Sermon Notes May 24, 2015 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (pew Bible page 970) “His Grace is Enough” The Reverend Richie Sessions Senior Pastor
Officer Election Results 2015
Deacons
Elders
David Butler Stephen Atkins Craig Christenbury Matthew Buyer Robert Hicks Samuel Graham John Kakales Lee Greene Calvin Purcell John Jurey Howard Timothy Rainey George Leavell James Wilder Matthew Olson There will be a second ballot on Sunday, May 31, from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., for the purpose of electing Alex Ransone to the office of Deacon and achieving the desired number of Deacons as recommended by the Congregation.
VBS 2015
Space Trek is going to be a blast! Register to be a VBS Leader. Scan the code below to register. Download the QR Code Scanner App.
Welcome to IPC
Visitors are special at IPC. Please fill out the Friendship Pad and pass it down the aisle so that we will know you were here. Join us on Wednesday evenings for our Fellowship Dinner at 5:30 p.m., followed by an Adult Bible Study, Small Groups and youth and children’s programs at 6:30 p.m. Visitors interested in joining IPC are invited to attend our next Pathway Class for Prospective Members. For more information, please contact the Church Office, 901.685.8206. A fully staffed nursery is available during all services.
The Flowers
The flowers in the Sanctuary are given to the glory of God by Mr. and Mrs. Cannon Fairfax Allen Jr., in loving memory of Mr. and Mrs. Newton Perkins Allen Sr., Mr. and Mrs. A. Michael Cusick Jr., and Mr. Wilford Henderson Reneau. Mrs. Allen is the former Miss Megan Reneau.
Our Church Today | May 24
8:30 a.m......................................................................................Worship Service. 8:30 a.m..................K-Church (Kindergarten) and Jr. Church (Grades 1 & 2) 9:45 a.m...................................................Sunday School (IPC Fellowship Hall) 11:00 a.m......................................................................................Worship Service. 11:00 a.m................K-Church (Kindergarten) and Jr. Church (Grades 1 & 2) 3:30 p.m.......................................................................Sr. High Ensemble Rehearsal 5:00 p.m........................................................................Sr. High Choir Rehearsal
Our Church Wednesday | May 27 4:00 p.m...................................................................Sr. High Ensemble Rehearsal 5:00 p.m...........................................................................Sr. High Choir Rehearsal 5:30 p.m. ..........................................................................Dinner, Fellowship Hall 6:15 p.m..................................Sr. High Choir Commissioning, Fellowship Hall 6:30 p.m. ......................................“Ministry of Mercy — Love; Love Expressed” 6:30 p.m. ...........................................................“That Thing” — Romper Room 6:30 p.m. .....................................................Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Groups 7:30 p.m. .............................................................................Adult Choir Rehearsal
Summer Mission Trips Tanzania | May 13-28,2015 | Uganda | May 29-June 6 Rwanda | June 6-14 ~Please enjoy your coffee outside of the Sanctuary. Thank you.~ Audio recordings of this morning’s sermon are available in the bookstore immediately following the 8:30 worship service, or during the following week on the internet at www.indepres.org.
Come help decorate the church for VBS June 1, 2, or 3, from 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. For more information contact Elizabeth Fowlkes at efowlkes@indepres.org
Wednesday Evenings@IPC Summer Schedule May|June Mercy Ministry in Memphis | IPC Fellowship Hall, 6:30 p.m.
Independent Presbyterian Church Memphis, Tennessee
May 27..................................................... “Ministry of Mercy - Love; Love Expressed” June 3............................“Ministry Partners - Loving Memphis: God’s Love for Justice” June 10...........................................................................................VBS Outreach Picnic June 17..............“Ministry Partners - Loving Memphis: God’s Love for the Fatherless” June 24...............“Ministry Partners - Loving Memphis: God’s Love for the Sojourner”
SUNDAY SCHOOL ELECTIVES JUNE 2015
The Final Apologetic | Parker Tenent | Chapel The Big Story of the Bible | Mike Malone | Room 237 Addiction, Estrangement, Terminal Illness: Ministering To Others in Difficult Places | Stephen Guenther and Ed Norton | Room 132 Pathway Class | Murray Garrott | Third Floor Conference Room | 6 Sessions The Book of Job | Rankin Fowlkes | Fellowship Hall North Lost and Found, Luke 15 | Jeremy Jones and Nate Kellum |Fellowship Hall South Loving Jesus and the Sanctifying Grace of Keeping His Commandments, John 14 and 15 Jurey Howard | Room 130 Christianity Explored | Feb Boswell | Bride’s Room The History of Southern Presbyterianism | David Dunlap | Groom’s Room For The Life of The World, Part One | Samuel Husband | Room 131 Sign up sheets are available in the Rotunda.
