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The Lord's Day, 20 December 2009

Welcome to Beal Heights Presbyterian Church
a member congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America
614 SW Park Avenue, Lawton, Oklahoma 73501
(580) 355-4702 / www.bealheights.org / info@bealheights.org
The Elders: John O. Butler, Pastor / Mike Rogers, Clerk / Todd Cobb
Deacon: Michael R. Rogers

BHPC observes the Lord's Supper weekly. We invite all professing Christians whose membership is in good standing with an evangelical, Bible-believing congregation to join with us at the Lord's Table. If you desire to partake of the Supper, please contact one of the elders for a short interview. You may do this prior to Sunday through the church office or via email, or arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the morning worship service. If you have not been interviewed, we ask that you refrain from taking the Supper.

A Few Notes About Our Services
* If you are visiting with us today, please help us to get to know you by filling out one of the blue cards in the pew racks and placing it in the offering plate when the offering is collected.
* When the prelude begins, please curtail conversation and prepare your hearts for worship. Please make sure electronic devices are off or using silent mode.
* We love children in our worship services! For our parents, there is a Cry Room in the back of the sanctuary for calming children in order to return to the worship service. We also offer a Visitors' Nursery for children 3 and under. If you wish to utilize it, please speak with the greeter for directions.
* Hearing assistance devices are available at the taping table.
* If you should need assistance in any way, please speak with our greeter.

Announcements for December 20, 2009
(see the church calendar)
*Today we are taking up an offering for our Building Refurbishment and Replacement Fund.
*Our annual Congregational Meeting will be next Sunday, December 27, 2009, after the morning worship service in the sanctuary.
*Mark your calendars for a Fifth Wednesday Hymn Sing & Dessert Fellowship on Wednesday, December 30th, at 7 PM at the church.

Beal Heights Presbyterian Church
The Morning Worship Service, 10:45 AM
Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Prelude
Welcome and Announcements
Sharing of Praises and Prayer Requests
We silently prepare our hearts for worship

*The call to worship Almighty God
*Hymn 195 “Joy to the World”
*Prayer of Adoration and Invocation, with The Lord's Prayer
*Confessing the Faith The Nicene Creed page 846

Old Testament Reading: Joshua 5
*Psalm 40B “I Waited Long upon the LORD”
New Testament Reading: Matthew 11

Corporate Confession of Sin:

Oh God, You are wise in heart, mighty in strength, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Yet You do not clear the guilty, and no one who hardens himself against You can prosper. You have commanded us to give the best of our lives to You from a free and willing heart. You have said that our very lives themselves are to be as a holy freewill offering to You, the God of our fathers. Yet we confess that our minds have sometimes served our sins and fleshly desires, so that even our attempts at obedience have been tainted with a grudging heart. Yet You have provided a freewill offering for us, the covenant blood of Jesus Christ, whereby You take away our sins. Therefore, we ask that for Jesus' sake alone, You would heal our backsliding and love us freely. Renew Your Spirit in our hearts and minds that out of peace with You we may serve You willingly and freely, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. In His name, we pray. Amen.

The Promise of God's Pardoning Grace: Hebrews 10: 4, 12, 14

Prayer of Intercession and Thanksgiving

The Sermon “Entrusted with the Gospel”
Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-6 We pray for grace to apply what we have learned

*Hymn 213 “What Child Is This”

The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
(All those who have been previously approved by our elders are invited to partake of the Supper. Others are invited to watch and pray)
Words of Institution
Fencing of the Table
Prayer of Consecration
Distribution of the Supper
Prayer of Thanksgiving

The Offering
*The Doxology (Hymnal 731)
*Prayer

*Hymn 208 “O Come, All Ye Faithful”
*Benediction
Silent Prayer (Seated)
The Postlude: We go forth to glorify God

*the congregation will please stand

The Evening Worship Service
Sunday, December 20, 2009

5:30 PM
Singing of Songs, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
Prayer

6:00 PM
The Call to Worship
Invocation
Maroon hymnal 168 “Angels, from the Realms of Glory”

Reading of God's Word:
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 42
New Testament Reading: Romans 11

Sermon “The Voice of God”
Text: Deuteronomy 5:22-33

Maroon hymnal 174 “As with Gladness Men of Old”
Closing Prayer
Benediction