This is week two of Ephesians at Park Church. As our society continues its trend toward self-centered and superficial worldviews, many have adopted a watered-down view of God that that leads us away from the glory we were made to enjoy. Ephesians shatters this diluted view of God by putting the weight of His glory in our faces in a way that is overwhelming and life-transforming.

Here’s how you can prepare for this Sunday:

1. Read through our text, Ephesians 1:3–14.

What does it mean to be blessed? Is it merely good circumstances? Material provision? Paul begins his letter with a beautiful poetic expression of praise to God for all that God has done to bless those who are “in Christ” He outlines these blessings in one of the most powerful and elaborate sentences ever written. In love, God predestined people from all nations to be adopted into His family as sons and daughters through the work of Jesus. Jesus has redeemed us from slavery to sin, forgiven us by His blood, and lavished His grace upon us to unite us to Himself as sons and daughters of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. He did all of this in order that the whole world might know and treasure His glorious grace.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 103:1–5, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

10,000 Reasons (Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman)
Doxology (Amen) (Louis Bourgeois, Thomas Ken, Phil Wickham)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Book of Common Prayer:

Lord I Need You (Carson, Maher, Nockels, Reeves, Stanfill)

Come Thou Fount (Above All Else) (Shane Barnard, Robert Robinson, John Wyeth)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: John 1:12–13

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

Ever Be (Strand, Greely, Wilson, Heiligenthal)
O Praise The Name (Anástasis) (Benjamin Hastings, Marty Sampson, Dean Ussher)

BENEDICTION

This week at Park Church, we begin 13 weeks in the book of Ephesians. As our society continues its trend toward self-centered and superficial worldviews, many have adopted a watered-down view of God that that leads us away from the glory we were made to enjoy. Ephesians shatters this diluted view of God by putting the weight of His glory in our faces in a way that is overwhelming and life-transforming.

1. Read through our text, Ephesians 1:1–2.

In Ephesians, we come face to face with the God whose glory is unsearchable, whose power is absolute, whose plan is indestructible, whose love is unconditional, whose mercy is expansive, and whose church is a breathtaking trophy of His grace. Paul’s letter is no stale exposition of abstract ideas. It is a passionate plea for his friends to see the reality of who God is, and to allow God’s Spirit to reshape every aspect of their lives in the light of His glory.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Ephesians 1:3–6, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

Doxology (Amen) (Louis Bourgeois, Thomas Ken, Phil Wickham)
Grace Alone (Dustin Kensrue)

CONFESSION OF SIN:

Come Thou Fount (Above All Else) (Shane Barnard, Robert Robinson, John Wyeth)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Ephesians 1:7–8

In Tenderness (Garvey, Gordon, Walton arr. Brian Eichelberger)

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

Jesus What A Savior (Kirby Kaple)
One Thing Remains (Christa Black, Brian Johnson, Jeremy Riddle)

BENEDICTION

This is our third and final week of Mission, our annual series on who we are and what we do as a church. Our topic this Sunday will be love for the city. Next week, we’ll begin Ephesians, taking us all the way to Advent. Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Luke 10:25–37.

God empowers His people to put on display His love for the world. You are God’s gesture of love for your neighbors, and you are called not only to “see” them, but to “feel compassion” and move toward them with sacrificial love. If this sounds familiar, remember Luke 15 and the Father who also “sees” us when we are a long way off, “feels compassion,” and “runs” toward us with sacrificial love. Our response is nothing less than reflecting God’s loving heart to those around us.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Ephesians 3:18–19, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

Be Thou My Vision (Mary Elizabeth Byrne, Eleanor Henrietta Hull, arr. Citizens & Saints)
Great Are You Lord (Jason Ingram, Leslie Jordan, David Leonard)

CONFESSION OF SIN: 1 John 4:19–20

All The Poor And Powerless (David Leonard, Leslie Jordan)

I Stand Amazed (How Marvelous) (Charles H. Gabriel)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: John 3:16–17

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

O Come To The Altar (Brock, Brown, Furtick, and Joye)
Take My Life And Let It Be (Frances Ridley Havergal, Henri Abraham Cesar Malan)

BENEDICTION

We’re in week two of this year’s Mission series, an annual discussion of who we are and what we do as a church. Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Philippians 2:1–11.

