Service Order for 9:00 AM
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell

Prelude: You Are My All In All  (Carl Festin, Village Church of Gurnee)

Welcome: Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park

Worship in Song (Carl Festin)

Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman

 Higher Ground – Hymn 355 – Verses 1&2

Old Testament Reading:  Psalm 39 (ESV)

Songs for Reflection written and performed by Carl Festin

           My Heart Could Not Beat   

            When Your Love Comes Down

 New Testament Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9 (ESV)

1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Prayer Adam Dolezal, Christ Church Lake Forest

Message—Adam Dolezal,   “Who is this King of Glory?  He is our hope!”

Response: Carl Festin

Benediction: Adam Dolezal

Postlude: Great Is Thy Faithfulness – Carl Festin

Barbara Shafer (SeminaryGal) brings her Created to BE series to life in a worship retreat at Conference Point Center in Lake Geneva, WI on May 19-20, 2012.  Community Protestant Church is sponsoring this weekend retreat as we discover all we were Created to…BE by the Potter’s hand (e.g. Image Bearers, Blessed, Individuals, In and For Community, Priests, Rulers, Stewards, and Worshipers).  We conclude with a Sunday morning worship service and a message from the book of Deuteronomy about Finding True Life in the Blessing of BE-ing.

This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you
that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.
Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.

For the LORD is your life,
and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Service Order for 9:00 AM
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell

Prelude: Allan Koetz

Welcome: Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park

Worship in Song (Allan Koetz) 

• O Worship the King
• How Deep the Father’s Love For Us

Old Testament Reading:   Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (NIV)

New Testament Readings:  John 3:16  “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (NIV)

John 13:1 It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. 2 The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 8 “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.” 9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” 10 Jesus answered, “A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean. 12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. (NIV)

John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (NIV)

Worship in Song (performed by Allan Koetz)–How Great

Prayer

Message—Barbara Shafer “The Night Love Came to Dinner”.

In our new series, “Who is this King of Glory?” we are answering the question, Who is God?   Today we see, “He is Love” and we see three aspects of love in this message entitled “The Night Love Came to Dinner”.

1. True Love is Humble
2. True Love Serves Others
3. True Love is Modeled after Jesus Christ.

 Response in song (Allan Koetz)  My Jesus I Love Thee

Benediction: Barbara Shafer

Postlude: Allan Koetz

Service Order for 9:00 AM
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell

Prelude: Allan Koetz

Welcome: Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park

Worship in Song (Allan Koetz)

Old Testament Reading:  Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…

Worship in Song (Allan Koetz)

New Testament Reading John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

Prayer

Message—Barbara Shafer “He is the Creator.

In our new series, “Who is this King of Glory?” we are answering the question, Who is God? Today we see, “He is the Creator” and we look at the foundational understanding of God as Creator.

The two stanza hymn found in Colossians 1:15-20 shows God as Creator and creates a firm separation between who God is and what He created.

Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Response in song (Allan Koetz)

Benediction: Barbara Shafer

Postlude: Allan Koetz