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:

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:

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: From Romans 8:1, Colossians 1:13–14:

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

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:

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)

BENEDICTION

We thrilled to begin a new series this Sunday in the book of Exodus. Exodus will take us through the spring and early summer, breaking for three months for Christ in the Psalms and a brief topical series before picking back up in September to take us to Advent. Get comfortable! The book of Exodus is all about God’s mission to redeem a people for His Kingdom in this world and we’re excited to get started learning together. Here’s how you can prepare for this week:

1. Read through our text, Exodus 1:1–7.

The story begins where Genesis ended: Jacob (Israel), his sons, and their families (70 people in all), have come to Egypt under the care of Joseph, one of the twelve sons of Israel. By God’s sovereign grace, and through much suffering, Joseph had come into a position of power in Egypt and was able to create a space for his family to grow and thrive under his protection. Even after Joseph and his generation had died, the people of Israel continued to be “fruitful,” to “multiply,”and to “fill the land.” This is a direct reference to the mission of God’s people repeated throughout Genesis. But as much as they were able to grow in Egypt, they were still in a foreign place, with a foreign ruler, and foreign gods—a far cry from the life that God had promised to their forefather Abraham.

2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:

CALL TO WORSHIP: Exodus 15:11, 13

The Lion And The Lamb (Brenton Brown, Brian Johnson, Leeland Mooring)
Praise To The Lord The Almighty (Joachim Neander, Catherine Winkworth arr. Citizens)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Psalm 32:1–4

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Psalm 32:5–7

What A Beautiful Name (Ben Fielding, Brooke Ligertwood)

GREETING, SERMON, & RESPONSE

Your Name Is Good (Psalm 54) (Joel Limpic, Scott Mills)

COMMUNION

Heart Of God (Aodhan King, Jonas Myrin)
Man Of Sorrows (Matt Crocker, Brooke Ligertwood)

BENEDICTION

This is our fourth and final week of Teach Us to Pray, our mini-series on the Lord’s Prayer. Here’s how you can prepare for service:

1. Read through our text, Matthew 6:9–13.

Last week, we focused on the first three petitions of the prayer—the “Your” petitions: Hallowed be Your name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done… This week, we’ll end our time with the three “us” petitions: Give us our daily bread, forgive us, lead us not into temptation.

2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 36:7–9

Come Thou Fount (Robert Robinson, John Wyeth arr. Page CXVI)
New (Bryan Brown, Tofer Brown, Kate York)

CONFESSION OF SIN:

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: 1 John 1:7–9

Nothing But The Blood (Robert Lowry arr. Page CXVI)
Establish The Work Of Our Hands (Isaac Wardell)

GREETING, SERMON, RESPONSE, & COMMUNION

We Will Feast In The House Of Zion (Sandra McCracken)

VOCATIONAL SENDING & PRAYER

Your Labor Is Not In Vain (Wendell Kimbrough, Isaac Wardell, Paul Zach)

BENEDICTION