November 2nd, 2025
Guest Pastor: Dan VanKooten
Welcome/Announcements
God's Greeting, Greeting of One Another
Worship & Praise Music​​
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O Worship The King (Lyons)
Verse 1
O worship the King all glorious above
And gratefully sing His power and His love
Our Shield and Defender the Ancient of Days
Pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise
Verse 2
O tell of His might O sing of His grace
Whose robe is the light whose canopy space
His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form
And dark is His path on the wings of the storm
Verse 5
Frail children of dust and feeble as frail
In Thee do we trust nor find Thee to fail
Thy mercies how tender how firm to the end
Our Maker Defender Redeemer and Friend
Love The Lord
Verse 1
Love the Lord your God with all your heart
With all your soul with all your mind
And with all your strength
(REPEAT)
Chorus 1
With all your heart with all your soul
With all your mind with all your strength
Love the Lord your God with all your heart
With all your soul with all your mind
And with all your strength
Verse 2
I will serve the Lord
With all my heart with all my soul
With all my mind and with all my strength
(REPEAT)
Chorus 2
With all my heart with all my soul
With all my mind with all my strength
I will serve the Lord with all my heart
With all my soul with all my mind
And with all my strength
Bridge
I will love You (I will love You)
I will praise You (I will praise You)
I will serve You (I will serve You)
I will trust You Lord (I will trust You)
Chorus 3
With all my heart with all my soul
With all my mind with all my strength
(REPEAT)
I will love You Lord with all my heart
With all my soul with all my mind
And with all my strength
(REPEAT 2X)
They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love
Verse 1
We are one in the Spirit
We are one in the Lord
We are one in the Spirit
We are one in the Lord
And we pray that all unity
May one day be restored
Chorus
And they’ll know we are Christians
By our love by our love
Yes they’ll know we are Christians
By our love
Verse 2
We will walk with each other
We will walk hand in hand
We will walk with each other
We will walk hand in hand
And together we’ll spread the news
That God is in our land
Verse 3
We will work with each other
We will work side by side
We will work with each other
We will work side by side
And we’ll guard each man’s dignity
And save each man’s pride
Verse 4
All praise to the Father
From whom all things come
And all praise to Christ Jesus
His only Son
And all praise to the Spirit
Who makes us one
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Guide for Living: Responsive Reading based on Matthew 22:37-40
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ [a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ [b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Leader: What is the great and first commandment?
People: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind.
Leader: What is the second commandment like it?
People: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Leader: What does this mean?
People: Love is the fulfilling of the law.
Leader: To what does this call us?
People: To a life of faith working through love.
Assurance of Pardon:
Isaiah 54:8
In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
Isaiah 43:25
“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your
sins no more.
Isaiah 44:22
I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me,
for I have redeemed you.”
Congregational Prayer
Gathering the Offering
The Gifts of God to His People
Hearing His Word: Luke 16:19-31
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and
longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s
side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him,
‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’ 25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son,
remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’ 27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ 29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ 30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ 31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
His Message: Minding the Gap​
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Prayer
God's Blessing
Song of Going Out
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Jesu Jesu Fill Us With Your Love
Verse 1
Kneels at the feet of His friends
Silently washes their feet
Master who acts as a slave to them
Verse 2
Neighbors are wealthy and poor
Varied in color and race
Neighbors are near us and far away
Chorus
Jesu Jesu
Fill us with Your love
Show us how to serve
The neighbors we have from You
Verse 3
These are the ones we should serve
These are the ones we should love
All these are neighbors to us and you
Jesu Jesu
Verse 4
Loving puts us on our knees
Serving as though we are slaves;
This is the way we should live with you
Chorus
Jesu Jesu
Fill us with Your love
Show us how to serve
The neighbors we have from You
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Postlude