Guide for Home Worship
September 20, 2020
Please note: the sermon will not be available until after the 9:00 am outdoor worship service at The Quechee Church.
Printable Worship Guide
Welcome
Thank you so much for joining us! The following page will take you through the order of worship for this Sunday. To access the recorded songs and sermon, use the embedded audio players in each section.
If you are new, welcome! We also want to invite you to learn more about us. You can do so by selecting the button below.
A few tips for parents:
- Plan for your time – read through the guide and prepare the room where you are gathering
- Make your time joyful – have fun!!!
- Remember, it’s primarily about a relationship, not a task to scratch off
- Have your kids participate in age and maturity appropriate ways – reading, singing, etc.
- You are welcome to print out our Children’s Worship Bulletin here
Time of Reflection
“God gave Rock and Roll to you
Gave Rock and Roll to you
Put it in the soul of everyone”
~Argent, “God Gave Rock and Roll to You”
“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn to dumb idols, breaking the heart of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of the flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have not yet visited.”
~C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory”
“A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.”
~David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
“Just as old or bleary-eye men and those with weak vision, if you thrust before them a most beautiful volume, even if they recognize it to be some sort of writing, yet can scarcely construe two words, but with the aid of spectacles will begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering up the otherwise confused knowledge of God in our minds, having dispersed our dullness, clearly shows us the true God.”
~John Calvin
“I read there [in ‘certain books of the Platonists’] that God the Word was born ‘not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh, but of God.’ But, that ‘the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us’ — I found this nowhere there.”
~Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions
Opening Prayer
(select someone from your group to open your service in prayer)
Call to Worship
Psalm 86:8-10 (NIV)
LEADER: Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord; no deeds can compare with yours.
CONGREGATION: All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name.
ALL: For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.
Songs and Liturgy
(sing as a group and/or sing along to recorded versions)
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
(Reginald Heber & John B. Dykes, 1861, Eric Schumacher, David L. Ward)
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee;
Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty!
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, Holy, Holy! Tho’ the darkness hide Thee,
Tho’ the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see;
Only Thou art holy– there is none beside Thee
Perfect in power, in love and purity.
Holy, holy, holy! Justice meets with mercy:
God the Father crushed the Son for our iniquity.
Crucified and buried, risen unto glory,
Now, by the Spirit, holy we shall be.
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea!
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessed Trinity!
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Responsive Reading – Psalm 123 (NIV)
LEADER: I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven.
CONGREGATION: As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy.
LEADER: Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
CONGREGATION: We have endured much ridicule from the proud, much contempt from the arrogant.
ALL: Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us.
I STAND AMAZED
(Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 1856-1932)
I stand amazed in the presence,
of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me,
a sinner, condemned, unclean.
CHORUS:
How marvelous! How wonderful!
And my song shall ever be:
How marvelous! How wonderful!
Is my Savior’s love for me!
He took my sins and my sorrows,
and made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calvary,
and suffered and died alone.
(CHORUS)
For me it was in the garden,
He prayed: “Not my will, but Thine.”
He had no tears for His own griefs,
but sweat-drops of blood for mine.
(CHORUS)
He binds up the broken hearted,
brings honor to those with shame.
The unclean he graciously cleanses,
the outcast receives his embrace.
(CHORUS)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
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
“How Do We Know God?”
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
Sermon audio will be available following the 9:00 am outdoor worship service.
Download
selected passages (ESV)
Romans 1:18-25
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
2 Timothy 3:16
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness…
Hebrews 1:1
1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
John 1:18
18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
John 5:39-40
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
Confession of Faith
1 Timothy 3:16
LEADER: And by common confession great is the mystery of godliness:
CONGREGATION: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Nations, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
Sharing Time
(have everyone share one thing that struck them from the sermon)
Song
(sing as a group and/or sing along to recorded versions)
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
(Chris Tomlin, Ed Cash, Jesse Reeves)
The splendor of the King,
Clothed in majesty.
Let all the earth rejoice,
All the earth rejoice.
He wraps Himself in light,
And darkness tries to hide,
And trembles at His voice,
And trembles at His voice.
CHORUS:
How great is our God!
Sing with me,
How great is our God!
And all will see how great,
How great is our God!
Age to age He stands,
And time is in His hands,
Beginning and the End,
Beginning and the End,
The Godhead three in one:
Father, Spirit, Son,
The Lion and the Lamb,
The Lion and the Lamb.
(CHORUS)
BRIDGE:
Name above all names,
Worthy of all praise,
My heart will sing
How great is our God!
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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!
Worshipping God through Giving
God has called us to be generous. He has entrusted this earth and all that is in it to us, but it is, ultimately, His! The Father gave what was most precious to Him, His own Son, in order to die for our sins. He has given to us abundantly beyond all that we could possibly ask or imagine! He is a benevolent and generous Giver! So, we give.
First, we want to remind you to continue your regular giving to TQC. This supports the ongoing work and ministry here in the Upper Valley and around the world through our missions support. Second, please consider giving to our Benevolence Fund, which supports local community care, both inside and outside the church. This is vitally important right now! As we see needs sprouting up around the community, we want to be positioned to extend a loving hand of support to those in need.
May Giving Numbers
Budgeted Giving YTD: $67,200
Actual Giving to Date: $43,677
Difference: (-$23,543)
updated as of 8/31