WT O R E F O R M A T I O N C O V E N A N T C H U R C Hroom located adjacent to our Nursery, if you feel you need quiet or privacy. A video feed of the service can be viewed here, as well as in the Fellowship Hall below the sanctuary.Restrooms. Restrooms are located down the stairs from the Foyer and in the educational wing.Weekly Meal. Every week RCC hosts a weekly Agape meal after the service (served as a pot-luck). We always have plenty of food, and would love for you to join us for fellowship after worship!Contact. If you would like us to contact you this week, please leave your name, phone number, and/or email below, and give this page to one of our Greeters, Deacons, or Elders.

WE ARE GLAD YOU ARE JOINING US TODAY as we worship our great and gracious God, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If this is your first time with us, allow us to introduce ourselves.Worship Service. Our weekly service follows a responsive pattern of worship found in Scrip-ture, as a dialogue or conversation between the Lord and His people. Here God meets with us, speaks to us, and blesses us; we speak and respond back to Him in praise, thanksgiving, and renewed commitment.Communion. Each week at RCC we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, receiving bread and wine as covenantal tokens of Jesus’ body and blood. Christians – young or old – who are baptized, and are in good standing in Christ, are invited to partake.

To facilitate Communion distribution, we encourage a representative of each household or group to come forward using the outer aisles to receive the Communion elements. Glu-ten-free bread is available on the pulpit side.Nursery. We love having children involved in the whole service. Please don’t worry if someone with you is wiggly – we are glad to have you all worshipping with us! During the sermon, nursery care is available for children two and under. There is a Nursing Mother’s

Soli Deo Gloria ~ T O G O D A L O N E B E T H E G L O R Y !

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R E F O R M AT I O N C O V E N A N T C H U R C H • www.ReformationCovenantChurch.orgELDERS: Gary Barnard, Bo Cogbill, Matt Dau, Michael Lortz, Roger Payne, George Shubin

DEACONS: Jeff Cone, Tom Dahlin, Daniel Forster, Bryan Hangartner, Dave Tooze

elcome

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p ur i f ica t ion of fer ing, g i f t of g lor y

Pastor: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit!y Congregation: Amen! Matthew 28:19

The LORD be with you! Ruth 2:4y And also with you!

God has gone up with a shout, Psalm 47:5y The Lord with the sound of a trumpet!

The Lord has ascended on high, Psalm 68:18 y Leading a host of captives in his train!

“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.” Psalm 51:5–5

y O Almighty God, heavenly Father, I have sinned against you and against my neighbor, in thought word and deed, in the evil I have done and in the good I have not done, through ignorance, through weakness, and through my own deliberate fault. I am truly sorry and repent of all my sins. For the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, who died for me, forgive me all that is past; and grant that I may serve you in newness of life to the glory of your Name. Amen.

“Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.” Psalm 51:14–15Almighty God in His mercy has given His Son to die for your sins and to be raised for your justification; and for His sake forgives you all your sins. This I declare in the name and authority of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. y Amen

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Lift up your hearts!

S U R S U M C O R D A — l i f t u p y o u r h e a r t

Let us give thanks to the LORD, our God!

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P A S T O R S P E A K SIt is truly proper, right, wholesome, and beneficial that we should at all times, and in all places, give praise unto Thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God. Therefore, with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name; evermore worshipping Thee!

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Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, yy For the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

Why should the nations say, yy “Where is their God?”

Our God is in the heavens; yy He does all that he pleases.

Their idols are silver and gold, yy The work of human hands.

They have mouths, but do not speak; yy Eyes, but do not see.

They have ears, but do not hear; yy Noses, but do not smell.

They have hands, but do not feel; yy Feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.

Those who make them become like them; yy So do all who trust in them.

You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! yy He is their help and their shield. The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us;

He will bless those who fear the LORD, yy Both the small and the great.

May the LORD give you increase, You and your children! May you be blessed by the LORD,

yy Who made heaven and earth!

The heavens are the LORD’s heavens, yy But the earth he has given to the children of man.

