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Our guest is Joel Limpic. He’s the Pastor of Liturgy & Arts at Park Church.This is our fifth week of Exodus at Park Church. In brief, Exodus is all about God’s mission to redeem a people for His Kingdom in this world. Here’s how you can prepare for our time together this week:
1. Read through our text, Exodus 3:1–22.
It was 40 years since Moses settled in Midian, and he was an 80-year-old man when God intervened in His life with one of the most powerful stories of the Bible. While shepherding a flock through the wilderness, the LORD appeared to him in the form of a burning bush and called Moses to speak with Him. The passage is bursting with themes that are foundational for our knowledge of God. First, He is holy, which means He is set apart as uniquely powerful and pure. His Holy presence is both captivating and terrifying. Second, He is the God who reveals Himself to His people. He reveals to Moses His covenant name, Yahweh, which indicates His mysterious and eternal existence (“I AM WHO I AM”). He is the God who was, and is, and ever shall be. Third, He is the God who speaks and acts with sovereign power, faithfulness, and compassion to redeem His covenant people and to draw them into His presence. Fourth, He is the God who calls His people to trust in His power and to participate in His mission to redeem the world for His glory.
2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:
CALL TO WORSHIP: Isaiah 6:1–3
Great Is The Lord (Joseph Pat Barrett, Daniel Bashta, Ben Smith)
What A Beautiful Name (Ben Fielding, Brooke Ligertwood)
CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook:
Our Father, forgive us for thinking small thoughts of You
and for ignoring Your immensity and greatness.
Lord Jesus, forgive us when we forget that You rule the nations and our small lives.
Holy Spirit, we offend You in minimizing your power
and squandering Your gifts.
We confess that our blindness to Your glory, O triune God,
has resulted in shallow confession,
tepid conviction, and only mild repentance.
Have mercy upon us.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Hebrews 10:19–23
Come Behold The Wondrous Mystery (Michael Bleecker, Matt Boswell, Matt Papa)
GREETING, SERMON, & RESPONSE:
O Come To The Altar (Brock, Brown, Furtick, and Joye)
COMMUNION
Heart Of God (Aodhan King, Jonas Myrin)
VOCATIONAL COMMISSIONING
Your Labor Is Not In Vain (Wendell Kimbrough, Isaac Wardell, Paul Zach)
BENEDICTION
It’s week four of Exodus at Park Church. In brief, Exodus is all about God’s mission to redeem a people for His Kingdom in this world. Here’s how you can prepare for our time together this week:
1. Read through our text, Exodus 2:23–25.
The previous ruler of Egypt died, and the people of Israel were suffering and desperately crying out for help and deliverance. The passage gives us unique insight into the heavenly realm where we see God paying attention to the cries of His people. God heard their groaning, indicating His care about their suffering. He remembered His covenant with Abraham, referring to His promise to make this His offspring into a great nation, to give them the land of Canaan, to bless them, and to make them a blessing to all nations. This promise is far from their current experience, and God saw the situation of His people and responded with deep concern and love. This short paragraph sets the stage for the whole story of deliverance that will follow, where God will show His power to redeem a people for His Kingdom.
2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:
CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 96:2–9
Great Is The Lord (Joseph Pat Barrett, Daniel Bashta, Ben Smith)
Rock Of Ages (Mary Elizabeth Byrne, Eleanor Henrietta Hull, arr. Charlie Hall)
CONFESSION OF SIN: Adapted From The Valley of Vision:
Heavenly Father, Save me entirely from sin. I know true righteousness comes only through the righteousness of another. I pant and pine for likeness to Yourself; I am Your child and should bear Your image. Enable me to recognize my death to sin; when it tempts me, may I be deaf to its voice. Deliver me from both the invasion and the dominion of sin. Grant me to walk as Christ walked, to live in the newness of His life: the life of love, the life of faith, the life of holiness. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Romans 8:14–17
No Longer Slaves (Joel Case, Jonathan David Hesler, Brian Johnson)
GREETING, SERMON, & RESPONSE:
Through And Through (Will Reagan)
COMMUNION
Before The Throne Of God (Charitie Lees Bancroft, arr. Shane & Shane)
Jesus What A Savior (Kirby Kaple)
BENEDICTION
We’re in week three of our study of the book of Exodus. Exodus is all about God’s mission to redeem a people for His Kingdom in this world. Here’s how you can prepare this week:
1. Read through our text, Exodus 2:1–22.
Into this this dark scene of death comes a beautiful ray of hope—a Hebrew woman who risked her life to preserve her newborn baby boy. She made a basket and put him in the river hoping against all hopes that he could somehow be spared from the death that surrounded her people. The baby was found by none other than Pharaoh’s own daughter who had compassion on him and decided to raise him as her own son. She named him Moses, which means “to draw out.” This would be the one that God would use to draw His people out of slavery and into His presence.
