Our primary worship service is offered every Sunday morning at 10am in the Sanctuary and in English. Our worship service is based on a reformed liturgy (arrangement of worship). We offer both traditional music (hymns) and contemporary music, combined into a blended worship. Participating in worship every Sunday is our pastor/preacher, a lay leader, our chancel choir, our praise team, and all those in attendance.

Seating is available throughout the Sanctuary and is accessible for those with mobility issues. We provide hearing devices for those in need of them. Our greeters will offer you a nametag and help you feel comfortable. Our ushers can direct you to an open seat if you wish. Each pew contains Bibles (we usually use the NRSV, New Revised Standard Version, or the CEB, Common English Bible) and hymnals however,
​ all lyrics and spoken responses are projected up front for all to see.

We endeavor to create an environment where all people, including children, can worship God together. For those who desire it, there is a room towards the rear of the sanctuary that is set aside for parents. Childcare is available for those children not yet in preschool. Children are welcome to attend Sunday School. We offer two classes: 1) PreK-Kindergarten (meets in CE Room) and 2) 1st-5th grade (meets in CE Room). Trained instructors lead your children through the bible text used in worship in a multi-sensory way.

Sunday Mornings at 10:00am

Outline for Sunday Morning Worship, March 22

Northminster Presbyterian Church
Worshipping Together (while we are apart)
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Preliminary Notes: 
  • The order of worship offered below is for you to use however you wish.
    • While there is much to be gained from moving through the service as we might on a typical Sunday morning, please feel free to read/pray through it slowly or quickly, to read parts of it multiple times, to start where you like and to finish where you like.  
  • As you begin, as the Spirit to help you notice aspects of the service that particularly resonate with you, and ask for insight about why certain things stand out to you today.
  • Beneath the hymn titles are links to online renditions. Again, feel free to avail yourself of them, to find other versions, to look up the words and skip the music (or vice versa), or to just move on to the next part of the service.
  • God bless you as you give yourself and this time as an offering to Christ.

 
Call to worship    (based on 1 Chronicles 16)
 
Leader:  Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.
 
All:  Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Remember the wonders he has done.
 
Leader:  Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise.
 
All: Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his dwelling place. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
 
Hymn of praise                         Let the Nations Be Glad 
Call to confession               Psalm 32:1-6a
 
Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven,
   whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord does not count against him
   and in whose spirit is no deceit.
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
   my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
 
Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”--
   and you forgave the guilt of my sin.
Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found
 
Silent prayers of confession  
 
Assurance of God’s pardoning grace    (from 1 John 4 and 1 Peter 2)
 
Leader:  This is how God showed his love among us:
He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
 
All:  We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, 
a holy nation, a people belonging to God, 
that we may declare the praises of him 
who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light.
 
Hymn of assurance                          Here Is Love                                           
Prayer of intercession for the global mission of the church
 
Leader:  King of all creation, you are gathering your church in all its breadth and variety, out of every nation, family, people, and tongue, to be a kingdom of priests to serve you. This morning we pray for our brothers and sisters around the world, that you would equip them to love and serve their communities in your name.
 
All:  Through your church, heal and comfort all who suffer and mourn. Guide and sustain churches young and old, small and large, that your glorious name would be known and proclaimed throughout the world.
 
Leader:  God of our salvation, through your Holy Spirit, grant the church humility where there is pride, unity where there is division, truth where there is falsehood, and wisdom where there is foolishness, that you might use her to fulfill your purposes.  
 
All: We join with the apostle Paul in saying, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
adapted from The Worship Sourcebook (reprinted with permission, Second Edition, © 2013,  and Ephesians 3:20-21  
 
Hymn                                     May the Mind of Christ My Savior 
Scripture reading                                   Psalm 46
 
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear,
   though the earth give way
   and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
   and the mountains quake with their surging.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
   the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall;
   God will help her at break of day.
 
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
   he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
 
Come and see the works of the Lord,
   the desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
   he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
   he burns the shields with fire.
 
“Be still, and know that I am God;
   I will be exalted among the nations,
   I will be exalted in the earth.”
The Lord Almighty is with us;
   the God of Jacob is our fortress. 
 
Prayers of the People
  • pray for your loved ones, for our church, for our community, our country, our world.
  • pray especially for those who are suffering because of the Coronavirus:
    • pray for the sick and their families; for medical personnel; for researchers; for administrators and leaders; 
    • pray for healing; for justice; for wisdom about how to respond personally and locally
 
Closing Hymn                          The Church’s One Foundation 
The Peace of Christ
 
          May the peace of Christ be with you.
 
          And also with you.
 
(Make a phone call or two and share the peace of Christ)

Northminster Presbyterian Church
400 Rancheria Road | Diamond Bar, CA 91765 | PH: (909)861-4715