Due to national emergency and state-wide ban on assembly amidst the spread of COVID-19, Citylight is not gathering for corporate worship on Sunday, May 3, 2020. Instead, we encourage you worship in your home—on your own or with family and friends. Below is a suggested order of worship with prayers, Scripture readings, songs and sermon.
Also, we invite you to join us on Zoom this Sunday at 9:45 a.m. for a time of worship. You can create a FREE account via the Zoom website (https://zoom.us) or app. For meeting link and ID, check Realm (https://onrealm.org/citylight) or email Stephanie Keith (skeith@citylightroanoke.com).
Note: Everything is outlined below, including embedded videos for songs and sermon. Scripture readings and song lyrics are also here on a PDF.
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GOD CALLS US TO WORSHIP
As able, log-in to Zoom meeting between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. to connect with other Citylighters. We will begin worship together at 10:00 a.m.
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CALL TO WORSHIP: 1 Peter 1:3-9; Titus 3:3-7 (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.
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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SONG: “Beautiful Savior” CCLI Song #2492216
Stuart Townend
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SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 55:6-11; 1 Peter 1:22-25 (ESV)
Isaiah 55:6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
1 Peter 1:22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
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SONG: “Sovereign Over Us” CCLI Song #6011370
Aaron Keyes | Bryan Brown | Jack Mooring
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PRAYER: If not on Zoom, spend several minutes in prayer.
- praise. Praise God for who He is — His presence, His character, His promises and His work.
- confession. Confess your sin to God and thank Him for the forgiveness which is ours in Christ Jesus.
- thanks and supplications. Remember the grace and mercy God has shown you. Bring your requests for the needs of others and yourself to God.
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GOD SPEAKS TO US IN HIS WORD
SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Peter 1:1-12 (ESV)
1 Peter:1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
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.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
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CHILDREN’ MESSASGE (Pastor Christian Beuggert)
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SERMON: 1 PETER 1:10-12 (Pastor Derek Lam)
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GOD CALLS US TO RESPONSE
SONG: “Man of Sorrows” CCLI Song #6476063
Brooke Ligertwood | Matt Crocker
Verse 1 Man of sorrows Lamb of God By His own betrayed The sin of man and wrath of God Has been on Jesus laid Verse 2 Silent as He stood accused Beaten mocked and scorned Bowing to the Father's will He took a crown of thorns Chorus Oh that rugged cross my salvation Where Your love poured out over me Now my soul cries out "Hallelujah" Praise and honor unto Thee Verse 3 Sent of heaven God's own Son To purchase and redeem And reconcile the very ones Who nailed Him to that tree Bridge Now my debt is paid It is paid in full By the precious blood That my Jesus spilled Now the curse of sin Has no hold on me Whom the Son sets free Oh is free indeed (repeat) Chorus Verse 4 See the stone is rolled away Behold the empty tomb Hallelujah, God be praised He's risen from the grave Chorus
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SONG: “Behold Our God” CCLI Song #5937510
Jonathan Baird | Meghan Baird | Ryan Baird | Stephen Altrogge
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SONG: “Joy of the Lord” CCLI Song #7047091
Chris Llewellyn | Ed Cash | Gareth Gilkeson
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GIVING: To worship in giving to the ministry of the gospel at Citylight, go HERE for instructions on how to give – https://citylightroanoke.com/give/.
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GOD SENDS US FOR WITNESS AND WORK IN THIS WORLD
SCRIPTURE READING: Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (ESV)
Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
2 Corinthians 4:16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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CLOSING PRAYER: Thank God for this time of worship this Sunday, and ask Him for blessing into this new week of witness and work, especially in these days of uncertainty and trouble.
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