Sermon Tone Analysis

The Lord, My God, My Salvation

Scriptural Call to Worship (Psalm 27:1-4)

Welcome & Announcements (Sterling Tollison)

Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:27-30)

Prayer of Praise, God is Creator (Kelly Watkins)

Blessed Be Your Name

The Lord Is My Salvation

Prayer of Confession , sins of the tongue (Jake Rogier)

What A Friend We Have in Jesus

PBC CATECHISM #5

No creed or catechism is exhaustive.

Same is true of PBC catechism.

Adopted from our statement of faith and our covenant, this is what we believe as a church and how we promise to commit to one another

Where do we learn about God?

We believe God reveals Himself to His creation through His Word.

PASTORAL PRAYER

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

When [we] look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8)

Thank you for creating us in your image.

Thank you for caring for us.

Thank you for crowning us with glory and honor.

Thank you for calling us to exercise dominion over the work of Your hands.

Prayer for PBC: Pure eyes

Ever since the serpent hissed his lies to our first parents in the garden, we have been tempted to trust what we see more than what God says

Your Word tells us “… not [to] love the world or the things in the world [because] If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.”

(1 John 2:15-16)

Help the members of this church to resist the temptations of this world...

Not to look at what we should not see

Not to look in ways we should not look

Not to look with longing at what does not satisfy

We must fight desire with desire, we must fight the lust of the eyes with the eyes of faith

Help us to want to see God!!!

If any members here are struggling with their eyes, help them to not leave here today until they’re open with someone

Your Word tells us to “… confess [our] sins to one another and pray for one another, that [we] may be healed.

” (James 5:16)

May PBC be a place of healing today

Prayer for sister church: By Grace Community Church

Learn God’s Word, live God’s way, and love God’s people

Lead Pastor Kevin Hass, elders Dale Emerson, Matt Houseman, Brent Vallee, and Greg Wolff

Faithfulness, holiness, love

Prayer for US: Against Secularism

We see the rise of secularism in. . .

Perceived contradiction between God and science

Unchallenged acceptance of Darwinian evolution

General disbelief in the historicity of Jesus

Attempts to redefine sin with a psychological diagnosis

Growing disregard for religious freedom

Unhitching of morality from absolute truth

We pray for awakening. . .

Not merely so secularism can retreat, but so the Gospel will advance

Prayer for world: Cote d’Lvoire (kowt-duh-vwaar)

President Alassane Ouattara (all-ah-SAHN wat-ar-AH) — protection for the unborn, justice for the vulnerable, flourishing for all

The “jewel of West Africa” where 27 million souls live

Pray against the political unrest, and civil wars that have ravaged the nation in the past twenty years

Pray against the spread of HIV/AIDS which claims around 40,000 lives a year and inflicts nearly half a million people

The Gospel to penetrate the un-evangelized sectors of the predominantly Muslim north

Rich, biblical teaching to spread throughout the churches

Pray for the sermon

Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable

SERMON

Toad baked some cookies.

“These cookies smell very good,” said Toad.

He ate one.

“And they taste even better,” he said.

Toad ran to Frog’s house.

“Frog, Frog,” cried Toad, “taste these cookies that I have made.”

Frog ate one of the cookies, “These are the best cookies I have ever eaten!” said Frog.

SHOW FROG & TOAD PICTURE

Frog and Toad ate many cookies, one after another.

“You know, Toad,” said Frog, with his mouth full, “I think we should stop eating.

We will soon be sick.”

“You are right,” said Toad. “Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

Frog and Toad ate one last cookie.

There were many cookies left in the bowl.

Frog,” said Toad, “let us eat one very last cookie, and then we will stop.”

Frog and Toad ate one very last cookie.

“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.

“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need will power.”

“What is will power?”

asked Toad.

“Willpower is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.

“You mean like trying hard not to eat all these cookies?” asked Toad.

“Right,” said Frog.

Frog put the cookies in a box.

“There,” he said.

“Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Frog tied some string around the box.

“There,” he said.

“Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can cut the string and open the box.” said Toad.

That is true,” said Frog.

Frog got a ladder.