Sunday | March 3, 2013 | 11:00 a.m.
Order of WorshipThe Lord’s Day March 3, 2013 11:00 a.m.
Rev. James R. Carter, Senior Pastor
Scripture for Silent Meditation Psalm 84:1-4 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah
prelude Bells of Praise; Richard Rogers, Director Rejoice! Cynthia Dobrinski
tolling of the carillon
introit
Awake, Arise, Break Forth into Joyful Song Hughes Huffman
call to WorShip Rev. James R. Carter
† hyMn of adoration
Immortal, Invisible No. 25
† invocation and the lord’S prayer (sung) No. 426
MiniStry of MuSic Abide With Me arr. Sally DeFord
Michael Irvin, Soloist; Allison DeMarco, Flute
† prayer of confeSSion from Psalm 51:1-6, 10-12, 15-17Have mercy on me, O God, in your faithful love, in your great tenderness wipe away my offences; wash me thoroughly from my guilt, purify me from my sin. For I am well aware of my offences, my sin is constantly in mind. Against you, you alone, I have sinned, I have done what you see to be wrong, that you may show your saving justice when you pass sentence, and your victory may appear when you give judgment, remember, I was born guilty, a sinner from the moment of conception. But you delight in sincerity of heart, and in secret you teach me wisdom. God, create in me a clean heart, renew within me a resolute spirit, do not thrust me away from your presence, do not take away from me your spirit of holiness. Give me back the joy of your salvation, sustain in me a generous spirit. Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will speak out your praise. Sacrifice gives you no pleasure, burnt offering you do not desire. Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit, a broken, contrite heart you never scorn. Amen.
† gloria patri No. 622
† reading of the ScriptureS II Corinthians 8:10-12 (ESV)In this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
Pastor: The grass withers, the flower fades, Isaiah 40:8 (ESV)Congregation: but the word of our God will stand forever.
paStoral prayer and prayer reSponSe Dr. Jerry T. Newcombe Hear Our Prayer, O Lord George Whelpton
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offertory prayer and offertory
An Expression of Gratitude David SchwoebelSanctuary Choir; Dr. John L. Wilson, Director
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always with joy in every prayer for you. I thank my God for your fellowship in the gospel from the very first day ‘til now. I thank my God for you, and I am sure that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ. And this I pray, that your love may abound more and more, abound in knowledge, in judgment, that you may approve what is excellent to the glory of God, that you may be pure and blameless, filled with the fruits of righteousness, which comes through Christ Jesus. I thank my God! - Philippians 1:3-6, 9-11
† doxology No. 625
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HOW SHOuLD I GIVE? Rev. James R. Carter
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I Surrender All No. 366 (Verses 1 & 4)
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† hyMn of reSponSe and deacon Benevolence offering Amazing Grace (see next page)
Please remain seated while singing verses 1 to 3, as the offering is being taken, standing as directed for verse 4.
† Benediction and Benediction reSponSe Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus (Please join with the choir on the repeat) Helen Lemmel
poStlude Final (From Symphony No. 1) Louis Vierne
† Those who are able, please stand.
Following the worship service, a time of fellowship and refreshments will be held in the cafeteria.
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Evening Worship Service ◆ 6:30 p.m.NPC South Campus: 512 Northeast 26th Street, Wilton Manors
Sermon Notes
Mission & Vision Statements
Vision Statement - New Presbyterian Church desires to be a congregation that impacts and influences the community and culture for the glory of God. We strive to foster an environment of grace, and work to deepen relationships of trust, in which there is genuine fellowship, which is defined by a spirit of acceptance, affirmation and accountability.
Mission Statement - The mission of NPC is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to equip every member to faithfully serve and obey His commands. Our goal is to joyfully and practically live out our calling to “glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” The application of our mission is defined by our Four Pillars: Reverent Worship, Evangelism, Biblical World & Life View, and Reformed Theology.
Announcements
Messages To Go: CDs and DVDs of services, are available in the lobby Welcome Center, immediately following the worship service. They are useful not only for personal growth, but also as an outreach tool for inviting visitors.
For your contributions, please make checks payable to New Presbyterian Church (include any special designations on the memo line). You may also contribute via credit card or check online. www.newpres.org. If you wish for cash contributions to appear on your giving statement, envelopes are available in the Welcome Center.
Volunteer Sign-Up - Our church has been sustained for three years by an amazing group of volunteers. If you are one of those, as a congregation we applaud you. THANK YOU for your service. If you have not yet experienced the joy of participation, we need you! If you are only here a few months each year, we need you. There is something for you to do. You will be blessed and as a congregation we will be strengthened as you become involved. Become a part of the team. Please call Gladys Israels at the Ministry Center Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Deacon Benevolence Fund Offering - This fund is supported by your love gifts including the offering being taken today. The Deacons, through your gifts, have helped our fellow brothers and sisters at NPC in need during these difficult economic times. Thank you!
