August 30, 2026

(Apostles’ Creed)

Preaching: Pastor Dan Borvan

Call to Worship: Psalm 135:3

Invocation: Psalm 135:13

Your name, O LORD, endures forever,

your renown, O LORD, throughout all ages.

Reading of the Law: Micah 6:6-8

“With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” 8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 53:1-12

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he
had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the  transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.

New Testament Lesson: Mark 15:40-47

There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. 41 When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

42 And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. 45 And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. 46 And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

Sermon: “The Burial of the King”

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 135) “O Praise the LORD! His Praise Proclaim!”

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 149-A) “Give Praise to the LORD”

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – #431) “And Can It Be”

Afternoon Worship Bulletin 

*Call to Worship: Psalm 81.1

*God’s Greeting: Revelation 1:4-5

*Psalm #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 34-A) “I Will at All Times Bless the LORD” (Vs. 4-7) Psalm of the month

*Prayer for Illumination

*Old Testament Lesson: Psalm 98:1-9

*New Testament Lesson: 1 John 4:7–12

Confessional Reading: Canons of Dort, 1.2

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 60) “You, O God, Reject and Spurn Us” (Verses 1-5)

*Benediction