Loving the Church can be a hard task. Whether your experience with loving the Church has been muddied or simply hasn’t been interesting to you, caring for other people—Church people—is a real challenge. Maybe the question we should ask before trying to think of how we can love the Church is “How did Jesus love His Church?”

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 96:2–6, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

Beautiful (Phil Wickham)
Steadfast (Leslie Jordan, Sandra McCracken, Joshua Silverberg)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Isaiah 53:4–6

How Deep The Father’s Love For Us (Stuart Townend, arr. The Christian Year)

Jesus We Love You (Kalley Heiligenthal, Hannah McClure, Paul McClure)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: 2 Corinthians 5:14–17

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) (Joel Houston, Jonas Myrin)
Build My Life (Barrett, Kable, Martin, Redman, Younker)

BENEDICTION

This Sunday at Park Church, we’re beginning a three-week series called Mission, a discussion of who we are and what we do as a church. Around this time last year, a five-week series by the same name introduced our new mission statement: “We exist to make disciples of Jesus for the glory of God and the joy of all people.” Because we believe that being unified in our mission is critical, we’ll continue to return to this topic around this time each year!

Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, 1 John 3:1–3.

“Can you believe the kind of love that the Father has given to us—that we should be called the children of God? And so we are!” This expression from the Apostle John is an emotional outburst from a man who was enraptured by the love of God. Our prayer is that God would give us this same sort of joy as we consider together His love for His children.

In addition to 1 John 3:1–3, we’ll be looking at Luke 15:11–32 where Jesus shows us a picture of a Father who deeply loves His children and runs after them—even when they (we) run from Him in pride and shame. May God awaken our hearts to His breathtaking love.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 36:7–9, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

Come Thou Fount (Robert Robinson, John Wyeth)
Rejoice (Dustin Kensrue, Stuart Townend)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook:

Yet Even Now (Joel Limpic)
Good Good Father (Anthony Brown, Pat Barrett)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Romans 8:14–16

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

How Majestic (Brian Eichelberger)
Reckless Love (Cory Asbury, Caleb Culver, Ran Jackson)

BENEDICTION

It’s the 12th and final week of this year’s Christ in the Psalms, our annual summer series. This week we’ll be in Psalm 89. Next Sunday, August 19, we’ll return to our recurring Mission series for three weeks, discussing who we are and what we do as a church.

Our weekly Christ in the Psalms artwork is an oil painting by Irwin Peralta for Psalm 89. One of the ways we study and enjoy the psalms each year is by having different artists do a new piece from week to week for whichever psalm we’re in as a body. Learn about Irwin’s piece and all the preceding Christ In The Psalms artworks right here.

Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Psalm 89.

Psalm 89 is marked by tension. The psalmist begins with overwhelming praise to God for His steadfast love and His enduring faithfulness. He also praises God for the incredible promises that He made to David—that his Kingdom would endure forever. But then the tone shifts, and the psalmist essentially says “if all that is true, then why is David’s Kingdom in ruins!?” How do you respond in the gap between promise and fulfillment? This Psalm reveals both emotional honesty and an unwavering commitment to what the psalmist knows to be true about God.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Lamentations 3:22–23, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

It Is Well With My Soul (Horatio G. Spafford, Philip P. Bliss)
Man Of Sorrows (Matt Crocker, Brooke Ligertwood)

CONFESSION OF SIN: 1 John 1:5–6

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: 1 John 1:7–9

Steadfast (Leslie Jordan, Sandra McCracken, Joshua Silverberg)
Yes and Amen (Anthony Brown, Chris McClarney, Nate Moore)

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

Come All Ye Pining (Anne Steele, arr. Red Mountain)
O Praise The Name (Anástasis) (Benjamin Hastings, Marty Sampson, Dean Ussher)

BENEDICTION

It’s the 11th week of Christ in the Psalms, our annual summer series. This week we’ll be in Psalm 88.

For a few years now, one of the ways we study and enjoy the psalms is by having different artists do a piece each week for the respective psalm we’re in. Our artwork for Psalm 88 is a collage by Jeremy Grant. Learn more about Jeremy’s piece and all the preceding Christ In The Psalms artworks right here.

Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Psalm 88.

In Psalm 88, the author writes from a place of intense darkness, holding back no emotion from God and the human hearers of his song. His final line reads, “darkness is my only friend.” Jesus entered into our darkness that we might have hope in Him. Though darkness can last a long time, it shows us God’s grace and can teach us to have an indomitable spirit. Our Savior, no stranger to darkness Himself, meets us there.

