Service Guide

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Welcome & Call to Worship

 Psalm 36:5-10 (NIV)

Leader: Welcome to Evanston Bible Fellowship! Please stand and join us in this call to worship from Psalm 36:5-10, reading the words in bold.

Leader: 5 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, 
your faithfulness to the skies. 
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, 
your justice like the great deep. 
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. 
All: 7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! 
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. 
Leader: 8 They feast on the abundance of your house; 
you give them drink from your river of delights. 
9 For with you is the fountain of life; 
in your light we see light. 
All: 10 Continue your love to those who know you, 
your righteousness to the upright in heart.  

"House Of The Lord"

Verse 1
We worship the God who was
We worship the God who is
We worship the God who evermore will be
He opened the prison doors
He parted the raging sea
My God He holds the victory yeah

Chorus
There’s joy in the house of the Lord
There’s joy in the house of the Lord today
And we won’t be quiet
We shout out Your praise
There’s joy in the house of the Lord
Our God is surely in this place
And we won’t be quiet
We shout out Your praise

Interlude 1
Oh oh oh
We shout out Your praise

Verse 2
We sing to the God who heals
We sing to the God who saves
We sing to the God who always makes a way
'Cause He hung up on that cross
Then He rose up from that grave
My God’s still rolling stones away

Bridge
('Cause) We were the beggars
Now we’re royalty
We were the prisoners
Now we’re running free
We are forgiven accepted
Redeemed by His grace
Let the house of the Lord sing praise

Interlude 2
There is joy in this house oh yeah
There is joy there is joy
And we won't be quiet
We're gonna shout out Your praise

Ending
We shout out Your praise
There is joy in this house
There is joy in this house today
We shout out Your praise
We shout out Your praise

Jonathan Smith, Phil Wickham
CCLI Song #7168995
© 2020 Be Essential Songs; Cashagamble Jet Music; Phil Wickham Music; Simply Global Songs
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License #195574

"Lord I Need You"

Verse 1
Lord I come I confess
Bowing here I find my rest
And without You I fall apart
You're the one that guides my heart

Chorus 1
Lord I need You oh I need You
Ev'ry hour I need You
My one defense my righteousness
Oh God how I need You

Verse 2
Where sin runs deep Your grace is more
Where grace is found is where You are
And where You are Lord I am free
Holiness is Christ in me
Where You are Lord I am free
Holiness is Christ in me

Bridge
So teach my song to rise to You
When temptation comes my way
And when I cannot stand I'll fall on You
Jesus You're my hope and stay
And when I cannot stand I'll fall on You
Jesus You're my hope and stay

Chorus 2
Lord I need You oh I need You
Ev'ry hour I need You
My one defense my righteousness
Oh God how I need You
My one defense my righteousness
Oh God how I need You

Christy Nockels, Daniel Carson, Jesse Reeves, Kristian Stanfill, Matt Maher
CCLI Song #5925687
© 2011 sixsteps Music; Sweater Weather Music; Thankyou Music; Valley Of Songs Music; worshiptogether.com songs
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License #195574

"Christ Our Hope In Life And Death"

Verse 1
What is our hope in life and death
Christ alone Christ alone
What is our only confidence
That our souls to Him belong
Who holds our days within His hand
What comes apart from His command
And what will keep us to the end
The love of Christ in which we stand

Chorus
O sing hallelujah
Our hope springs eternal
O sing hallelujah
Now and ever we confess
Christ our hope in life and death

Verse 2
What truth can calm the troubled soul
God is good God is good
Where is His grace and goodness known
In our great Redeemer's blood
Who holds our faith when fears arise
Who stands above the stormy trial
Who sends the waves that bring us nigh
Unto the shore the rock of Christ

Verse 3
Unto the grave what will we sing
Christ He lives Christ He lives
And what reward will heaven bring
Everlasting life with Him
There we will rise to meet the Lord
Then sin and death will be destroyed
And we will feast in endless joy
When Christ is ours forevermore

Jordan Kauflin, Keith Getty, Matt Boswell, Matt Papa, Matthew Merker
CCLI Song #7147502
© 2020 Getty Music Hymns and Songs; Getty Music Publishing; Jordan Kauflin Music; Love Your Enemies Publishing; Matthew Merker Music; Messenger Hymns
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License #195574

Confession & Assurance 

Leader: Please join us in this prayer of confession, reading the words in bold:

Leader: Holy and merciful God,
in your presence we confess
our sinfulness, our shortcomings,
and our offenses against you.

All: You alone know how often we have sinned
in wandering from your ways,
in wasting your gifts,
in forgetting your love.

Leader: Have mercy on us, O Lord,
for we are ashamed and sorry
for all we have done to displease you.

All: Forgive our sins,
and help us to live in your light
and walk in your ways,
for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.

Leader: Brothers and sisters, hear the good news from Colossians 2:13-14: 13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. 

All: He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

Leader: (Prayer)

Leader: You may be seated. 

Announcements

Scripture Reading: 

Philippians 1:18b-26 (NIV)

Leader: Please return and remain standing (as you are able) for today’s Scripture reading from Philippians 1:18b-26. After the reading, the response will be, “Thanks be to God.”

Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. 20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; 24 but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. 25 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, 26 so that through my being with you again your boasting in Christ Jesus will abound on account of me.

Leader: The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God!

Leader: You may be seated.

Message: Tim Allen


"In Christ Alone"

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light my strength my song
This cornerstone this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest
Drought and storm

What heights of love
What depths of peace
When fears are stilled
When strivings cease
My Comforter my all in all
Here in the love of Christ I stand

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious day
Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny

No power of Hell no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand

I find my strength
I find my hope
I find my help
In Christ alone
When fear assails
When darkness falls
I find my peace
In Christ alone

I give my life
I give my all
I sing this song
To Christ alone
The King of Kings
The Lord of all
All Heaven sings
To Christ alone

Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand
Here in the power of Christ we stand

Prayers of the People & Communion

"Cornerstone"

Verse 1
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus' Name
(REPEAT)

Chorus
Christ alone cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour's love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all

Verse 2
When darkness seems to hide His face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
My anchor holds within the veil

Interlude
He is Lord Lord of all

Verse 3
When He shall come with trumpet sound
Oh may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless stand before the throne

Edward Mote, Eric Liljero, Jonas Myrin, Reuben Morgan, William Batchelder Bradbury
CCLI Song #6158927
© 2011 Hillsong MP Songs; Hillsong Music Publishing Australia; Hillsong Music Publishing UK
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License #195574

Psalms 20:6-8 (NIV)

Leader: As we go, receive this benediction from Psalm 20:6-8:

6 Now this I know:
  The Lord gives victory to his anointed.
He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary
  with the victorious power of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
  but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
8 They are brought to their knees and fall,
  but we rise up and stand firm.