The dead do not praise the LORD, yy Nor do any who go down into silence.

But we will bless the LORD yy From this time forth and forevermore.

yy All: Praise the LORD!

P A S T O R S T A R T S

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SRESURRECTION AS THE UNIVERSAL ANTIDOTE FOR RELIGIOUS AND

PHILOSOPHICAL CONFUSION

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English Standard Version (ESV)

16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit

was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full

of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews

and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day

with those who happened to be there. 18 Some of the Epicu-

rean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And

some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said,

“He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because

he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they

took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May

we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish

to know therefore what these things mean.” 21 Now all the

Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend

their time in nothing except telling or hearing something

new. 22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said:

“Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very

religious. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects

of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscrip-

tion: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship

as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made

the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and

earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he

served by human hands, as though he needed anything,

since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and

everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of

mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having deter-

mined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling

place, 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their

way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from

each one of us, 28 for “‘In him we live and move and have

our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For

we are indeed his offspring.’ 29 Being then God’s offspring,

we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or

silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination

of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now

he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because

he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righ-

teousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he

has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” 32

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some

mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.” 33 So Paul went out from their midst. 34 But some men joined

him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the

Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with

them.

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“Give to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come into His courts. O, worship the

LORD in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.” Psalm 96:8–9

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If you have a prayer request for the public prayer, please fill out a prayer card and pass it to the center aisle at this time. Someone will collect the cards during this song.

F I L L O U T & S U B M I T P R A Y E R C A R D S

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y Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. Matthew 6:9–13

C O N G R E G A T I O N P R A Y S A L O N G W I T H P A S T O R

P R E P A R A T I O N F O R C O M M U N I O N

Congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord has prepared His table for all who love and trust in Him for their salvation. All those who have repented of their sins, have been baptized and are in good standing in the Church of Jesus Christ are welcome at this table. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

Leader: Christian, in Whom do you believe? L E A D E R B E G I N S

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B E N E D I C T I O N

“Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, blessed them, and came down from offering the purification offering, the

ascension offering, and peace offerings.” Leviticus 9:22

P R AY E R

WorshipPrayer for wisdom and guidance for our Elders and Deacons.

MissionPrayers for the emerging development of a Provisional

Presbytery in Europe and Asia, made up of Anselm Presbytery churches. Prayer that this development will promote maturity

and unity among the churches in those regions.

Prayers for Love INC, that they will be able to find more volunteers.

DiscipleshipPrayers for all of the Sunday School teachers, for wisdom

as they go through the Sunday School year.

CommunityPlease pray for Jesse and Leah Nieman, that they would be

a blessing to everyone that they interact with in Mexico, and that God would keep them and their team safe and be

willing to serve in whatever way God calls them to.

Prayers for strength, communication, and courage for Lauren as she serves Nazareth House in Ukraine.

D O C T R I N E

Sermon: “Resurrection as the Universal Antidote for Religious and Philosophical Chaos and Confusion“ Gene Helsel

Next Week: “A Good Story“ Bo Cogbill

Nursery: Katelyn Forster & Angela HangartnerNext Week: Geneva Smith & Joanna Shaw

Greeters: Diana & TommieNext Week: Tanya & Sandy

F E L L O W S H I P

Sunday, June 23: No Sunday SchoolTuesday, June 25: Young Men’s Book Study 7 PM

Wednesday, June 26: Elder Meeting 7 PMFriday, June 28: Ruth out of office

Thursday, July 4: Church Office closed for Independence Day

B R E A K I N G O F B R E A D

Agape Cleanup: Rhodes, A&R Hayes, Tooze, Young, P&S Mahar, Dahlin, P. Forster, Jackson

Next Week: J&A Cone, Poindexter, Fukuda, T. Cone, Smith, D&S Dau

Dishwasher Today: Team 1: Paul, Simon, Peter, AidenNext Week: Team 2: John, Jonathan A., Justus, Owen

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Acts 2:42

B I R T H D A Y S A N N I V E R S A R I E S&T H I S W E E K

June 24: Sydney Cogbill