Thursday Night Dinner & Classes - Dinner will be served from 5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. with classes starting at 6:30 p.m. Please make your dinner reservations on the registration form in this bulletin. The cost is $5 per person, $20 maximum per family.
Free Estate Planning Seminar - 9 a.m. to 11 a.m, Saturday. March 23 at the Ministry Center. Plan now to attend this helpful seminar to learn techniques to avoid probate; how to reduce and avoid estate taxes; the importance of having durable power of attorney and healthcare documents; and charitable giving techniques. Mr. William A. Snyder, JD.,LLM will conduct this seminar. Mr Snyder is board certified by the Florida bar in wills, trusts, and estates; he is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Miami law school graduate program in estate planning and he has both a JD degree from the University of Florida and an LLM in estate planning from the University of Miami. He is a fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Attorneys (ACTEC). Coffee and danish will be served, Please sign-up on the registration or call 954.946.4380 to reserve your seat for the free seminar.
Fresh Flowers: If you wish to provide communion table flowers, in memory of loved ones or family events, please contact Fred Kuhn at 561.391.5719.
Prime Timers (55 plus)
Next Program - Next program: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. at the Ministry Center. Devotions by Dr. Jerry T. Newcombe, and the program by Grace Chavis, a world wide speaker who will talk about communication changes from then until now. Reservations deadline is Friday, March 8.
Cancer Support Ministry
The Cancer Support Ministry, has their covered dish dinner on the first Thursday of each month (6:30 p.m.), and is hosted by Betty Strohmeier. Come share an evening with our group of caring survivors, family and friends. For more information call 954.492.5534.
To notify the NPC congregation of a birth in the family, please contact Fran Buit ([email protected]).
Birth Announcements
Samuel Metzger Concert Organistwith special guests Carrie Quarquesso Soprano Mei Mei Luo Violin
Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 2 p.m.Admission is free, an offering will be taken
Missions Conference
The NPC Mission's Conference, will be held March 7-10, at the NPC South Campus (Covenant).•Thursday Night: Supper will be from 5:30 to 6:30
p.m. Speaker is Dr. John Barber from Equipping Pastors International
•Saturday Morning: 9:30 to noon. Continental breakfast will be served. There will be three speakers, Dale Rozell from Glasses for Missions, Rev. Marc Mailloux with Mission to the World, Chuck Burge from EE International. There will be breaks and discussion times.
•Sunday Morning: Rev. Martin Hawley from Reformation Hope will be the guest speaker. Nancy McDonald will give a testimony about Hope Women's Center.
Please sign-up for the dinner and breakfast on the registration form.
Women's Ministry
Weekly Bible Studies ♦ Tuesday Evenings at 7 p.m. at the Ministry Center• Discovering the Excellency of Christ - A Study of the Book
of Hebrews, Randi Walter, teaching ♦ Friday Mornings at 9:30 a.m. at the Ministry Center• Respectable Sins, Terri Carter, teaching• Discovering the Excellency of Christ - A Study of the Book
of Hebrews, Kirsti Newcombe, teachingMonthly Circles (In private homes unless indicated.)
♦ 1st Monday at 7 p.m. - (Ministry Center)Ruth Circle, Pat Caccamo, Circle Leader (954.263.2131), Terri Carter, Teacher
♦ 1st Tuesday at 7 p.m. - Hannah Circle, Heidi DeConcini, Circle Leader (561.865.4510), Kirsti Newcombe, Teacher
♦ 2nd Thursday at 10 a.m. - Priscilla Circle - Betty Strohmeier, Circle Leader (954.492.5534), Kirsti Newcombe, Teacher
College & Career / Young Adults
@ NPC Connect meets on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. for fellowship and Bible study at Panera Bread Company (5975 North Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale). For more information please contact David Mallory (954.562.4329). Be sure to "like" NPC College/Career "Connect" Facebook page.
Strawberry Festival - Rejoice will hold a Strawberry Festival on March 16, 2013 at 4 p.m. at the NPC South Camps. Please join us for a lovely afternoon of fellowship and strawberry desserts! Tickets are $5.00. All are welcome!
Gold & Silver Fund-Raiser - If you would like to help a well deserving student during these difficult economic times, consider donating unused gold and silver. Donations of any broken or unused gold and silver jewelry, flatware, dental gold or coins are accepted. You may be surprised by just how much your donation could help a talented student! Please place any donated items in a bag with your name and address and drop them off at the NPC South Campus or the Ministry Center. If you have any questions, please give Lisa Wilson a call at 954.232.5483 (cell). All donations are tax deductible.
