Apostle's Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His Only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; The third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in The Holy Ghost, The Holy Catholic Church, The Communion of Saints, The forgiveness of sin, The resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen. Response Reading: 77. John 3 PRES: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son CONG: that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life PRES: For God did not send his Son into the world CONG: to condemn the world PRES: but to save the world through him CONG: Whoever believes in him is not condemned PRES: but whoever does not believe stands condemned already CONG: because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son PRES: This is the verdict: Light has come into the world CONG: but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil PRES: Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light CONG: for fear that his deeds will be exposed PRES: But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light CONG: so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God Hymnal 28 v1 Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sin Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it, mount of Thy unchanging love v2 Here I raise my Ebenezer; Hither by Thy help I'm come And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God He, to rescue me from danger, interposed His precious blood v3 O to grace ho great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be; Let Your goodness like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above. Amen Passage: Colossians 3:5-17 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Hymnal 421 v1 Everything is changed since my sins were forgiven, everything is changed since I knew the Lord Now my feet are walking the pathway to heaven; all the guilty past now is under the blood Everything is changed, praise the Lord! Now I am redeemed thro' the blood Free from condemnation, God is my salvation, everything is changed, praise the Lord! v2 Everything is changed, to God's name be the glory! Light instad of darkness fills my soul everything is changed, 'tis the blessed old story; trusting Christ I'm now every whit made whole Everything is changed, praise the Lord! Now I am redeemed thro' the blood Free from condemnation, God is my salvation, everything is changed, praise the Lord! v3 Everything is changed since the Spirit possessed me, since He filled my heart with the Savior's love Since He took away all the fears that distressed me, helped me set my heart on the things above. Everything is changed, praise the Lord! Now I am redeemed thro' the blood Free from condemnation, God is my salvation, everything is changed, praise the Lord!