Welcome to Wayside Presbyterian Church!Thank you for choosing to worship with us today! We are grateful that God has brought you here to Wayside. We are a church committed to the historic Christian faith, which strives to be biblical in worship, preaching, teaching, and ministry. We strive to be confessional, in that we share a common confession of faith. And we strive to be missional, taking the good news of Jesus Christ to Signal Mountain, to Chattanooga,

and to the ends of the earth. Whether you are a long-time member or visiting with us for the first time, we are glad that God has brought you to Wayside. May you know and love the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!

CHURCH STAFFDr. Brian H. Cosby Senior PastorDr. Charles M. Barrett Associate PastorRev. Nick Batzig Assistant PastorMrs. Mary Pat Mitchell Administrative AssistantRev. Allen Wallace Pastoral AssistantMrs. Sherry Moss Children’s CoordinatorMr. Michael Moore Music CoordinatorMr. Brent Bowman TreasurerMrs. Fern Eaves Organist/MusicianMrs. Jodi Hiser Pianist/MusicianMr. Tim Webb Maintenance CoordinatorMr. David Moss Chairman, SMCSMr. Jerry Best Chairman, Missions CommitteeMrs. Rachel Elliott Preschool DirectorMrs. Jan Wallace Hospitality Coordinator

CHURCH OFFICERSElders | 2020

Brian Cosby (moderator), Rick Jahn (clerk), Charles Barrett, Cale HorneDavid Moss, John Uthlaut, Aaron Gould, Larry Mick, Jerry Best, Chip Fellers

Deacons | 2020Brent Bowman (chairman), Kenny Galvani (clerk),

Tim Webb, Matt Hamilton, Richard French, Matthew Hiser

2502 Fairmount Pike | Signal Mountain, TN 37377 | 423.886.1181 | waysidechurch.org

Wayside Presbyterian Church

Lord’s Day Worship March 15, 2020 | 10:45am & 6:00pm

Wayside is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)

GOD CALLS US TO WORSHIP

Prelude

Welcome & Announcements

Greet One Another

Call to Worship & Invocation Psalm 92:1-2; 12-13Leader: It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night.People: The righteous flourish like a palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God.

Hymn Join All the Glorious Names #301 (1-5)

Join all the glorious names of wisdom, love, and pow'rThat ever mortals knew, that angels ever boreAll are too poor to speak his worth, too poor to set my Savior forth

Great Prophet of my God, my tongue would bless thy nameBy thee the joyful news of our salvation cameThe joyful news of sins forgiv'n, of hell subdued, and peace with heav'n

Jesus, my great High Priest, offered his blood and diedMy guilty conscience seeks no sacrifice besideHis pow'rful blood did once atone and now it pleads before the throne

Thou art my Counselor, my pattern, and my GuideAnd thou my Shepherd art; O keep me near thy sideNor let my feet e'er turn astray to wander in the crooked way

My Savior and my Lord, my Conqu'ror and my KingThy scepter and thy sword, thy reigning grace, I singThine is the pow'r; behold I sit in willing bonds beneath thy feet

PRAYER NEEDS

Our Nation & Leaders – for wisdom and righteousness

Church Officers – elders / deacons – for vision and leadership

Ministries of the church – Children’s Ministry, Men’s Ministry, Women’s Ministry, Small Groups, Outreach, Wayside Christian Preschool

Pray for Phyllis Brown, who was hospitalized this week with COPD and pneumonia, as well as reduced kidney function.

Please continue to pray for: John & Phyllis Brown, Robert Brown Jr., Roy Combs, Lily (granddaughter of the Combs), Kari Crouch, Kathy Davies, Sean Fannon, Ernie Gross, Rick & Betsy Harris, the Hiser family, Colleen Jones (Natalie Galvani’s mother), Les & Alma Keith, Marge McNutt, David Moss, Ron Sheppard (Ken’s brother), Jay & Geri Willard, and Johnny Woodruff

Military Families -- Trent Baker / Norfolk; Aaron Cherry; Jonathan Mick / CA; Campbell Thomas / NC; Robbie Winebarger / SC

WAYSIDE’S VISION & MISSIONVision: To glorify God by being a worshiping covenant community of equipped, mature, and joy-filled disciples of Jesus Christ, taking His gospel to Signal Mountain and to the ends of the earth.