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 121:1–2, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

God Is Able (Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan, arr. Shane and Shane)
King Of My Heart (John Mark McMillan, Sarah McMillan)
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us (Stuart Townend)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From Every Season Prayers by Scotty Smith:

Oh God (Zach Bolen)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Romans 8:1–4

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

Come Ye Sinners (Joseph Hart, arr. Robbie Seay)
Jesus Paid It All (Elvina Hall, Kristen Stanfill)

BENEDICTION

We’re in week ten of this year’s Christ in the Psalms, our annual summer series. This is week is Psalm 87.

One of the ways we study and enjoy the psalms each year is by having different artists do a piece each week for the respective psalm we’re in. Our artwork for Psalm 87 is an oil painting by Anna Spickard. Learn more about this piece and all the preceding Christ In The Psalms artworks right here.

Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Psalm 87.

The city of God is where glory resides, the place true satisfaction is found. Some remain outside this city. Others are within it, but live with lingering shadows of shame. Still others forget the radical grace that brought them in. Here we learn true glory—the King of the city dies to give life to the estranged, ashamed, and arrogant. And here we see genuine hope—the city and its citizens are being made whole again. “Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God.”

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

CALL TO WORSHIP: Revelation 4:8, 11, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

Doxology (Louis Bourgeois, Thomas Ken)
Great Is The Lord (Joseph Pat Barrett, Daniel Bashta, Ben Smith)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Ephesians 2:1–3

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Ephesians 2:4–10

Come Thou Fount (Robert Robinson, John Wyeth)
Build My Life (Barrett, Kable, Martin, Redman, Younker)

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

All Glory Be To Christ (Dustin Kensrue, arr. by Kings Kaleidoscope)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (John W. Work, arr. David Crowder Band)

BENEDICTION

We’re in Christ in the Psalms, our annual summer series. This is week nine and we’ll be in Psalm 86.

One of the ways we study and enjoy the psalms each year is by having different artists do a piece each week for the respective psalm we’re in. Our artwork for Psalm 86 is an acrylic and oil painting by Benjamin Rogers. Learn more about this piece and all the preceding Christ In The Psalms artworks right here.

Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Psalm 86.

David cries out for the protection of the Lord from a “band of ruthless men.” Among the interesting things to note is that, while praising his God as the only one who can save, he also asks God, “teach me Your way… unite my heart to fear Your name” (v. 11). David identifies that at least part of his deliverance will be a deliverance from his own rebellion against God.

2. Read, pray and sing through the service:

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 86:8–10, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

Oh! Great Is Our God (Brian Eichelberger)
How Great Thou Art (Stuart K. Hine)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Psalm 86:11

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

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Psalm 86:12–13; 1 Corinthians 15:55–56

Seas of Crimson (Johnson, Bashta, Taylor, Strand)

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

Rock Of Ages (Augustus Toplady, arr. Sojourn)
Lord I Need You (Carson, Maher, Nockels, Reeves, Stanfill)

BENEDICTION

This is week eight of Christ in the Psalms, our annual summer series. This week we’ll be in Psalm 85.

Our Psalm 85 artwork is by Hannah Wood. One of the ways we enjoy and study the psalms each year is by having different artists do a piece each week for the respective psalm we’re in. Learn more about Hannah’s artwork and all the preceding Christ In The Psalms artworks right here.

Here’s how you can prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Psalm 85.

Have you ever had a time in your life where God’s grace seemed clear and abundant? What was that time like? How do you emotionally respond to that time even right now? As you think about those times where God was experienced in unique ways, what does it do to your heart for your current situation? In Psalm 85, the psalmist is begging God for a restoration of “the good old days”—in part, at least, to reshape their desires for more of God.

2. Read, pray and sing through the service:

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 103:1–5, Welcome (From Immanuel Nashville):

10,000 Reasons (Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman)
Give Us Clean Hands (Charlie Hall)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Psalm 16:11

All I Have Is Christ (Jordan Kauflin)

Yes And Amen (Anthony Brown, Chris McClarney, Nate Moore)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Colossians 2:13–15

GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer

Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Thomas Obediah Chisholm, William Marion Runyan)
Revive Us Again (Charlie Hall, John J. Husband, William P. Mackay, Dustin Ragland)

BENEDICTION