November 23, 2025

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Welcome, we’re glad you’re here. Our vision echoes the Lord’s prayer: may it be “in the South Bay, as it is in heaven.” We yearn to see people flourishing in Jesus. Join us in the worship of our Lord.

PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP

PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING

[ALL ALOUD]

Almighty God, Father of all mercies,
   we your unworthy servants
   give you humble thanks
for all your goodness and loving-kindness
   to us and to all whom you have made.

We bless you for our creation, preservation,
   and all the blessings of this life;
but above all for your immeasurable love
   in the redemption of the world
   by our Lord Jesus Christ;
for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

And, we pray, give us such an awareness
   of your mercies,
that with truly thankful hearts
   we may show forth your praise,

not only with our lips, but in our lives,
   by giving up our selves to your service,
and by walking before you
   in holiness and righteousness all our days;

through Jesus Christ our Lord,
to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit,
be honor and glory throughout all ages.
Amen.

– Book of Common Prayer, “General Thanksgiving”

SONG

This is My Father’s World

[Verse 1]
This is my Father’s world
And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres

This is my Father’s world
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought

[Verse 2]
This is my Father’s world
The birds their carols raise
The morning light, the lily white
Declare their Maker’s praise

This is my Father’s world
He shines in all that’s fair;
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass
He speaks to me everywhere

[Verse 3]
This is my Father’s world:
O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the Ruler yet

This is my Father’s world
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King: let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let earth be glad!

[Coda]
This is my Father’s world
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King: let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let earth be glad!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ladies’ Holly Jolly Christmas Party Potluck (12/7) Sunday 5-8pm at the Shue residence. RSVP by 11/24.

URM Outreach (12/4) 5:30-7pm, A monthly service opportunity at the Thursday night chapel service.

KCC Basketball (12/12) Friday 8-9:30pm @ Jump Beyond Torrance.

[ Deacon Meeting: 11/23 ]

OFFERTORY

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GIVING & BUDGET
Total 2025 Annual Budget: $764,000
Giving as of 11/2/25: $611,169
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If you would like to give electronically, you can do so here or through the mobile app by selecting “Giving” at the bottom-right corner. For cash or check donations to King’s Cross Church, please use the offering box located at the back of our worship space.

SERMON
“What You Treasure”

¹³ Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher,
  tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
¹⁴ But he said to him, “Man,
   who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?”

¹⁵ And he said to them, “Take care,
   and be on your guard against all covetousness,
for one’s life does not consist
   in the abundance of his possessions.”

¹⁶ And he told them a parable, saying,
“The land of a rich man produced plentifully,
   ¹⁷ and he thought to himself,
‘What shall I do,
   for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

¹⁸ And he said, ‘I will do this:
   I will tear down my barns and build larger ones,
   and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
¹⁹ And I will say to my soul,
   “Soul, you have ample goods laid up
   for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’

²⁰ But God said to him, ‘Fool!
   This night your soul is required of you,
   and the things you have prepared,
whose will they be?’

²¹ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself
   and is not rich toward God.”

²² And he said to his disciples,
   “Therefore I tell you,
do not be anxious about your life,
   what you will eat, nor about your body,
   what you will put on.

²³ For life is more than food,
   and the body more than clothing.

²⁴ Consider the ravens:
   they neither sow nor reap,
   they have neither storehouse nor barn,
and yet God feeds them.
   Of how much more value are you than the birds!

²⁵ And which of you by being anxious
   can add a single hour to his span of life? 
²⁶ If then you are not able to do
   as small a thing as that,
   why are you anxious about the rest?

²⁷ Consider the lilies, how they grow:
   they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you,
even Solomon in all his glory
   was not arrayed like one of these.

²⁸ But if God so clothes the grass,
   which is alive in the field today,
   and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
how much more will he clothe you,
   O you of little faith!

²⁹ And do not seek what you are to eat
   and what you are to drink, nor be worried.
³⁰ For all the nations of the world
   seek after these things,
and your Father knows that you need them.

³¹ Instead, seek his kingdom,
   and these things will be added to you.
³² “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s
   good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

³³ Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.
   Provide yourselves with moneybags
   that do not grow old,
with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail,
   where no thief approaches
   and no moth destroys.

³⁴ For where your treasure is,
   there will your heart be also.
Luke 12:13-34 (ESV)

SONG

Another in the Fire

[Verse 1]
There’s a grace when the heart is under fire
Another way when the walls are closing in
And when I look at the space between
Where I used to be and this reckoning
I know I will never be alone

[Chorus 1]
There was another in the fire
Standing next to me
There was another in the waters
Holding back the seas
And should I ever need reminding
Of how I’ve been set free
There is a cross that bears the burden
Where another died for me

There is another in the fire

[Verse 2]
All my debt left for dead beneath the waters
I’m no longer a slave to my sin anymore
And should I fall in the space between
What remains of me and this reckoning
Either way I won’t bow to the things of this world
And I know I will never be alone

[Chorus 2]
There is another in the fire
Standing next to me
There is another in the waters
Holding back the seas
And should I ever need reminding
What power has set me free
There is a grave that holds no body
Now that power lives in me

[Bridge]
I can see the light in the darkness
As the darkness bows to Him
I can hear the roar in the heavens
As the space between wears thin
I can feel the ground shake beneath us
As the prison walls cave in
Nothing stands between us
Nothing stands between us

[Verse 3]
There is no other name
But the Name of Jesus
He who was and still is
And will be through it all
So come what may in the space between
All the things unseen and this reckoning
I know I will never be alone

[Chorus 3]
There’ll be another in the fire
Standing next to me
There’ll be another in the waters
Holding back the seas
And should I ever need reminding
How good You’ve been to me
I’ll count the joy come every battle
‘Cause I know that’s where You’ll be

BENEDICTION

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
   that though he was rich,
   yet for your sake he became poor,
so that you by his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:9