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Announcements
We will continue to meet online through the month of June.
Village Baptist June 6 Dinner- Chicken and Biscuits- IT’S ON!
We are going to try something out this month! You will get all of the usual great food, with cookies as opposed to pie. Beverage is not included. It will be $10 per adult (Seniors over 90 and Kids under 5 are free) Usual menu to benefit our “Send a Kid to Camp” fund. All pick ups will be delivered curbside on Broadway in front of church. This month’s dinner will be limited to 150. You can call 518-747-5996 by 12pm on Saturday June 6th to place your order.
Prelude Miriam Enman
Introit Through It All
Through it all, through it all,
I’ve learned to trust in Jesus,
I’ve learned to trust in God;
Through it all, Through it all,
I’ve learned to depend upon His Word.
CCLI Song #18211 Andrae Crouch
Call to Worship From Taught by Love by Lavon Bayler
Leader: The God of heaven and earth calls us together. We come to explore matters of the Spirit
People: There is so much we do not know or understand. So much of God is unknown to us.
L: Let us look carefully at the objects of our worship. Our attention is easily diverted from God.
P: We want to worship the One who gives us breath. We reach for the Reality beyond our knowing.
L: In God we live and move and have our being. All that we have and are comes from God.
P: God is not limited to shrines made by us. God is everywhere present in the whole universe.
Hymn In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid Ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone! Who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer From Taught by Love by Lavon Bayler
Let the sound of praising you be heard among us today, and in all the places of your dominion, O God. We believe you are present with us even when we cannot feel or see or hear you as we would like. We thank you for the times when you have caught our attention. We ask for one of those times today. Shake us out of our complacency and our cherished iniquities. Hold us in your steadfast love and call forth within us an awareness of all your blessings. Stimulate among us an eagerness to live as you intend.
Praying Together:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen
Worship in Tithes and Offerings
Special Music as Offering Tenasia Longacker
Prayer of Dedication
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Responsive Prayer
L: God of Resurrection
P: Hear Our Prayer
Hymn Kum Ba Yah
1. Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah. Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah. Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum bay a. O Lord, kum ba yah.
2. Someone’s praying, Lord.
3. Someone’s crying, Lord.
4. Someone needs you, Lord.
5. Someone’s singing, Lord.
6. Kum ba yah, my Lord.
Note: Kum ba yah- translates into “Come by here”
Text for the Message 1 Peter 3: 13-22 (NIV)
Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.”But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
Message
Hymn Pass It on
It only takes a spark to get a fire going,
And soon all those around can warm up in its glowing;
That’s how it is with God’s Love,
Once you’ve experienced it,
Your spread the love to everyone
You want to pass it on.
What a wonderous time is spring,
When all the tress are budding
The birds begin to sing, the flowers start their blooming;
That’s how it is with God’s love,
Once you’ve experienced it.
You want to sing, it’s fresh like spring,
You want to pass it on.
I wish for you my friend
This happiness that I’ve found;
You can depend on God
It matters not where you’re bound,
I’ll shout it from the mountain top – PRAISE GOD!
I want the world to know
The Lord of love has come to me
I want to pass it on.
Benediction (Blessing)
Postlude Miriam Enman