Welcome to your Sunday Chapel with Mike Milton. We seek to provide a chapel service for those who cannot be in the Lord’s House to worship. We hope you find these services to be of spiritual support. Our aim is to direct your life to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Each message is prepared and delivered this week for you. We say with the Apostle Paul:
“For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? Indeed, you are our glory and joy” (1 Thessalonians 2:19-20).
The divine service of worship here is an abbreviated version of a Reformed worship service involving four vital movements or biblically revealed responses to God’s Call to Worship:
Gathering
Word
Table (an intimacy that focuses on the saving act, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection; we encourage you to seek the Lord’s Supper in a Christian community administered by a duly ordained minister or to request a minister to bring Holy Communion to you, if unable to attend divine services; our purpose here is to draw you to the great Passover, our Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God whose body and blood—righteousness and sacrifice—are our salvation)
Sending
We pray that you are encouraged to know that the Lord is here, with you, and will never leave you. If we can remind you of that one truth from God’s Word, then we have met our mission for today.
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We provide a bulletin to support your participation in the service from wherever you are.
The Order of Worship for Your Sunday Chapel
The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us” (1 John 5:14).
A Welcome
The Call to Worship
The Hymn
The Prayer and Lord’s Prayer (Said audibly by all who are able)
The Affirmation of Faith (The Apostles Creed or another historic “catholic” creed that unites us with all of the Body of Christ, to be said audibly if able)
The Gloria Patri (Praise to the Triune God)
The Confession of Sin and Assurance of Pardon
The Reading of Scripture
The Bible Message
The Doxology
The Benediction and Sending
Resources for Worship and Devotion on the Lord’s Day
The Collect (Ka’-lect; a gathering prayer)
O Lord, you have taught us that without love, all our deeds are worth nothing: Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the true bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before you; grant this for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Lessons
Sunday, Holy Day and Commemoration Lectionary — Year A
For resources on the Church Year and selections for reading:
References
“Hymns based on the Church Year.” Accessed September 24, 2023. https://worship.calvin.edu/resources/resource-library/lift-up-your-hearts-revised-common-lectionary-index/.
“The Hymnal | Hymnary.Org.” Accessed September 24, 2023. https://hymnary.org/hymnal/HPAG1933.
“The Methodist Hymnal: Official Hymnal of the Methodist Church | Hymnary.Org.” Accessed September 24, 2023. https://hymnary.org/hymnal/MH1939.
“The Presbyterian Hymnal: Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Songs | Hymnary.Org.” Accessed September 24, 2023. https://hymnary.org/hymnal/PH1990.
“Trinity Hymnal (Rev. Ed.) | Hymnary.Org.” Accessed September 24, 2023. https://hymnary.org/hymnal/TH1990.
“Trinity Psalter Hymnal | Hymnary.Org.” Accessed September 24, 2023. https://hymnary.org/hymnal/TPH2018.
Worship and Service Hymnal: For Church, School and Home. Carol Stream, IL: Hope Publishing, 1987. https://www.worldcat.org/title/40220730.
Worship Magazine, Calvin University. “Four-Fold Worship.” Accessed September 24, 2023. https://worship.calvin.edu/resources/resource-library/four-fold-pattern-of-worship/.
Your Sunday Chapel with Mike Milton