Years later, when Moses was grown, he saw the oppression of his own people, and he took vengeance into his own hands, killing an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew man. When this became known, Pharaoh sought to kill Moses, so Moses fled to the land of Midian. While sitting at a well in Midian, he protected seven daughters of a Midianite priest from a group of threatening shepherds. The scene closes with Moses settling with this Midianite family, marrying one of the sisters, Zipporah, and starting a family with her in Midian.
2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:
CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 86:8–10
The Lion and the Lamb (Brenton Brown, Brian Johnson, Leeland Mooring)
Great Are You Lord (Jason Ingram, Leslie Jordan, David Leonard)
CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook:
Merciful God,
for the things we have done that we regret, forgive us;
for the things we have failed to do that we regret, forgive us;
for all the times we have acted without love, forgive us;
for all the times we have reacted without thought, forgive us;
for all the times we have withdrawn care, forgive us;
for all the times we have failed to forgive, forgive us.
For hurtful words said and helpful words unsaid,
for unfinished tasks
and unfulfilled hopes,
God of all time,
forgive us and help us to lay down our burden of regret. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: From Romans 8:1, Colossians 1:13–14:
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Cornerstone (Bradbury, Liljero, Morgan, Mote, Myrin)
GREETING, SERMON, & RESPONSE:
Your Name Is Good (Psalm 54) (Joel Limpic, Scott Mills)
COMMUNION
Blessed Assurance (Fanny Crosby, Phoebe Palmer Knapp)
Living Hope (Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham)
BENEDICTION
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1:30 – Why We Decided To Do Exodus 6:15 – How We Try To Recreate Eden In Denver 7:50 – Why Everything You Need Is Found Outside Yourself 12:00 – How Exodus Fits Into The Overall Biblical Narrative 16:15 – Recommended Exodus ResourcesLinks
It’s week two of Exodus. The book of Exodus is all about God’s mission to redeem a people for His Kingdom in this world. Here’s how you can prepare this week:
1. Read through our text, Exodus 1:7–22.
A new Pharaoh rises to power in Egypt who didn’t know the story of Joseph’s deliverance of Egypt. He saw the people of Israel as a growing threat to His own Kingdom. Because of this fear, the new Pharaoh enslaved the people of Israel and subjected them to oppressive burdens. But the the more the Hebrews were oppressed, the more they multiplied. Pharaoh then escalated his oppressive treatment of the Hebrews, commanding their midwives to kill Hebrew sons as soon as they were born. When this plan was foiled by the faithful midwives, he commanded all of the Egyptians to take every son that was born to the Hebrews and throw them in the Nile. Far from a thriving Kingdom, the people of God are enslaved to overwhelming burdens and surrounded by death—they are desperate for deliverance.
2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:
CALL TO WORSHIP: Isaiah 41:10
Oh God (Zach Bolen)
How Firm A Foundation (Author Unknown)
CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook:
God of refuge and help,
hear us now as we make our confession to You.
In times of temptation
we forget what You have done for us.
You give us everything we need,
yet we often remain unsatisfied;
You trust us to care for creation,
yet we often abuse that trust
and spoil what we have been given.
You show us the way we are to follow,
yet we often continue on the path
of self-indulgence and self-centeredness.
Forgive us, we pray.
We ask for Your direction, Your patience, Your love, in the name of Jesus Christ,
who, in spite of His temptations,
was faithful to Your saving Word. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: From Isaiah 43:1–3
Blessed Be Your Name (Beth Redman, Matt Redman)
GREETING, SERMON, RESPONSE, & COMMUNION
In Tenderness (Garvey, Gordon, Walton arr. Brian Eichelberger)
Living Hope (Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham)