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.

This week at Park Church, we’ll take a one-week break from The Book of Acts as Brandon Washington joins us, teaching from 1 Corinthians 1:10–17. Consider doing a couple things as you prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, 1 Corinthians 1:10–17.

In our text this week, Paul addresses divisions in the church, admonishing believers to “be united in the same mind and the same judgment.”

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Revelation 4:8–11; 5:9–10

Revelation Song (Jennie Lee Riddle)
Yes And Amen (Anthony Brown, Chris McClarney, Nate Moore)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook

Let Justice Roll Like A River (Rebecca Elliott, Bobby Gilles)
Be Thou My Vision (Author Unknown, arr. by Ascend The Hill)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Ephesians 2:13–18

SERMON & COMMUNION

We Will Feast In The House Of Zion (Sandra McCracken)
Oh Holy Night (Placide Cappeau)

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 25 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 15:1–35.

In our text this week, a heated debate has arisen about the tension between man’s performance of the law and the saving grace of Jesus. After the law-fulfilling work of Jesus on their behalf, do Gentile (non-Jewish) converts to Christianity still need to be circumcised to be saved by the God of the Jews? This all points to a bigger question—besides receiving the free gift of salvation through faith, what must I practically do to be saved? Although a perennial “performance culture” would persuade us otherwise, it’s unspeakably good news that God saves us by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 145:1–7

Oh! Great Is Our God (The Sing Team)
Grace Alone (Dustin Kensrue)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook

Yet Even Now (Joel Limpic)
Rock of Ages (Augustus Toplady, Charlie Hall)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Ephesians 2:4–9

SERMON & COMMUNION

His Mercy Is More (Matt Boswell, Matt Papa)
No Longer Slaves (Jonathan & 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.

We’re in week 24 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 14.

Barnabas and Paul continue their Church-planting endeavors throughout the region of Asia Minor. Along their pilgrimage, they encounter different responses to the Gospel in Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. How they interacted with these different Gospel-responses should shape us as a Church in how we live in and for our city.

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Hebrews 12:1–2

All Creatures Of Our God And King (William Henry Draper and St. Francis of Assisi)
Come Thou Fount (Robert Robinson, John Wyeth)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook

All I Have Is Christ (Jordan Kauflin)
Your Great Name (Krissy Nordhoff, Michael Neale)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: 1 John 1:8–9

SERMON & COMMUNION

Yet Even Now (Joel Limpic)
Hallelujah, What A Savior (Philip P. Bliss, arr. Austin Stone)

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 25 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 13:13–52.

The narrative of the first missionary journey of Paul continues in this week’s text, bringing us to Antioch in Pisidia (modern day Turkey). With Barnabas, Paul teaches that in Jesus, one can be freed from everything that they could not be freed from under the law of Moses. The response of the listeners is predictably polar: they either believe and plead with the apostles to keep teaching them about Jesus, or they conspire against them for their harm. Although the persecution causes Paul and Barnabas to leave the area, they are nonetheless “filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.”

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 16:1–2; 5–11

Mighty To Save (Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan)
Good Good Father (Anthony Brown, Pat Barrett)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook

King Of My Heart (John Mark McMillan, Sarah McMillan)
Jesus Is Better (Aaron Ivey)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Acts 13:38–39

SERMON & COMMUNION

Yes And Amen (Anthony Brown, Chris McClarney, and Nate Moore)
His Mercy Is More (Matt Boswell, Matt Papa)

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 22 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 13:1–12.

The text this week presents us with two scenes inside one story. First, we see the church in Antioch being bold in prayer and worship, responding in obedience when the Spirit directs them to do the uncomfortable, difficult thing of sacrificing in order for the Gospel go forth from them. Second, we see the men they sent forth from Antioch to Cyprus—Paul and Barnabas—being invited over by the local Roman ruler to share the word of God with him. They confront his dark-magic-practicing court magician when he tries to turn the ruler from the Gospel message, Paul temporarily blinding the magician by the power of the Spirit. The Roman ruler believes. Both scenes go to teach us that, by the Spirit, the Gospel will go forth.

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 103:1–5

Come Thou Fount (Robert Robinson)
Praise To The Lord The Almighty (Joachim Neander, arr. Citizens)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Psalm 79:9

God I Look To You (Jenn Johnson)
Cornerstone (Bradbury, Liljero, Morgan, Mote, Myrin)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Psalm 103:8–12

SERMON & COMMUNION

In Tenderness (Brian Eichelberger)
Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) (Matt Crocker, Joel Houston, Salomon Ligthelm)

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.

This Sunday at Park, we’re in week 21 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 12.

This chapter shows a recurring theme of the opposing kingdoms of God and man. We see that the kingdoms of man are vainly built on the praise of man, glory, power, and comfort, and are quickly and surely dismantled. Conversely, the Kingdom of God is first firmly established on the glory of Christ’s Victory, then spread through the suffering, sacrifice, and servanthood of His people as they practice what they’ve already seen Him do. The text shines a searchlight into our hearts, pointed right at our little kingdoms, and asks us, “Which kingdom will you live and die for?”

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 145:1–3; 10–13

Before the Throne (Charitie Lees Bancroft, arr. by Citizens & Saints)
Fall Afresh (Jeremy Riddle)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Matthew 6:9–13

Your Name Is Good (Psalm 54) (Joel Limpic, Scott Mills)
Stonger (Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON:Revelation 5:5, 9–10

SERMON & COMMUNION

Psalm 32:6–7 (Mark Wilkins)
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.

This Sunday at Park, we’re in week 21 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 12.

This chapter shows a recurring theme of the opposing kingdoms of God and man. We see that the kingdoms of man are vainly built on the praise of man, glory, power, and comfort, and are quickly and surely dismantled. Conversely, the Kingdom of God is first firmly established on the glory of Christ’s Victory, then spread through the suffering, sacrifice, and servanthood of His people as they practice what they’ve already seen Him do. The text shines a searchlight into our hearts, pointed right at our little kingdoms, and asks us, “Which kingdom will you live and die for?”

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

This week, Psalm 32 will play a role in our liturgy and singing. In 2015, a handful of musicians from Park Church recorded and released an album for Psalm 32, word-for-word from the text. As you prepare, you may consider listening through it. It may even help you memorize the Psalm! Click here to listen for free.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 108:1–5

Praise To The Lord The Almighty (Joachim Neander)
Behold Our God (Stephen Altrogge, Jonathan Baird, Meghan Baird, and Ryan Baird)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Psalm 32:1–4

Oh God (Zach Bolen)
One Thing Remains (Christa Black, Brian Johnson, and Jeremy Riddle)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Psalm 32:5–7

SERMON & COMMUNION

Psalm 32:6–7 (Mark Wilkins)
Be Thou My Vision (Author Unknown, arr. by Ascend The Hill)

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.

This Sunday at Park, we’re in week 19 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 9:32–11:18.

The Church Calendar season of Epiphany, our current season, celebrates the marvelous truth that Jesus is the Savior of the whole world, and not Jews only. While that may seem obvious to the modern-day believer, it should be no less baffling to us today than it was to the disciples in Acts 11:18. Throughout history and in all of the Bible up to this point, God had chosen but one people—the Jews—to know Him and be His witnesses. Through the work of Jesus, we still marvel that “to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 103:1–5

Fall Afresh (Jeremy Riddle)
Rising Sun (All Sons & Daughters)

CONFESSION OF SIN: Matthew 6:9–13

Grace Alone (Dustin Kensrue)
I Love You Lord (Laurie Klien)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Romans 10:9–13
GREETING

SERMON & COMMUNION

Break Every Chain (Will Reagan)
Hallelujah, What A Savior (Philip P. Bliss, arr. Austin Stone)

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.

This Sunday at Park, we’re in week 18 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 9:19b–31.

As we saw with Jesus Himself, Paul the preacher of Jesus’ Gospel speaks boldly to the heart of his hearers, resulting in his persecution. We observe that this model of following Christ—preaching the Gospel and suffering persecution for its sake—is truly what discipleship entails.

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm Psalm 19:1–4

Our Great God (Fernando Ortega)
Great Are You Lord (All Sons & Daughters)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook

His Mercy Is More (Matt Boswell, Matt Papa)
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) (John Newton, Chris Tomlin)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: 2 Corinthians 5:14–15; 17–21

GREETING

SERMON & COMMUNION

In Tenderness (Brian Eichelberger)
All The Poor And Powerless (All Sons & Daughters)

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.

This Sunday at Park, we’re in week 17 of The Book of Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses. Here are a couple things you can do to prepare for this week’s service:

1. Read through our text, Acts 8:26–40.

An angel of the Lord instructs Philip to head south from Jerusalem on the road to Gaza. He does as told and meets an Ethiopian eunuch, sitting in his chariot on the way to Jerusalem, reading Isaiah and struggling to understand who this Suffering Servant must be. Philip tells him about Jesus, and the man immediately believes and desires to be baptized, so it happens. As they come up from the water, Philip is carried away by the Spirit and the Eunuch goes “on his way rejoicing.”

This passage teaches us that the Holy Spirit empowers us to share good news that brings great joy to people—people who need it. As you prepare this week, consider who the people are in your life that need to hear good news and receive joy. Look back through the text; how does the Holy Spirit empower you to do this work?

When Philip meets the eunuch, he’s reading from Isaiah 53. In your preparation this week, consider making use of these Isaiah 53 entries by The Verses Project. Simply put, The Verses Project provides musical and visual art to help people memorize and meditate on scripture. We think this is a great resource for personal and corporate devotion!

2. Read, pray and sing through the service.

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 98:1–3

Before The Throne of God (Charitie Lees Bancroft, arr. Modern Post)
Be Thou My Vision (Author Unkown, arr. Ascend The Hill)

CONFESSION OF SIN: From The Worship Sourcebook

Christ Or Else I Die (William Hammond, arr. Red Mountain Church)
Jesus Paid It All (Elvina Hall, Kristian Stanfill)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: 1 John 1:5–7

GREETING

SERMON & COMMUNION

How Marvelous (I Stand Amazed) (Charles H. Gabriel)
All I Have Is Christ (Jordan Kauflin)

BENEDICTION & SENDING