The Mission of Independent Presbyterian Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ in Memphis, calling them into a devoted community of worshiping and maturing believers, and sending them out to be salt of the earth and light in the world, all to the glory of God.
The Lord’s Day Worship
The Twenty-Fourth Day of May, Two Thousand and Fifteen Eight-Thirty and Eleven O’clock
“Intrada Festiva” Wood Jennifer Velázquez, Organist
The Call to Worship The Congregation:
The Doxology
8:30 and 11:00 a.m. services
Heidi Marie Thompson, 11:00 a.m.
The Confession of Sin
Our lives are cluttered, Lord Jesus, by too many things and too much to do. We are driven by the need to succeed and distracted from our service. We have often lost our way. Forgive us. Let us, like Mary, find the one thing that is needed and sit at Your feet. Amen. — The Worship Sourcebook
— based on Psalm 103:1-8; 118:24
“This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Again today we come together to worship— the God of creation, of salvation, of time and eternity; the God of all peoples, of all nations, of all conditions of people everywhere.
The Minister:
Praise the Lord., All that is within me, Praise God’s holy name. Praise the Lord and remember all His kindnesses: in forgiving our sins; in curing our diseases; in saving us from destruction; in surrounding us with love. The Minister and the Congregation: The Lord is full of mercy and compassion. The Lord is slow to anger and willing to give us gifts of love. Praise the Lord! Oh, all that is within me, praise the Lord.” The Reverend Ed Norton Associate Pastor
The Assurance of Pardon
“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
No. 53
The Invocation and The Lord’s Prayer
O
ur 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.
The Gloria Patri
Regent Square Glory be to God the Father, and to Christ His only Son; praise we too the Holy Spirit, binding all the church in one: as it was in the beginning, is for now and ever more. Amen. Please sign and pass the Friendship Pad at this time.
“A Jubilant Song” arr. Pote James A. Brown, Jr., Director Sing to the Lord a jubilant song. Rejoice and sing and let the earth be glad, Let the heavens be filled with joy. Sing alleluia to the Lord, alleluia. Tell of His salvation from day to day. Shout His marv’lous works among the people. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised.
Smith/arr. Powell
“My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less” Elaine Clowers, Soprano Lauren Conley and Mary Wright, Violins Daniel Strawser, Cello
Lord, You have been our refuge from one generation to another. Before the mountains were made, or the land and the sea were born, From age to age You are God, And we pray for the coming of Your Kingdom. We shall rejoice, we shall be glad all the days of our lives.
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ name. When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. On Christ the Solid Rock, I stand; all other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand. His oath, His covenant, His blood support me in the whelming flood; When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my hope and stay.
The Processional Hymn
The Offertory
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” — Romans 5:1-2
The Song of Assurance
Hyfrydol
Alleluia! Alleluia! Glory be to God on high; Alleluia to the Savior, who has won the victory; Alleluia to the Spirit, fount of love and sanctity. Alleluia! Alleluia to the Triune Majesty. Amen.
The Sacrament of Baptism
The Prelude
The Minister:
The Commissioning for Uganda and Rwanda
The Sermon
When He shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in Him be found; Dressed in His righteousness alone, I stand—I stand before the throne.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (pew Bible page 970) “His Grace is Enough” The Reverend Richie Sessions Senior Pastor
The Statement of Faith
Heidelberg Catechism, Q. 1 The Minister: What is your only comfort, in life and in death? The Congregation: That I belong, body and soul, in life and in death, not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of His own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil; that He protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit His purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.
The Hymn of Response
“Amazing Grace!” No. 460
The Benediction The Choral Response “His Kingdom Is Forever” The Postlude
Young
“Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven” arr. W.T. Allen