Lines and

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A Word from the Stand . . .

Rehearsal Order:

Speak, O Lord

Service Preview

All for the Praise of

God

At the Break of

Day

Officer Elections

Devotional

Barbara White

Anthem List

January 23

Speak, O Lord

January 30

All for the Praise of

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February 6

At the Break of Day

FIRST BAPTIST

CHURCH

JANUARY 19, 2011

A Weekly Newsletter for The Sanctuary Choir of First Baptist Church

2011 Easter Season Our 2011 Easter presentation, Tenebrae: Jesus, Light of the World, will be

presented on Good Friday, April 22, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. I chose to do a Good Friday

service so that we would not “compete” with the Deacon-led evangelism campaign

to begin soon. From the North American Mission Board website: “God’s Plan for

Sharing (GPS) will have a special evangelism campaign every other year beginning

in 2010 and continuing through the year 2020. The first of these campaigns is

called Across North America and is considered a Sowing event. This evangelism

campaign is designed to get the gospel into every home in North America during

the 2011 Easter season.” Thus, doing a Good Friday presentation will not get in the

way of this special emphasis for Easter Sunday morning. I am already making

plans for a festive, visual song service on both

Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday.

In order to help people understand why

we are doing a Good Friday service, I will

post a description of the service’s intent on the

church website (www.fbcpinebluff.org). I encourage

you to familiarize yourself with this description as

well.

Tenebrae is a simple service. “In that beautiful sim-

plicity, the story we all know so well of a babe in a

manger and a man on a cross, touches something

deep inside each of us.” The dimly lit Sanctu-

ary suggest a sense of mourning. We will plan

to wear black and white—ALL black for the

ladies and white shirt, dark tie, black pants for

the men.

Let us prepare ourselves to be used by Him!

BLOOPERS and BLUNDERS 2

Prayer Requests 2

Weekly Devotion 3

Worship Preview 4

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

The Prayer Partner

Ministry for the second

half of the 2010-2011

choir year will start

Sunday, January 23rd!

If you would like to be

included in this

“ministry within a

ministry,” please see

Erin Bolton ASAP!

This would be a great time to encourage people

to join the choir. Make a special effort to bring someone with you next

week as we preview the 2011 Easter music.

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Birthdays &

Anniversaries

18—Barbara White

19—James House

23—Barbara & Reuben Russell

Please remember

your fellow choir

members in prayer

this week:

Roger Minyard, cataract surgery

yesterday (1-18-11).

Barbara Buckelew, Billie

Minton’s cousin.

Pat Moseley, recovering from

back surgery.

Children’s Choir Leadership

Team and Kids

If you have a prayer need, please fill

out the pink form on the black piano.

The Sanctuary Bells are in

NEED of TWO more ringers as

we prepare for the State Hand-

bell Festival. The Festival will

be March 11-12, 2001 in Hot

Springs. Please consider join-

ing us every Monday at 6p.m.

Coming

Soon!

Presented by

The Children’s Choir Ministry

May 8, 2011

6:00 p.m.

A new feature to Lines and

Spaces is Coming Soon!

Actual bulletin BLOOPERS and BLUNDERS

We are especially thankful that when Sister Dora was at death’s door, the Lord and

her doctors pulled her through.

Congratulations to Tim and Ronda on the birth of their daughter October 12 thru 17.

If you choose to heave during the Postlude, please do so quietly.

Hymn: “I Love Thee My Ford.”

Helpers are needed! Please sign up on the information sheep.

The Advent Retreat will be held in the lover level of St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Thank you, dead friends.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget all His benefits.

For the word of God is quick and powerful…piercing even to the dividing asunder of

soup and spirit.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peach to men.

We pray that our people will jumble themselves.

Sign-up sheet for anyone wishing to be baptized in water on the table in the foyer

On the lighter side . . .

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Weekly

Devotion

“Let us

search out

and examine

our ways, and

turn back to

the Lord.”

Lamentations 3:40

Article Title: Songs for Services

Author: Keith Getty

Article Source: www.gettymusic.com

Article Focus: A hymn for the preaching

of the word.

One of Christianity's distinctives is that

we worship a God who has spoken - who

is not silent. From God the Father, speak-

ing the world into creation, to speaking

through His Living word in Christ, to

speaking by His Spirit through the written

word.

Throughout history the word of God has

transformed the most proud leaders and

the most hopeless victims, the greatest

civilizations and the remotest of villages,

in every age to every corner of the

world—so incredible is its power.

