Jon Pennington- Tracing God’s Plans

Announcements

Good morning. Welcome to Southern Hills Baptist Church. Thank you for joining us today.

If you are a first-time guest with us, you will find a Connection Card in the pew rack in front of you. We would appreciate it if you would fill that out and place it in the offering plate. That gives us a record of your visit and allows us the opportunity of reaching out to you this week to answer any questions that you might have.

Online giving is available at our website, southernhillsbc.com. By clicking on GIVE, it will take you to our giving page where you can easily give by electronic check or credit card. You can also give during our offertory time or in the box at the info table. If you are a guest, please know that we do not expect you to give. Our members and regular attenders provide for the ministry of the church

As a reminder, the mission of SHBC “is to seek holiness as we covenant together as a faithful local body of Christ and to engage in the Great Commission by making disciples in our homes, our communities, and around the world.”

ANNIE ARMSTRONG UPDATE: We are now halfway through our Annie Armstrong Easter Offering campaign. Again, Annie Armstrong is how Southern Baptists raise money for church planting in North America. Every dollar that our 48,000 churches raise will go toward that goal.

And I want us—as a church—to change the way that we see church planting in the U.S. and Canada (and Puerto Rico, as you saw in the video). As North America moves progressively more post-Christian, we must see that we are not just planting another church in an already church-saturated country. Instead, we are sending missionaries to a community where very few—if any—faithful churches exist.

America is now in such decline in her fidelity to the Word that third world nations are sending their missionaries here! And for those reasons, we must engage in church planting and financially support church plants here at home. Our Annie Armstrong offering is just as important, if not more important than the support we give to the International Mission Board.

For, if we cannot reach the people in our own communities, how will we ever reach the nations?

Our goal as a church for Annie Armstrong is $10,000 this year. So far, we are 15% of the way there.

There are giving envelopes and prayer guides on the info table. Please be praying as to how God would have you give this Easter season.

See bulletin for Calendar Updates

If you are a guest with us, know that this is our weekly Family Worship service. Our children will remain with us for the entire service. We do have a nursery available for children under 4 just down the hall if you would like to use it.

Please stand as I read our Call to Worship.

Call To Worship

2 Corinthians 1:3–5 ESV

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

Opening Hymn

Scripture & Prayer: Pastor Atreju

Song #1

Missions Minute: C3 & the Pennington Family

Jon & Alana Pennington

Offering & Prayer

Song #2 (Revelation Song)

Lord’s Supper

Please be seated.

(beat)

Jesus is worthy of our praise. He is the Almighty Creator God who came in flesh to break the grip of sin. John chapter 1 says that He has always been and Jesus Himself declares in Revelation that He is the beginning and the end of all things. It was His hands that shaped creation as God spoke. And yet, He loved us so much that He became incarnate and went to the cross and died as our sacrifice. But Jesus didn’t stay in the grave. He was raised to new life—glorified and imperishable.

As He walked with the disciples, He showed them what it was to be truly human—to image God in the way that God designed them to. And part of that was fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 61: proclaiming good news to the poor, liberty to the captives, and restoring the blind.

Jesus healed in all of these arenas to bring God’s justice to earth, but also to prove His power over the consequences of sin and death. In this healing, Jesus calls God’s human image-bearers to come and be restored—to sit at His table as His adopted son or daughter—to be a part of His family.

We’re going to continue our reading about Jesus from the book of John. Today we will finish chapter 4:

John 4:46–54 ESV

So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

At this time, I am going to have our ushers come forward. If you are a follower of Jesus, in that you have accepted Him as Savior, bowed to Him as King, and been baptized in obedience to His commandment, we invite you to participate with us. In just a moment, we will pass the plates. Please take a piece of bread and a cup and hold it until we take together.

Pass

Instruction from Jesus: Read 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

1 Corinthians 11:23–26 ESV

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Prayer of Blessing on bread and cup

SERMON- Jon Pennington

CLOSING HYMN

CONGREGATIONAL BLESSING