February 22, 2026

(Apostles’ Creed)

Preaching: Pastor Dan Borvan

Call to Worship: Psalm 150:1-2 

Invocation: Psalm 97:9

For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;

you are exalted far above all gods.

Reading of the Law: James 2:8-10

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Old Testament Lesson: Psalm 42:1-11

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation 6 and my God.

My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

New Testament Lesson: Mark 14:32-42

And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34 And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” 35 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 37 And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 39 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. 40 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. 41 And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”

Sermon: “Watch and Pray”

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 110-A) “The Lord Said to My Lord”

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 40-A) “I Waited Long Upon the Lord” (Verses 1-5)

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – #277) “Before the Throne of God Above”

Afternoon Worship Bulletin 

*Call to Worship: Psalm 72:18-19

*God’s Greeting: 1 Timothy 1:2

*Psalm #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 25-B) “Lord, to You I Lift My Soul” Psalm of the Month

*Prayer for Illumination

*The Old Testament Lesson: Exodus 31:12-18

*The New Testament Lesson: Romans 10:14-15

Confessional Reading: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 38

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 34-A) “I Will at All Times Bless the Lord” (Verses 1-4)

*Benediction