Guide for Home Worship
March 14, 2021

Please note: the sermon will not be available until after the 9:00 am worship service at The Quechee Church. 
Printable Worship Guide

Opening Prayer

(select someone from your group to open your service in prayer)

Call to Worship

Psalm 62:5-8 (NIV)

LEADER: Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.

CONGREGATION: He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

LEADER: My salvation and my honor depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge.

CONGREGATION: Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him for God is our refuge.

Songs and Liturgy

(sing as a group and/or sing along to recorded versions)

MAN OF SORROWS
(Brooke Ligertwood, Matt Crocker)

Man of sorrows, Lamb of God
By His own betrayed,
The sin of man and wrath of God
Has been on Jesus laid.

Silent as He stood accused,
Beaten, mocked and scorned.
Bowing to the Father’s will
He took a crown of thorns.
(CHORUS)

Sent of heaven God’s own Son
To purchase and redeem.
And reconcile the very ones
Who nailed Him to that tree.
(CHORUS)

BRIDGE:
Now my debt is paid,
It is paid in full.
By the precious blood
That my Jesus spilled.
Now the curse of sin
Has no hold on me,
Whom the Son sets free,
Oh is free indeed.
(CHORUS)

See the stone is rolled away,
Behold the empty tomb.
Hallelujah God be praised!
He’s risen from the grave!
(CHORUS)

CHORUS:
Oh that rugged cross, my salvation,
Where Your love poured out over me.
Now my soul cries out hallelujah!
Praise and honor unto Thee.
^{©2012 Hillsong Publishing CCLI#1791178}

RESPONSIVE READING: Psalm 32 (NIV)

LEADER: Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven.
Whose sins are covered

CONGREGATION: Blessed is the man
Whose sin the LORD does not count against him,
And in whose spirit is not deceit.

LEADER: When I kept silent,
My bones wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

CONGREGATION: For day and night
Your hand was heavy upon me;
My strength was sapped
As in the heat of summer.

LEADER: Then I acknowledged my sin to you
And did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess
My transgressions to the LORD”
And you forgave the guilt of my sin.

CONGREGATION: Therefore let everyone who is godly pray
To you while you may be found;
Surely when the mighty waters rise,
They will not reach him.

ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING
(St. Francis, 1225, & William H. Draper 1928, Jonathan Baird, Ryan Baird)

All creatures of our God and King,
Lift up your voice and with us sing,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Thou burning sun with golden beam,
Thou silver moon with softer gleam,
O praise Him, O praise Him,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Let all things their Creator bless,
And worship Him in humbleness,
O praise Him, Alleluia!
Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son,
And praise the Spirit, three in one,
O praise Him, O praise Him,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

All the redeemed washed by His blood,
Come and rejoice in His great love,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Christ has defeated every sin.
Cast all your burdens now on Him,
O praise Him! O praise Him!
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

He shall return in pow’r to reign.
Heaven and earth will join to say,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Then who shall fall on bended knee?
All creatures of our God and King,
O praise Him! O praise Him!
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
^{©2013 Sovereign Grace Worship (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) CCLI License #1791178}

Prayer Time

(You may have an open time of prayer or select someone to pray)

• Pray for our nation – that the good news of Jesus Christ would draw people to know God genuinely and personally.
• Pray for those suffering from the ongoing spread of the coronavirus.
• Pray for those experiencing racial injustices; specifically, that God would bring hope, reconciliation, and restoration through the good news of His Son.
• Pray for those in authority at every level in our country, that they would govern wisely and justly.

Listen to Sermon

“The Story of Courage”
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
Download Audio

Haggai 2:10-19 (ESV)

¹⁰ On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, ¹¹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law: ¹² ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.” ¹³ Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” ¹⁴ Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean. ¹⁵ Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, ¹⁶ how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. ¹⁷ I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. ¹⁸ Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider: ¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”

Confession of Faith

Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Lord’s Day 10

LEADER: What do you understand by the providence of God?

CONGREGATION: Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which he upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty— all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but from his fatherly hand. 

LEADER: How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence help us?

CONGREGATION: We can be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that nothing will separate us from his love. All creatures are so completely in his hand that without his will they can neither move nor be moved.

Song of Response

HIS MERCY IS MORE
(Matt Papa, Matt Boswell)

What love could remember no wrongs we have done?
Omniscient, all knowing, he counts not their sum.
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore.
Our sins, they are many, his mercy is more.

What patience would wait as we constantly roam?
What father, so tender, is calling us home?
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor.
Our sins they are many, his mercy is more.

CHORUS:
Praise the Lord,
His mercy is more.
Stronger than darkness, new every morn.
Our sins they are many, his mercy is more.

What riches of kindness he lavished on us.
His blood was the payment, his life was the cost.
We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford.
Our sins, they are many, his mercy is more.
(CHORUS)
^{©2016 Messenger Hymns (Admin. by Music Services, Inc.) CCLI #1791178}

Benediction

(The leader or individual should read this aloud relishing in the confident assertion that Christ has conquered.)

Luke 12:29-32

LEADER: Do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

PEOPLE: Amen!