This is a weekly blog post with one purpose: to help those coming to Park’s Sunday gathering engage with the teaching and liturgy in a more meaningful way. We use this space to share in advance our Sunday’s liturgy: the scripture we’ll be studying, the songs we’ll be singing, and the prayers we’ll be praying together. We also share a handful of thoughts each week to help you use these things to prepare for the service. We return this Sunday to The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses for week 32 in the series. Here’s how you can prepare:

1. READ THROUGH OUR TEXT, ACTS 19:21-20:1.

Paul, en route to Jerusalem, stops in the city of Ephesus, well-known for its worship of Artemis, the popular goddess of fertility. The silversmiths were concerned for the profitability of their idol manufacturing business and the impacts the gospel would have on the local economy (and ultimately their livelihood). Again we find the gospel making its way throughout the region, confronting lies and idols, while calling people into right relationship with the God who created all things.

If Paul walked into Denver today and began preaching the gospel, what sorts of businesses do you think would feel threatened? What sorts of idols would be exposed? In what ways is God the ultimately fulfillment of each of those idols?

2. READ, PRAY AND SING THROUGH THE SERVICE.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Isaiah 44:6-8

Doxology How Great Thou Art (arr. by Citizens & Saints) Great Is The Lord (Housefires)

CONFESSION OF SIN:

(Together) Our Father In Heaven, we confess that in our quest for pleasure, wisdom, wealth and honor, we have sinned against you and have tried to find meaning without You. We use Your good gifts of time, wine, and work; We feast without looking to You as the giver of life and gifts. Please forgive us and remind us You are the Source of true life. Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You, our Creator and Redeemer. (From Frontline Church) On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand (Mote)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Psalm 62:5-8

Build My Life (Housefires)

SERMON

Give Us Clean Hands (Charlie Hall) All I Have Is Christ (Jordan Kauflin) Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

BENEDICTION & SENDING

This is a weekly blog post with one purpose: to help those coming to Park’s Sunday gathering engage with the teaching and liturgy in a more meaningful way. We use this space to share in advance our Sunday’s liturgy: the scripture we’ll be studying, the songs we’ll be singing, and the prayers we’ll be praying together. We also share a handful of thoughts each week to help you use these things to prepare for the service.

We return this Sunday to The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses for week 31 in the series. Here’s how you can prepare:

1. Read through our text, Acts 18:18–19:20.

The power and nature of God is richly demonstrated in this passage: We see that the Holy Spirit prevails against sickness and the evil practices of men, restoring bodies and helping people confess and forsake their sin. We see that one cannot simply speak of Jesus to wield His power—He must dwell within you as a result of union with Him.

Are you subject to the Holy Spirit, confessing and forsaking sin at His command; being healed? Do you speak the name of Jesus in faint hope, as someone who has heard rumors of Him, or in power, as one to whom He has bound Himself in His death and resurrection?

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Isaiah 55:1–3

Our Great God (Fernando Ortega)
Your Great Name (Krissy Nordhoff, Michael Neale, arr. Natalie Grant)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Isaiah 55:6–7

Holy Spirit (Bryan and Katie Torwalt, arr. by Kari Jobe)
Grace Alone (Dustin Kensrue)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Isaiah 55:10–13

SERMON

Hallelujah, What A Savior (Philip P. Bliss, arr. Austin Stone)
Yes And Amen (Brown, McClarney, Moore)

BENEDICTION & SENDING

This is a weekly blog post with one purpose: to help those coming to Park’s Sunday gathering engage with the teaching and liturgy in a more meaningful way. We use this space to share in advance our Sunday’s liturgy: the scripture we’ll be studying, the songs we’ll be singing, and the prayers we’ll be praying together. We also share a handful of thoughts each week to help you use these things to prepare for the service.

We’re taking a one-week break from The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses to discuss an important update to our church’s identity: a new, clarified mission statement. Here’s how you can prepare for this Sunday:

1. Read through our new mission statement a few times:

We exist to make disciples of Jesus for the glory of God and the joy of all people.

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: From Psalm 105:1–2; Romans 5:5; Revelation 4:8:

Fall Afresh (Jeremy Riddle)
Build My Life (Younker, Martin, Kable, Redman, and Barrett)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook:

Rising Sun (All Sons & Daughters)
Seas Of Crimson (Johnson, Bashta, Taylor, Strand arr. by Daniel Bashta)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Ephesians 2:4–7

SERMON

Your Great Name (Krissy Nordhoff, Michael Neale, arr. Natalie Grant)
All Glory Be To Christ (Dustin Kensrue, arr. by Kings Kaleidoscope)

BENEDICTION & SENDING

This is a weekly blog post with one purpose: to help those coming to Park’s Sunday gathering engage with the teaching and liturgy in a more meaningful way. We use this space to share in advance our Sunday’s liturgy: the scripture we’ll be studying, the songs we’ll be singing, and the prayers we’ll be praying together. We also share a handful of thoughts each week to help you use these things to prepare for the service. We’re in week 30 of The Book Of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses this weekend at Park Church. As you prepare for service, it may be helpful to (1) read through the text and (2) spend some time with the liturgy:

1. Read through our text, Acts 18:1–17.

What fears creep into your heart as you consider talking to others about Jesus? When Paul is “opposed and reviled” in Corinth, Jesus tells Paul two things: to refrain from fear because God is with Him, and to go on proclaiming the glorious Gospel.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 145:1–9

How Great Thou Art (Stuart Wesley Keene Hine) Build My Life (Younker, Martin, Kable, Redman, and Barrett)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Galatians 1:10

How Firm A Foundation (Robert Keene) It Is Finished (Pt. 2) (Red Mountain Church)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Romans 1:16

SERMON & COMMUNION

We Will Feast In The House Of Zion (Sandra McCracken) No Longer Slaves (Jonathan Helser, Melissa Helser)

BENEDICTION & SENDING

This is a weekly blog post with one purpose: to help those coming to Park’s Sunday gathering engage with the teaching and liturgy in a more meaningful way. We use this space to share in advance our Sunday’s liturgy: the scripture we’ll be studying, the songs we’ll be singing, and the prayers we’ll be praying together. We also share a handful of thoughts each week to help you use these things to prepare for the service.

At Park Church this Sunday, we’re in week 29 of The Book Of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. As you prepare for service, it may be helpful to read through the text and spend some time with the liturgy. We’ve prepared that for you below!

1. Read through our text, Acts 17:16–34.

In Athens, the culture was such that its people “would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.” What they heard from Paul was indeed “new” to them in some ways, but perhaps the most interesting news was something they already knew by their own writers, that “we are indeed His offspring.”

What does this mean? Image-bearing men and women, created by His hands, “ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.” For as many false gods as there were in Athens, the Divine Himself had come as a man, and we know Him because we are made by Him in His image. What else do we know? This Man, Jesus, comes again to judge mankind in righteousness, a truth firmly assured by His defeat of death; His glorious resurrection.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 148:1–6

All Creatures Of Our God And King (William Henry Draper, St. Francis of Assisi)
Beautiful (Phil Wickham)

CONFESSION OF SIN: by Daniel T. Benedict and Taylor Burton-Edwards

Yet Even Now (Joel Limpic)
Man Of Sorrows (Matt Crocker, Brooke Ligertwood)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: 1 Corinthians 15:20–22

SERMON & COMMUNION

Forever Reign (Morgan Reuben, Jason Ingram)
King Of My Heart (John Mark McMillan, Sarah McMillan)

BENEDICTION & SENDING