Sunday Sermon
"A Legacy of Love"
By:
Pastor Heather Nysewander
The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,[
a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly,[b] but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Music by:
Cindy and Steve Story, Steve Burkhalter
I Love To Tell The Story (Eaton Square)
Verse 1
I love to tell the story
Of unseen things above
Of Jesus and His glory
Of Jesus and His love
I love to tell the story
Because I know 'tis true
It satisfies my longings
As nothing else can do
Chorus
I love to tell the story
'Twill be my theme in glory
To tell the old old story
Of Jesus and His love
Verse 2
I love to tell the story
More wonderful it seems
Than all the golden fancies
Of all our golden dreams
I love to tell the story
It did so much for me
And that is just the reason
I tell it now to thee
Verse 3
I love to tell the story
'Tis pleasant to repeat
What seems each time I tell it
More wonderfully sweet
I love to tell the story
For some have never heard
The message of salvation
From God's own holy Word
Verse 4
I love to tell the story
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the rest
And when in scenes of glory
I sing the new new song
'Twill be the old old story
That I have loved so long
Mighty To Save
Everyone needs compassion Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness The kindness of a Savior
The hope of nations
Chorus
Savior He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save He is mighty to save
Forever Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as You find me All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow Everything I believe in
Now I surrender (chorus)
Shine your light and let the whole world see, We're singing
For the glory of the risen King, Jesus
Shine your light and let the whole world see, We're singing
For the glory of the risen King
King Of Love
With the hands that formed the world, You washed our feet
Kneeling down You laid aside Your majesty
And You said for us to go and do the same
So we serve for the glory of our King
You left Heaven's throne to rescue what was lost
Stretching out Your mighty arms to bear the cross
Then You rolled away the stone the victory won
And You said go and tell the world What love has done
Chorus
King of love let Your kingdom come
Reign in us Your daughters and Your sons
Fill us up 'til we overflow
With Your love until the whole world knows
You are the King of love
Give us hearts that long to see Your justice done
And let the river of Your mercy flow through us
And let compassion be the loudest song we sing
'Til the day when every tongue declares You King
Hallelujah to the King of love
All praise and glory to the King of love
Verse 1
This is my Father's world
And to my list'ning ears
All nature sings and 'round me rings
Music of the spheres
This is my Father's world
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought
Verse 2
This is my Father's world
The birds their carols raise
The morning light the lily white
Declare their Maker's praise
This is my Father's world
He shines in all that's fair
In the rust'ling grass I hear Him pass
He speaks to me ev'rywhere
Verse 3
This is my Father's world
O let me ne'er forget
And though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the Ruler yet
This is my Father's world
The battle is not done
Jesus who died shall be satisfied
And earth and heaven be one
The Gift Of Love
Verse 1
Though I may speak with bravest fire
And have the gift to all inspire
And have not love my words are vain
As sounding brass and hopeless gain
Verse 2
Though I may give all I possess
And striving so my love profess
But not be given by love within
The profit soon turns strangely thin
Verse 3
Come Spirit come our hearts control
Our spirits long to be made whole
Let inward love guide every deed
By this we worship and are freed
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th)
Chorus
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