Often today however the preaching of the

word has been diminished in value—

from its prominence in a service to its

passion, but most of all in our own expec-

tation each time we sit down and ask God

to speak to us.

In Isaiah the people were performing

many acts in the name of God and the

Lord said "This is the one to whom I will

turn my face—he who is humble and

contrite and trembles at my word".

It is our prayer that through the power of

the spirit, this hymn will prepare people

to humbly listen to the Bible being taught

and respond to the huge consequences it

has on their lives.

After "In Christ Alone" and "The Power

of the Cross" this is the most requested

Getty/Townend hymn on our website. It

is used both to introduce the sermon and

to introduce a service. We used it

both before and after a sermon when we

were with Anne Graham Lotz as a way of

affirming the message. It also works well

as a choral and solo piece.

Song Lyrics: Speak, O Lord, as we come to You

To receive the food of Your Holy

Word.

Take Your truth, plant it deep in us;

Shape and fashion us in Your

likeness,

That the light of Christ might be seen

today

In our acts of love and our deeds of

faith.

Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us

All Your purposes for Your glory.

Teach us, Lord, full obedience,

Holy reverence, true humility;

Test our thoughts and our attitudes

In the radiance of Your purity.

Cause our faith to rise;

Cause our eyes to see

Your majestic love and authority.

Words of power that can never fail,

Let their truth prevail over unbelief.

Speak, O Lord, and renew our minds;

Help us grasp the heights of Your

plans for us -

Truths unchanged from the dawn of

time

That will echo down thro' eternity.

And by grace we'll stand on Your

promises,

And by faith we'll walk as You walk

with us.

Speak, O Lord, 'til Your church is

built

And the earth is filled with Your

glory.

“Speak, O Lord”

Words and Music by Stuart Townend & Keith Getty

© Copyright 2005 Thank You Music—CCLI # 603774

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FIRST BAPTIST

CHURCH

JANUARY 19, 2011

“Excellence in all things, and all things to the glory of God.”

—————

Choir Officers

Roger Minyard President

Barbara White Vice-President

Ann Smith Secretary

Marcie Stom Treasurer

Cuba Keaton Robe Coordinator

Billie Minton Social Coordinator

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Section Leaders

Lisa Grigg Soprano

Pat Bethea Alto

Horace Green Tenor

Sam Eifling Bass

Worship Preview January 23, 2011

Preparation for Worship ......................................................................... Instrumentalists

Organ Prelude to Worship ............................................................................ Janine Tiner

THE GATHERING Call to Worship .......................................................................................... Bryan Bolton

Chorus of Prayer and Praise—Sanctuary ................................... Thompson and Scruggs (Text projected)

Welcome to Worship .............................................................................................. Pastor

The Church in Fellowship

Hymn of Fellowship No. 2—Holy, Holy, Holy ................................................. NICAEA

Chorus No. 224—We Are Standing on Holy Ground ......................... HOLY GROUND

Morning Prayer (with “underscore”) ...................................................................... Pastor

THE SERVICE OF THE WORD Songs of Worship

Hymn No. 210—My Jesus, I Love Thee (St. 1, 2 & 3) ............................. GORDON

Chorus No. 212—I Love You, Lord ....................................... I LOVE YOU, LORD

Hymn No. 210—My Jesus, I Love Thee (St. 4) ........................................ GORDON

Congregational Memory Verse ................................................................... Romans 12:1

Choral Worship—Speak, O Lord ........................................................ Arr. David Shipps Sanctuary Choir & Soloist

Offertory Hymn No. 4—To God Be the Glory.................... TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Offertory Prayer .............................................................................. Deacon of the Week

Organ Offertory—I Offer My Life (Cloninger and Moen) ........................... Janine Tiner

Message ........................ Sermon Series: Stewardship of Ability .......................... Pastor

“Do Your Gifts Glorify God?”

(1 Peter 4:10-11)

We Respond to God ................................................................................ All Worshipers

With Our Lives

Hymn of Invitation No. 282—Living for Jesus ..................................... LIVING

With Our Time

Opportunities for Worship and Service ..................................................... Pastor

THE GOING FORTH Song of Benediction—To God Be the Glory ....................... TO GOD BE THE GLORY

(Refrain only—Text projected)

Organ Dismissal ........................................................................................... Janine Tiner