May 18, 2025

(Nicene Creed)

Preaching: Rev. Dan Borvan

Call to Worship: Psalm 106:1

Invocation: Psalm 106:4

Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;
help me when you save them.

Reading of the Law: Matthew 22:37-40

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Old Testament Lesson: Jeremiah 31:31-34

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

New Testament Lesson: Mark 11:12-25

On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

15 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching. 19 And when evening came they went out of the city.

20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. 21 And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” 22 And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. 23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Sermon Title: “Cleansing the Temple” Part 3

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 106-B) “O Praise the Lord, for He Is Good” (Verses 8-14)

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 89-A) “I Will Forever Sing” (Verses 1-5)

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – #433) “Amazing Grace”

Afternoon Worship Bulletin 

*Call to Worship: Psalm 98:1      

*God’s Greeting: 1 Timothy 1:2

*Psalm #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 134) “Come, Bless the Lord with One Accord”

*Prayer for Illumination

*Old Testament Lesson: Psalm 49:1-20

*New Testament Lesson: Hebrews 9:11-28

Confessional Reading: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 16 

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 135) “O Praise the Lord! His Praise Proclaim!”

*Benediction