Sunday May 24th, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 46:8-11

To be read aloud by someone in your home

Come and see what the Lord has done,
    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.
He says, “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.

Opening Prayer

• Take a few moments of silence, remembering the power of God and His presence with you, right now.

• Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for His presence and asking Him to show Himself to you in new ways, as you worship today.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #6

Congregational Singing

• We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

• Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

• This is Memorial Day Weekend, in which we remember those who have given their lives in service to our country.

• Take a moment of silence in memory of those who have died, and to pray for the families and friends who continue to remember and mourn those they have lost.

• Pray as well for those who are serving now in our armed forces and for the leaders of our country who continue to be faced with difficult situations and decisions. Pray for wisdom, courage - and for peace, and in and through that peace the further advance of the Gospel around the world.

Offering & Offeratory

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

• You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

• Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - I Timothy 1:3-5

This morning’s sermon comes to us from Dustin Ward, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Yarmouth, Maine

Sermon: Equipping God’s People - Equipping Against Strange Doctrines

Sunday May 17th, 2020

God Gathers Us

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Call to Worship - I Peter 1:3-9

To be read aloud by someone in your home

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Opening Prayer

• Take a moment to think/share together the promises that are contained in these verses. What has God promised us? And what is the hope that we have because of those promises?

• Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for His promises and the hope He gives us.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #5

Congregational Singing

• We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

• Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

• When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, His model prayer (what we call the Lord’s Prayer) included this request: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”. Jesus was not speaking of monetary debts, but rather those wrongs that we have committed against God and against others.

• In other words, Jesus taught us to regularly consider how we have been living and confess our sins to God, asking for His forgiveness. AND Jesus taught us that in light of God’s forgiveness of us, we should forgive others.

• If you are able (in light of the children you may have with you!), take a few moments of silence, considering your week and asking God to show you any area of sin you need to confess to Him, or any actions you need to take to make things right with others.

• Then, pray asking for God’s forgiveness, and thanking God for His promise to forgive us when we ask.

• 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

Offering

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

• You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

• Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - John 2:1-12

This morning’s Scripture reader is Melissa Morrill

Sermon: New Creation, New Covenant

Sunday, May 10th, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 95:1-7

To be read aloud by someone in your home

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
    let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and extol him with music and song.

For the Lord is the great God,
    the great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth,
    and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
    and his hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us bow down in worship,
    let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
for he is our God
    and we are the people of his pasture,
    the flock under his care.

Opening Prayer

• Take a moment to think about/share together how God is described in these verses. What images are used to describe God? What aspects of God’s character are celebrated?

• Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for who He is.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #4

Congregational Singing

• We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

• Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

• Take some time to pray giving thanks for your mother, praying for your mother and other mothers in the church that they would be strengthened and blessed, and for those who for whom this is a difficult day, that they would be comforted and encouraged in the love of Christ.

Offering

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

• You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

• Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - Romans 13:1-10

This morning’s Scripture reader is Sue Robinson

Sermon: The Good of Government and the Christian Outlaw

Sunday, May 3rd, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 27:1-5

To be read aloud by someone in your home

The Lord is my light and my salvation—
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
    of whom shall I be afraid?

When the wicked advance against me
    to devour me,
it is my enemies and my foes
    who will stumble and fall.
Though an army besiege me,
    my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
    even then I will be confident.

One thing I ask from the Lord,
    this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
    and to seek him in his temple.
For in the day of trouble
    he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent
    and set me high upon a rock.

Opening Prayer

• Take a moment to think about anything that may be troubling your heart or weighing on your mind - concerns you may have for yourself or for others that you know and love.

• Now take a moment to pray, bringing these concerns to the Lord, but also thanking God for the truth that He is our rock and our refuge, and asking Him to show you again this morning who He is that you might continue to grow in faith in Him.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #3

Congregational Singing

• We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

• Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

• As we all know, these are difficult days, with many difficult decisions required. Take a few moments to list out some of the local and national leaders who have hard decisions to make in the coming days and weeks.

• These are also challenging days for churches across Maine and across the country and across the world. Take a few moments to think of some of the other church communities you know of in the Augusta area and beyond.

• And then think of your household as well, and the needs that you have, the decisions you have to make.

• Now, take some time to pray for these you have thought of, asking God for His wisdom for all of these leaders and situations, and for God to humble and strengthen leaders, to depend on the Lord and to stand strong in doing what is right.

Offering

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

• You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

• Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - John 1:35-51

This morning’s Scripture reader is the Flanagan family

Sermon: “Come and See”

Sunday, April 26th, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 19:12-14

To be read aloud by someone in your home

Who can discern their own errors?
    Forgive my hidden faults.
Keep your servant also from willful sins;
    may they not rule over me.
Then I will be blameless,
    innocent of great transgression.

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
    be pleasing in your sight,
    Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Opening Prayer

• Take a moment of quiet, to ask God to search your heart and show you if there are things that you need forgiveness for; faults you haven’t seen, that you have been guilty of this past week, and for which you need God’s forgiveness.

• But remember - God is our rock, and our Redeemer. Pray asking for forgiveness, but also thanking God for His promise to forgive and cleanse us, and asking Him to show you again His love and grace.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #2

Congregational Singing

• We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

• Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

• Take a few moments to think about/share together how God has shown his care for you this week.

• Now take some time to think about/share together some of the needs that you have right now and the needs of others you know.

• Now, take some time to pray thanking God for His care and asking God to meet the needs that you have shared.

• Close by praying the Lord’s Prayer together:

  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 and ever, Amen.

Offering

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

• You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

• Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - John 1:14-29

This morning’s Scripture reader is Kay Degon

Sermon: “We Have Seen His Glory”