Continuing School Growth - We are delighted to announce that Rejoice School has grown to 57 students! This is more than a 50% increase over our first semester! All of our first semester students have also returned for the second. Be sure to let friends and family know about this wonderful opportunity. Rejoice is both an outreach of our music and cultural mandate ministries, and also an opportunity to draw new people into our church. Several of the new Youth Choir members singing in the Patriotic Concert came to us through Rejoice!
Spring Semester - Rejoice is now accepting applications for the Spring Semester.
Music, Drama, Speech & Creative Writing - Classes are offered for Preschoolers to Adults. For more information pick up a brochure at the Welcome Center or visit: www.rejoiceschool.org..
Rejoice School of the ArtsAdult Sunday School Class
New Sunday School Class - Pleasing God: What higher satisfaction is there than knowing that what we do and think is pleasing to God? But how can we, as imperfect Christians, ever hope to please a perfect God? Is it even possible in a world where temptations so often lead us astray? In this series of practical guidelines for Christian living, Dr. R.C. Sproul clearly identifies the struggles we all share in pleasing God and offers insights on how to overcome them.
Pastoral Care
Prayer Requests & Praise Reports are available at the Welcome Center. For prayer requests please contact Fran Buit at the Ministry Center or [email protected].
For Pastoral Care please contact Fran Buit at the Ministry Center. For after hours emergencies call 954.294.9239.
Music Ministry
Children's Choirs (grades 3-8) are held on Sundays at 8:45 am in the PBHS band room. New members welcome!
Christ's Ambassadors (grades 8-12) Sundays, 4:15 p.m. at the NPC South Campus. New members welcome!
Concert Series Benefactors - To become a benefactor contact Jennifer Bigelsen: [email protected] or 954.205.2533
Traits of the Self-LifeAs you make spiritual preparation for the
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper today, the following may be used as a help in self-examination.
Here are some of the features and manifestations of the self-life. The Holy Spirit alone can interpret and apply this to your individual case. As you read, examine yourself in the very presence of God. Are you ever conscious of a secret spirit of pride: an exalted feeling, in view of your success or position; because of your good training or appearance; because of your natural gifts and abilities? An important, independent spirit? Love of human praise; a secret fondness to be noticed; love of supremacy, drawing attention to self in conversation; a swelling out of self when you have had a free time in speaking or praying? The stirrings of anger or impatience, which, worst of all, you call nervousness or holy indignation; a touchy, sensitive spirit; a disposition to resent or retaliate when disapproved of or contradicted; a desire to throw sharp, heated flings at another? Self-will; a stubborn, unreachable spirit; an arguing, talkative spirit; harsh, sarcastic expressions; an unyielding, headstrong disposition; a driving commanding spirit; a disposition to criticize and pick flaws when set aside and unnoticed; a peevish, fretful spirit: a disposition that loves to be coaxed and humored? Carnal fear; a man-fearing spirit; a shrinking from reproach and duty; reasoning around your cross; a shrinking from doing your whole duty by those of wealth or position; a fearfulness that someone will offend and drive some prominent person away; a compromising spirit?
A jealous disposition, a secret spirit of envy shut up in your heart; an unpleasant sensation in view of the great prosperity and success of another; a disposition to speak of the faults and failings, rather than the gifts and virtues, of those more talented and appreciated than yourself? A dishonest, deceitful disposition; the evading and covering of the truth; the covering up of your real faults; leaving a better impression of yourself than is strictly true; false humility; exaggeration; straining the truth? unbelief; a spirit of discouragement in times of pressure and opposition; lack of quietness and confidence in God; lack of faith and trust in God; a disposition to worry and complain in the midst of pain, poverty, or at the dispensations of Divine Providence; an overanxious feeling whether everything will come out all right? Formality and deadness; lack of concern for lost souls; dryness and indifference; lack of power with God? Selfishness; love of ease; love of money? These are some of the traits which generally indicate a carnal heart. By prayer, hold your heart open to the searchlight of God, until you see the groundwork thereof. “Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me” (Psalm 139:23-24). The Holy Spirit will enable you, by confession and faith, to bring your “self-life” to the death. Do not patch over, but go to the bottom. It alone will pay.
