November 16, 2025

(Nicene Creed)

Preaching: Pastor Daniel Borvan

Call to Worship: Psalm 81:1

Invocation: Psalm 80:3

Restore us, O God;

Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

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: Isaiah 24:1-23

Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor. 3 The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the Lord has spoken this word.

4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish. 5 The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left. 7 The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled. 9 No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. 10 The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter. 11 There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished. 12 Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins. 13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth  among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

14 They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west. 15 Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.” 17 Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth! 18 He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken. 20 The earth staggers like a drunken man;
it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again. 21 On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth. 22 They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished. 23 Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.

New Testament Lesson: Mark 13:24-27

“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 27 And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

Sermon: “The King is Back”

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 19-A) “The Heavens Above Declare” Verses 1-5

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 19-A) “The Heavens Above Declare” Verses 6-9

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – #380) “Crown Him with Many Crowns”

Afternoon Worship Bulletin 

*Call to Worship: Psalm 103:1-5

*God’s Greeting: 1 Timothy 1:2

*Psalm #1 Psalm of the Month: (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 1-A) “That Man Is Blest”

*Prayer for Illumination

*Old Testament Lesson: Psalm 34:1-22

*New Testament Lesson: John 6:22-59

Confessional Reading: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 28

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 23-A) “The Lord’s My Shepherd”

*Benediction