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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

If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
    so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
Psalm 130:3-4 

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
    his mercies never come to an end.
they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.
Micah 7:18

“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, 
   but he has not promised tomorrow to your delay.”
– Augustine, Sermon 83

“The forgiveness of enemies is the imitation of God.”
– Gregory of Nyssa

 

 

WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP

 

Praise the Lord, my soul;
    all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Praise the Lord, my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins
    and heals all your diseases…
Psalm 103:1-3

 

SONG

 

He Lives

[Verse 1]
See the tomb where He laid
See the stone rolled away
He is risen, He is risen
He’s alive

See His hands, see His feet
Touch His scars and believe
He is risen, He is risen
He’s alive

[Chorus]
He lives
All honor and power are His
All glory forever, amen
Jesus lives

[Verse 2]
Hear the shackles breaking free
Hear the song of the redeemed
He is moving, He is moving
He’s alive

So take this freedom, take this love
Can you feel it rising up
He is here, He is here
He’s alive

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
You took all our shame, left it in the grave
We’re forgiven, we’re forgiven
The work forever done, only by the blood
It is finished, it is finished

Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!

[Chorus]

 

 

 

 

SONG

 

Mighty to Save

[Verse 1]
Everyone needs compassion
Love that’s never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Savior
The hope of nations

[Chorus]
Savior
He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave

[Verse 2]
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Shine your light and let the whole world see
We’re singing
For the glory of the risen king

 

 

 

SCRIPTURE READING

 

One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him,
   and he went into the Pharisee’s house
   and reclined at the table.

And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner,
   when she learned that he was reclining
   at the table in the Pharisee’s house,
brought an alabaster flask of ointment,

and standing behind him at his feet, weeping,
   she began to wet his feet with her tears
   and wiped them with the hair of her head
   and kissed his feet
and anointed them with the ointment.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him
   saw this, he said to himself,
“If this man were a prophet,
   he would have known who and what sort of woman
   this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”

And Jesus answering said to him,
   “Simon, I have something to say to you.”
And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.”

“A certain moneylender had two debtors.
   One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
When they could not pay,
   he cancelled the debt of both.

Now which of them will love him more?”
Simon answered, “The one, I suppose,
   for whom he cancelled the larger debt.”
And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon,
   “Do you see this woman?

I entered your house;
   you gave me no water for my feet,
but she has wet my feet with her tears
   and wiped them with her hair.

You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in
   she has not ceased to kiss my feet.
You did not anoint my head with oil,
   but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

Therefore I tell you,
   her sins, which are many, are forgiven —
   for she loved much.
But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
Then those who were at table with him
   began to say among themselves,
“Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
Luke 7:36-49

 

SONG

 

Our Great Savior (Jesus What a Friend for Sinners)

[Verse 1]
Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!

Jesus! Lover of my soul;
Friends may fail me, foes assail me,
He, my Savior, makes me whole.
[Chorus]
Hallelujah! what a Savior!
Hallelujah! what a Friend!
Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me to the end.

[Verse 2]
Jesus! what a Strength in weakness!

Let me hide myself in him;
Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing,
He, my strength, my victory wins. [Refrain]

[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Jesus! what a Help in sorrow!
While the billows o’er me roll,
Even when my heart is breaking,
He, my Comfort, helps my soul. [Refrain]

[Chorus]

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Women’s Bible Study (sign up by 2/1) opportunities for 3 different meeting times

The Four Loves (begins 2/1) Sunday morning before worship service. Childcare is available

KCC Basketball (2/6) Friday 8-10pm

Common Life: Practicing the Way of Jesus Together (begins 2/13) Friday nights, 7:30-9:30pm

Men’s Study “The Beatitudes” (begins 2/19) The 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 7:30-9pm

 

OFFERTORY

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2026 Budget: $850,000
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SERMON
“Have Patience with Me”

21 Then Peter came up and said to him,
   “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me,
   and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times,
   but seventy-seven times.

23 “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared
   to a king who wished to settle accounts
   with his servants. 
24 When he began to settle, one was brought to him
   who owed him ten thousand talents.

25 And since he could not pay,
   his master ordered him to be sold,
   with his wife and children and all that he had,
   and payment to be made.

26 So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him,
   ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’
27 And out of pity for him,
   the master of that servant released him
   and forgave him the debt.

28 But when that same servant went out,
   he found one of his fellow servants
   who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him,
he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’

29 So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him,
   ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’
30 He refused and went and put him in prison
   until he should pay the debt.

31 When his fellow servants saw what had taken place,
   they were greatly distressed,
and they went and reported to their master
   all that had taken place.

32 Then his master summoned him and said to him,
   ‘You wicked servant!
I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.
   33 And should not you have had mercy
   on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’

34 And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,
   until he should pay all his debt.
35 So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you,
   if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Matthew 18:21-35 (ESV)

 

SONG

 

Jesus Paid it All

[Verse 1]
I hear the Savior say
Thy strength indeed is small
Child of weakness, watch and pray
Find in Me thine all in all

[Chorus]
Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

[Verse 2]
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone
Can change the leper’s spots
and melt the heart of stone

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete
“Jesus died my soul to save”
My lips shall still repeat

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Oh, praise the One who paid my debt

and raised this life up from the dead

 

BENEDICTION

The Lord is merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide,
    nor will he keep his anger forever.
He does not deal with us according to our sins,
    nor repay us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his steadfast love
    toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
    so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:8-12

 

OFFICERS

Elders
Active: Chris Lau, Andrew McGregor, Jeremy Williamson
Inactive: Phil Kenney

Deacons
Active: Sam Ahn, Meg Gregor, Bryant Kim, Jeff Kyle, Katie Price, Ruth-Anne Shue, Helen Sok, Tina Suenaga, Bethany Williamson
Inactive: Travis Chiang, Beka Hilton

 

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