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PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP
“Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree…”
– Abraham to angelic visitors (Genesis 18:4)
“Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
– Abigail to David’s messengers (1 Samuel 25:41)
“He who fights with monsters should be careful
lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze long into an abyss,
the abyss also gazes into you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.”
– NT Wright
“[Footwashing] was intended to be an example:
not of the act, but of the spirit;
not in the deed done, but in the principle.”
– Matthew Henry
“[My mother] poured out more tears for my spiritual death than other mothers shed for the bodily death of a son… I thank you, Lord, for my mother.”
– Augustine
“The mother is, after God, the greatest gift to mankind.”
– John Chrysostom
“I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.”
– John Wesley
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
When I 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? …
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 8:3-4,9
Good God
[Verse 1]
Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Be still and know my God is here
Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Be still and know my God is here
[Chorus]
All that I need to know is this
You are a good God
The Maker of Heaven calls me His
You are a good God
And Your heart beats in my chest
You are a good God
All that I have to do is rest
You are a good God
[Verse 2]
I won’t be afraid
I won’t be afraid
I won’t be afraid, my God is here
He will make a way
He will make a way
He will make a way, my God is here
[Chorus]
[Bridge 1]
You gave me Your eyes
You gave me Your heart
Your Spirit flows through my veins
[Bridge 2]
You gave me Your eyes
You gave me Your heart
You had a plan right from the start
I know who I am cause I know who You are
You are a good God
[Chorus]
SONG
The Lost are Found
[Verse 1]
Everlasting, while earthly ages fade
In mercy, Our God, Your kingdom reigns
Lord over everything, You are near
All of the universe at your feet
In the Savior, injustice brought to right
For Your glory, that your name be lifted high
Lord over everything, You are near
All of the universe at Your feet
Lord over everything, You are near
All of the universe at Your feet
[Chorus]
The lost are found, the blind will see
The lame will walk, the dead will live
And You, our God, forever You will reign
Lord over everything, You are near
All of the universe at Your feet
Lord over everything, You are near
All of the universe at Your feet
[Chorus]
RESPONSIVE READING
Leader (L):
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit,
but in humility
count others more significant than yourselves.
Congregation (C):
Let each of you look not only to his own interests,
but also to the interests of others.
L:
Have this mind among yourselves,
which is yours in Christ Jesus,
C:
who, though he was in the form of God,
did not count equality with God
a thing to be grasped,
L:
but emptied himself,
by taking the form of a servant,
being born in the likeness of men.
C:
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death, even death on a cross.
L:
Therefore God has highly exalted him
and bestowed on him
the name that is above every name,
C:
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
ALL:
and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:3-11
SONG
How Deep the Father’s Love For Us
[Verse 1]
How deep the Father’s love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He would give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure
How great the pain of searing loss
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory
[Verse 2]
Behold the man upon a cross
My sin upon His shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished
[Verse 3]
I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Women’s Happy Hour (5/30): Ladies, you’re invited to a relaxing evening of conversation, cider, and community on Friday, May 30th at Honest Abe Cider House in Gardena. Meet us between 6-8pm. Details here. Contact Toddy Eames with questions.
Ladies Afternoon Tea (6/28): Ladies, join us Saturday, June 28th at 2pm at the Haggerty home for a delightful afternoon featuring homemade scones with jam, tea sandwiches, sweet treats and warm fellowship. Register here by June 18th.
OFFERTORY
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MONTHLY FINANCIAL UPDATE
After April 2025
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SERMON
“Getting the Royal Treatment”
Now before the Feast of the Passover,
when Jesus knew that his hour had come
to depart out of this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world,
he loved them to the end.
2 During supper, when the devil had already put it
into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son,
to betray him,
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things into his hands,
and that he had come from God
and was going back to God,
4 rose from supper.
He laid aside his outer garments,
and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.
5 Then he poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples’ feet
and to wipe them with the towel
that was wrapped around him.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him,
“Lord, do you wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered him,
“What I am doing you do not understand now,
but afterward you will understand.”
8 Peter said to him,
“You shall never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered him,
“If I do not wash you,
you have no share with me.”
9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only
but also my hands and my head!”
10 Jesus said to him,
“The one who has bathed does not need to wash,
except for his feet, but is completely clean.
And you are clean, but not every one of you.”
11 For he knew who was to betray him;
that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
12 When he had washed their feet and put on
his outer garments and resumed his place,
he said to them,
“Do you understand what I have done to you?
13 You call me Teacher and Lord,
and you are right, for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 For I have given you an example,
that you also should do
just as I have done to you.
16 Truly, truly, I say to you,
a servant is not greater than his master,
nor is a messenger greater
than the one who sent him.
17 If you know these things,
blessed are you if you do them…
34 A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another:
just as I have loved you,
you also are to love one another.
35 By this all people will know
that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.”
John 13:1-17, 34-35 (ESV)
SONG
All the Poor and Powerless
[Verse 1]
All the poor and powerless
And all the lost and lonely
And all the thieves will come confess
And know that You are holy
And know that You are holy
[Chorus]
And all will sing out, Hallelujah
And we will cry out Hallelujah
[Verse 2]
All the hearts who are content
And all who feel unworthy
And all who hurt with nothing left
Will know that You are holy
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Shout it
Go on and scream it from the mountains
Go on and tell it to the masses
That He is God
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
BENEDICTION
A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another:
just as I have loved you,
you also are to love one another.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.
John 13:34-35
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