. 10 But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. 11 Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” 12 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, 13 and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law, 14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.” 15 And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel. And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ 4 Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. 5 Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child. 6 And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years. 7 ‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’ 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. 9 “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him 10 and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. 11 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.