Mission: To glorify God in making disciples of Jesus Christ by faithfully planting and watering the gospel through the ministry of the Word of God, prayer, sacraments, worship, service, and gospel community.

CCLI License # 11166138All Scripture references are in the English Standard Version

MINISTRIES AT WAYSIDE

Children’s Ministry – Wayside Kids (infant–5th grade) exists to come alongside parents to provide a biblically-based, Christ-centered environment to faithfully plant and water the promises of the gospel in the hearts of children, trusting the Lord to provide the growth and saving faith in their lives. To find out more information, please contact Sherry Moss.

Small Groups – Small groups meet for the purpose of fellowship, discussion, and prayer. For more information about these groups or to join, please contact the church office.

Women’s Ministry – The purpose of Wayside Women’s Ministry is to glorify God by equipping women to live out the biblical principles of womanhood within the gospel community of the church and to cultivate God-given gifts in multi-generational discipleship, encouragement, hospitality, and service.

Men’s Ministry – The purpose of the Men’s Ministry is to glorify God by equipping men for a life of Biblical manhood, expressed in a man’s responsibility to lead, provide, nurture, & protect. Join us for men’s breakfast every Wednesday @ 7:00a.m.

Wayside 101 – Taught by Pastor Brian Cosby, these classes introduce the vision, mission, values, and beliefs of Wayside Presbyterian Church. Visitors, prospective members, and current members may take the course. They are offered several times throughout the year. Please contact the church office for the next available class.

Mercy – Wayside partners with a variety of local ministries and missions on Signal Mountain and across Chattanooga. For a complete list, please contact the church office.

Community Outreach – At Wayside, we are involved in our community through Signal Mountain Social Services. We volunteer monthly at the Clothes House, and help provide meals to families through SMSS once a month. We also collect different items that SMSS needs for its various programs.

Missions – Wayside supports over 20 missionaries and mission organizations. For a complete list of these, please contact the church office or visit our website.

Preschool – Wayside Christian Preschool exists to provide a biblically-based, Christ-centered environment to foster education, social development, and community.

Signal Mountain Christian School – Signal Mountain Christian School exists to assist Christian parents in educating their children to better understand God’s Word and his world. It is our goal to partner with parents to lead their children to faith in Jesus Christ, and help them to acquire a Christian world and life view, develop Christian character, and become equipped and motivated to impact the world for Christ.

Psalm 145A I’ll Give You Praise, My God, O King (Duke Street)

I’ll give you praise, my God, O KingI will forever bless your nameI will extol you every dayAnd evermore your praise proclaim

Great is the Lord, deserving praiseHis greatness none can comprehendOne generation to the nextWill all your mighty works commend

I’ll contemplate your wondrous worksYour splendor and your glory greatMen will declare your awesome actsYour pow’r and greatness I’ll relate

Calling to mind your goodness greatIts fame they eagerly expressAnd they sing praises joyfullyTelling of all your righteousness

God Convicts, Forgives, and Restores

Scripture Reading Genesis 37:1-11; Romans 5:1-5

Silent Prayer of Confession

Corporate Prayer of ConfessionAlmighty God, we acknowledge and confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed. We have not loved you with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength; we have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. Please deepen within us a sorrow for the wrong we have done, and the good we have left undone. We confess that we are unrighteous and unworthy to be called your people, prone to wander from your ways. We confess our transgressions of pride, anger, impatience, greed, and the many sins that grieve your heart. But God, for the honor of your name, we plead your mercy! You are faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Would you work in us that which is pleasing in your sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon Hebrews 9:13-14For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Hymn Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken (Lyte/Moore)

Jesus, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow thee

Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall bePerish every fond ambition, All I’ve sought or hoped or knownYet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own

Let the world despise and leave me, They have left my Savior, tooHuman hearts and looks deceive me; Thou art not, like them, untrueO while thou dost smile upon me, God of wisdom, love, and mightFoes may hate and friends disown me, Show thy face and all is bright

Man may trouble and distress me, ’Twill but drive me to thy breastLife with trials hard may press me; Heaven will bring me sweeter restOh, ’tis not in grief to harm me, While thy love is left to meOh, ’twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy unmixed with thee

Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith, and winged by prayerHeaven’s eternal days before thee, God’s own hand shall guide us thereSoon shall close thy earthly mission, Soon shall pass thy pilgrim daysHope shall change to glad fruition, Faith to sight, and prayer to praise

The Heidelberg Catechism Q. 27Leader: What do you mean by the providence of God?People: The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all creatures, so that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, indeed, all things come to us, not by chance, but by his fatherly hand.