Today
8:45 a.m. Children's Choir Rehearsal ...... Band Room
9:30 a.m. Nursery ......................... Portable Classrooms
9:30 a.m. Kindergarten to Middle School K-Junior High ................. Second Floor Rooms
“High School Plus” ................ Band Room
Adult Sunday School Dr. Jerry Newcombe: Christ & Culture .....Library
R. C. Sproul Video Series................. ROTC Rm
11:00 a.m. Worship Service .................................... Gym
4:15 p.m. Youth Choir Rehearsal ...... South Campus
6:30 p.m. Sunday Evening Service .... South Campus
This Week
Monday7:00 p.m. Women's Circle .....................Ministry CenterTuesday7:00 p.m. Women's Bible Study .............Ministry Center7:00 p.m. Women's Circle ....................... Private HomeWednesday5:30 p.m. Handbell Choir Rehearsal .........Ministry Cntr6:30 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal .......Ministry Cntr7:00 p.m. Youth Group ............................Ministry CntrThursday5:00 p.m. Dinner (served until 6:15) ...... South Campus6:30 p.m. Classes .................................. South Campus6:30 p.m. Cancer Support Dinner ...............Strohmeier'sFriday9:30 a.m. Women's Bible Study.................. Ministry Cntr11:30 a.m. Prayer Shawl Ministry ................ Ministry CntrSaturday3:00 p.m. Sanctuary Set-Up ..................................... PBHS
Upcoming Birthdays
Mar 01 ................................................................ Jensen BeatyMar 03 ...................................................... Elizabeth TrephanMar 04 ...................................................Blanca M. WeinsteinMar 07 ................................................................ Juli B. KuhnMar 08 ......................................................Bobby ChamberlinMar 08 .............................................................. Bill K StewartMar 09 ....................................................... Sandra S.WheelerMar 09 ........................................................... Tom C. WordenMar 10 .............................................................. Phyllis CurtisMar 11 ..................................................... Barbara W. WordenMar 13 ..............................................................Glenn C.DrewMar 14 ...................................................Emmanuel C.BrownMar 15 ..........................................................Priscilla SortinoMar 15 .............................................................Moyra StewartMar 16 ....................................................... Jennifer K.CassidyMar 16 ........................................................Cleitus D. Maurer
Calendar
3/8 .......... Dan & Lynette Westphal ........................... 28 years3/12 ........ Tom & Lorra Griswold ............................. 19 years3/13 ........ Don & Gladys Pemberton ........................ 58 years3/13 ........ Ernie & Debbie Wetzler ............................ 42 years3/14 ........ Layne & Cynthia Heise ............................. 43 years3/17 ........ Thomas & Carol Hudson ......................... 40 years4/3 .......... Bill & Suzi Lapere .................................... 37 years
Upcoming Anniversaries
Total Sunday Attendance: ................................................ 586
Giving for 2/18/13 thru 2/24/13:•General Fund............................................... $23,238.25•Mission Fund .................................................... $540.00•Deacon Fund .................................................... $505.00•Building Fund .................................................. $175.00•Other Designated Giving .................................... $20.00
2011-2013 Designated Building Fund .............. $262,342.92Building Fund.................................................... $732,200.00
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Elders Cal Longacre, Clerk .................................... [email protected] Balint ........................................................ [email protected] Bigelsen...............................................pbigelsen@newpres.orgChris Brown ....................................................cbrown@newpres.orgRobert Gage .......................................................bgage@newpres.orgMario Sales ................................................msales@newpres.orgVincent Sthair .................................................. [email protected] Slocumb .................................... [email protected] Wetzler............................................ewetzler@newpres.org
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MissionsJamal & Kim Alimanov .............................................. Heart to Heart, EE, UzbekistanAlliance Defending FreedomRichard & Barbara Altork .............................................. Wycliffe Bible TranslatorsDr. John Barber .........................................................Equipping Pastors InternationalDena Boswell ............................................................ Kids’ Evangelism Explosion, USAJane Brinkerhoff......................................................................................Nagoya, JapanChristian Anti-Defamation CommissionCreation Studies InstituteGuillermo De Giovanna ...................................Evangelism Explosion South AmericaEvangelism Explosion InternationalFriends for the Disabled ...........................................................................Latin AmericaHope Pregnancy CenterCraig & Heather Gahagen .......................................................... Amazon region, PeruNew Geneva Theological SeminaryTom & Carol Hudson ...........................................Presbyterian Mission InternationalSatoshi & Cally Kawachi .....................................................................Quebec, CanadaAlexandr & Veronica Knyazkov ...................................Heart to Heart EE, KazakhstanMarc & Aline Mailloux .........................................................Haitians of South FloridaBadamdorj J. Mongol ........................................Evangelism Explosion Dir., MongoliaPCA Mission to North AmericaRev. & Mrs. Dolphy Oliver ..................................................................................EE IndiaKeith & Ruth Powlison .............................................................................................PeruReformation Hope ................................................................................................... HaitiReformed Theological SeminaryDr. Nickolay Revtov ............................................. Evangelism Explosion Dir., EurasiaDale & Anita Rozell ........................................................................ Glasses for MissionsDick & Bonnie St. John .......................................................Evangelism Explosion USAThe Dr. D. James Kennedy Center .........................................................Washington, D.C.Undisclosed Missionaries .................................................................................... Eurasia
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Rev. William C. Lamkin, Minister to Family & [email protected]
Dr. Jerry T. Newcombe, Minister to the Community & [email protected]
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