["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Thank you, God. Thank you so much for this church, Lord.
Thank you for these people coming out here on a Wednesday evening.
I pray that you bless the music.
I pray that you bless the sermon and the preaching to come.
In your holy and precious name, I pray. Amen.
Please turn in your songbooks to page number 321.
Page number 321.
We're going to be singing
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
["Where He Leads I'll Follow"]
Page 321.
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
Dear, far than any message man ever heard.
Pure was the mind of Christ, sinless I see.
He, the great example, isn't better for me.
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
Follow the way.
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
Follow Jesus every day.
321 on the second.
Sweet is the tender love Jesus has shown.
Sweeter far than any love that mortals have known.
Guide to the erring one, faithful is He.
He, the great example, isn't better for me.
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
Follow the way.
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
Follow Jesus every day.
On the last, miss to His loving words,
Come unto me.
Weary have ye laid, and there is sweet rest for thee.
Trust in His promises, faithful and sure.
Clean up on this Savior, and thy soul is secure.
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
Follow the way.
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
Follow Jesus every day.
Great singing.
Amen. Alright, well let's take our bulletins tonight.
We'll look at some announcements. If you do not have a bulletin, raise your hand
and one of our ushers can get one for you. If you need a bulletin tonight, just put your hand up
and we will get one for you. The verse this week, Ephesians 3.20,
Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think
according to the power that worketh in us. And that's a good
verse there. We like that. If you open up your bulletin, you'll see our service time Sunday morning service
10.30 a.m. And we do invite you to be with us, of course, on Sunday morning
of the Lord's Day for church. Sunday evening service at 6 p.m. And we're glad you made it out
to the midweek Bible study, the Wednesday evening Bible study. And I like to call the
Wednesday night service the most encouraging service of the week. And it's nice to just
get away from the world and get back with God's people in the middle of the week.
And we're glad you're here. If you look at our soul-winning times, our main soul-winning times are on Saturday
morning at 10 a.m. Then we have additional soul-winning times on Thursdays and Fridays and Sundays
at 2 p.m. And we'd love for you to join us for any of those soul-winning times.
If you are a first-time guest, if it's your first time here at Verity Baptist Church,
we're glad you're with us. We have a gift we'd like to give you. As you walk out of the church building
tonight, as you go through the foyer, you'll see these
tables that we've got set up in the different foyers. And you'll see these little
gift bags. Please grab one on your way out as a gift from us to you for being our
guest this evening. There are several resources in this bag that we'd like you to have.
The one I like to highlight is this documentary that our church made. It's called Being Baptist. Very well made,
very interesting. We think you'll like it and want to give this to you as a gift. So please make sure that
you don't leave here tonight without grabbing one of these
gift bags on your way out. And of course, if you are
a guest, we'd ask that you please take a moment and fill out the communication card, which is
inserted in your bulletin. If you need a pen, just raise your hand and one of our ushers can bring you by
a Verity Baptist Church pen. You're welcome to keep the pen as a gift from us
as well. We're not going to do anything odd with your info. We just want to record your attendance. We actually want
to send you a little gift, but we need your info to do that. So please take a moment to fill the card out.
When we're done with the announcements, we're going to sing a song. When we're done singing, we're going to receive the offering. And as the offering
plate goes by, you can drop this card in the offering plate. Or you can hand it to me after the service.
I'll be standing at the back door greeting people on the way out. If you look at our announcements, we
of course, if you need to be baptized, please let us know. We'd love to baptize you. The baptistry is filled,
excuse me, the baptistry is not filled, but you let us know if you want to be baptized and we'll
get that situated. You can let us know on your communication card.
And then of course, if you look at the announcements, we are in a series called Journey
with Jesus, a verse by verse study through the Gospel of Luke. And we're continuing that tonight.
Men's preaching night is this Friday, August 5th at 7pm.
And all the men are invited to an evening of preaching pizza and fellowship. If you'd like to
preach, well you need to have signed up already, so that's done. But don't forget
that it's Friday at 7pm and you don't have to preach
to come to the men's preaching night. You can just come and enjoy the fellowship, listen to the guys who preach
and then we have pizza afterwards, so make sure you're a part of that. And then choir
and orchestra, they've got practice at 5pm, the orchestra
does. And then the choir begins on Sunday, August 14th, practicing for
family and friend days. So don't forget about that if you'd like to join the choir for that. Upcoming
cleaning crew, you can check for your name there. We appreciate your faithfulness. There's other things there for you to look at.
Please don't forget to turn your cell phones off or place them on silent during the service so that
they're not a distraction to anybody. If you look at the back of the bulletin, birthdays and anniversaries
for the month of July, those are all past. Praise report, money
matters, all those things are there for you to look at. I think that's it
for all of the announcements. So we're going to go ahead
and take our song books and go to page number 110
as we prepare to receive the offering tonight. We're going to sing 1-1-0
All the way, my Savior leads me
110. Sing it out on the first
All the way, my Savior leads me
What have I to ask beside
Can I doubt His tender mercy
Who through life has been my guide
Heavenly peace, divine is comfort
Here by faith in Him to dwell
For I know whatever befall me
Whatever befall me
Jesus, through with all things well
110. Sing it out on the second
All the way, my Savior leads me
Cheers each winding path I tread
Gives me grace for every trial
Feeds me with the living bread
That my soul at first may be
Gushing from the rock before me
Oh, a string of joy I see
Gushing from the rock before me
Oh, a string of joy I see
All the way, my Savior leads me
Oh, the fullness of His love
All the way, my Savior leads me
All the way
Let's help the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time and let's go ahead
and bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, we do thank you for allowing us to gather
together tonight. Lord, we pray that you bless the offering, we pray that you bless the
gift from the giver and that you would bless the time that we have set aside for prayer
and then of course for the preaching of your word. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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