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Bayshore Gardens

Community Church

Believing, Again

Gaining Hope

Caring Relationships

Christ Jesus

WE EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO

MEMBERS,

REGULAR ATTENDERS,

and

THOSE VISITING TODAY.

If you are visiting with us,

we welcome you to our church!

You are no longer a stranger

for you are with the people of God.

WE INVITE YOU TO SIGN

THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD

so that we may celebrate your

presence with us today!

Please pass it on

to the next person

and then back down the row

Please Take

Your Bulletins Home

With You

And Read the Announcements

We invite you to

take advantage

of the Opportunities

for fellowship and service

The Sacrament of

Holy Communion will be

offered next Sunday,

July 3 – 9:00am

THE CALL TO WORSHIP [Pastor / CONGREGATION]

We believe in God

WHO HAS CREATED AND IS CREATING;

Who has come to us in Jesus Christ

TO RECONCILE AND RENEW US;

Who works in us and others by His Spirit;

WE BELIEVE IN GOD

Who calls us to be His Church;

TO CELEBRATE HIS PRESENCE;

To love and serve others;

TO SEEK JUSTICE AND RESIST EVIL;

To proclaim the Lord Jesus Christ:

CRUCIFIED, RISEN, AND COMING AGAIN;

We believe in God who is with us

BEFORE LIFE, DURING LIFE,

In life after death.

WE BELIEVE IN GOD;

We are not alone:

THANKS BE TO GOD! AMEN !

‘I WILL SING OF MY REDEEMER’

[ All who are able please stand ]

I will sing of my Redeemer

and His wondrous love to me

On the cruel cross He suffered

From the curse to set me free.

Sing, O sing of my Redeemer,

With His blood He purchased me

On the cross He sealed my pardon,

Paid the debt and made me free.

(2)

I will tell the wondrous story

How my lowly estate to save,

In His boundless love and mercy

He the ransom freely gave.





(3)

I will praise my dear Redeemer;

His triumphant power I’ll tell,

How the victory He gives us,

over sin and death from hell.





(4)

I will sing of my Redeemer

and His heavenly love for me;

He from death to life has brought me,

Son of God, with Him to be.





SILENT PRAYERS OF

THANKSGIVING AND CONFESSION

THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON

Daniel 9:9

Even though we have

sinned against Him,

the Lord our God

is merciful and forgiving.

‘O HOW HE LOVES YOU AND ME’ (Praising God for the forgiveness of our sins)

O how He loves you and me!


He gave His life;

What more could He give?

O how He loves you!

O how He loves me!


Jesus to Calvary did go;

His love for sinners to show.

What He did there

brought hope from despair.

O how He loves you!

O how He loves me!


A TIME OF SHARING WITH

GOD’S CHILDREN

OF ALL AGES

THE HEBREW SCRIPTURE

Joshua 2:1-21 Read by Roxanne VanDyke

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim.

“Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.”

So they went and entered the house of a prostitute

named Rahab and stayed there. The king of Jericho was

told, “Look, some of the Israelites have come here

tonight to spy out the land.”

So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab:

“Bring out the men who came to you and entered your

house, because they have come to spy out the whole

land.”

But Rahab had taken the two men and hidden them. She

said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where

they had come from. At dusk, when it was time to close

the city gate, they left. I don’t know which way they went.

Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.” (But

she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under

the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.)

So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road

that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the

pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut. Before the

spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof and

said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this

land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us,so that

all who live in this country are melting in fear because of

you.

We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the

Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what

you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites

east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed.

When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and

everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord

your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you will

show kindness to my family, because I have shown

kindness to you. Give me a sure sign that you will spare

the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and

sisters, and all who belong to them — and that you will

save us from death.”

“Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her.

“If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you

kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.”

So she let them down by a rope through the window, for

the house she lived in was part of the city wall. She said

to them, “Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find

you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return,

and then go on your way.”

Now the men had said to her, “This oath you made us

swear will not be binding on us unless, when we enter

the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window

through which you let us down, and unless you have

brought your father and mother, your brothers and all

your family into your house. If any of them go outside

your house into the street, their blood will be on their

own heads; we will not be responsible.

As for those who are in the house with you, their blood

will be on our head if a hand is laid on them. But if you

tell what we are doing, we will be released from the oath

you made us swear. ” “Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as

you say.” So she sent them away, and they departed. And

she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

THE SONG OF PREPARATION

‘WE WORSHIP AND ADORE YOU’

We worship and adore You,

Bowing down before You,

Songs of praises singing,

Hallelujahs ringing,

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, AMEN.

(Please Repeat)

YADA, YADA

Keeping Our Promises

Text:

Joshua 2:1-21; For further study: Joshua 5:13-15; 6:1-27

Please see Sermon Outline

Rev. Dr. Daniel Herlein Bayshore Gardens Community Church

The leaders of Jericho were shrewd and

excellent military strategists

Rahab had to make a firm

irreversible CHOICE:

No gray area

No fence sitting

No time for

procrastinating

Flax

JOSHUA 2:8

Before the spies lay down for the night,

Rahab went up on the roof

and said to the spies,

“I KNOW that the LORD

has given this land to you.”

The Hebrew word in verse 9,

translated in the English “I know,”

is the Hebrew word “Yada.”

יַָדע

Joshua 6:5; Joshua 6:17

THE SCARLET THREAD

REMINDS US THAT

(1) Our personal faith in God through Jesus

Christ is our only true security and not the walls

that we build

(2) Nothing in this life can separate us from

God’s love, grace, and presence with us

(3) The blood line of redemption runs from the

beginning of the Bible, through every chapter

and verse, to the last inspired Word of Scripture

The Pastoral Prayer

and

The Lord’s Prayer

OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN,

HALLOWED BE THY NAME.

THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE,

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD,

AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS;

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION

BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM,

AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY FOREVER

AMEN.

OUR OFFERING

As A Tangible Expression

Of Our Gratitude To God,

We Joyfully Offer Our

Monetary Gifts

To Financially Support

God's Work At

Bayshore Gardens

Community Church

OFFERTORY MUSIC “Softly and Tenderly,

Jesus Is Calling”

Harriet Hoeksema

THE DOXOLOGY PRAISE GOD

FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW; PRAISE HIM ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW;

PRAISE HIM ABOVE YE HEAVENLY HOST; PRAISE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST.

AMEN

THE CLOSING HYMN

#581

‘Tis So Sweet

To Trust In Jesus’

(1)

’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,

Just to take Him at His Word;

Just to rest upon His promise,

And to know, “Thus says the Lord!”

Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!

How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er;

Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!

Oh, for grace to trust Him more!

(2)

Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus,

Just to trust His cleansing blood;

And in simple faith to plunge me

’Neath the healing, cleansing flood!





(3)

Yes, ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,

Just from sin and self to cease;

Just from Jesus simply taking

Life and rest, and joy and peace.





(4)

I’m so glad I learned to trust You,

Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;

And I know that You are with me,

Will be with me to the end.





THE PASTORAL BENEDICTION

Go forth from this place

as God’s elect and covenant people . . .

AMEN