Prayer of Intercession

Tithes & Offerings Malachi 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Offertory

Family Worship Guide

Scripture Readings

Old Testament: Psalm 7–8

New Testament: Acts 10

Bible Memory: Genesis 37:4When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

Children’s Catechism Q. 43–44 Q. 43. Can anyone be saved through the covenant of life?A. No. No one can be saved through the covenant of life.Q. 44. Why can’t anyone be saved through the covenant of life?A. Because all have broken it and are condemned by it.

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q. 107Q. 107. What does the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?A. The conclusion of the Lord's prayer, which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever, Amen, teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only, and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power and glory to him. And in testimony of our desire, and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen.

Hymn/Song of the Month: “Marvelous Grace of Our Loving Lord” Trinity Hymnal, #465

Evening WorshipWalking as Disciples in Faith, Hope, and Love  

Exposition of 1 & 2 Thessalonians “Characteristics of a Gospel Church (part 2)”

Call to Worship & Invocation

Hymn My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less #521

Hymn Reformation Song

Prayer of Intercession

Sermon from God’s Word 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22 Rev. Nick Batzig

Hymn O for a Closer Walk with God

Benediction Numbers 6:24-26 The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

God Instructs Us Through His Word

Sermon from God’s Word Dr. Brian Cosby

Genesis: Foundations for a Christian Worldview"Joseph Sold by His Brothers”

Genesis 37

Hymn O Great God (Kauflin)

O great God of highest heavenOccupy my lowly heartOwn it all and reign supremeConquer every rebel powerLet no vice or sin remainThat resists your holy warYou have loved and purchased meMake me yours forevermore

I was blinded by my sinHad no ears to hear your voiceDid not know your love withinHad no taste for heaven’s joysThen your Spirit gave me lifeOpened up your word to meThrough the gospel of your SonGave me endless hope and peace

Help me now to live a lifeThat’s dependent on your graceKeep my heart and guard my soulFrom the evils that I faceYou are worthy to be praisedWith my every thought and deedO great God of highest heavenGlorify your name through me

Benediction Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Postlude

Sermon NotesGenesis: Foundations for a Christian Worldview

"Joseph Sold by His Brothers”

Genesis 37

Announcements

1. The Deacon of the month for March is Kenny Galvani.

2. Children’s Sunday school lesson this week: Wisdom for God’s People (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs). Wisdom is fearing the lord and obeying his Word. Memory: James 1:5.

3. The Adult Choir will rehearse this afternoon at 5pm. We’ll have our regular evening

worship at 6pm.

4. Wayside Missions Support Information: Wayside raises missionary support through the "'Faith Promise" program. The Mission Committee developed and the Session approved the missionaries/organizations to be supported by Wayside. These are displayed on the bulletin board in the office hallway across from the pastor’s office. (We will no longer publish the names and locations of the missionaries due to the sensitive nature and locations of their work.) Wayside members can support the approved missionaries/organizations by (1) giving designated gifts - these gifts will be disbursed to the missionary/ organization designated by the giver (only missionaries/organizations approved by the Session); or (2) giving to the Mission Fund - these gifts will be disbursed to all missionaries/organizations approved by the Session. NOTE: Wayside missionaries/organizations do not receive funds from the Wayside General Budget.

5. If you have been collecting spare change in the baby bottles for Choices, please bring the bottles to the church by Monday, March 23. You can leave them in the copy room and they will be taken to Choices the following week. Thank you!

6. Ladies of Wayside, please join us for our Women's Bible Study on the first Monday of every month. This year, we are traveling through the book of Hebrews using the study guide Better by Jen Wilkin. These books are available for your purchase on our church book table for $13. Our next study evening will be Monday, April 6 at 6:30 pm. On that night, we will be discussing Hebrews 3-4. Please consider joining us on that night for fellowship, prayer, discussion, and desserts. If you have any questions, please contact Jodi at: 214.404.5012.

7. Early registration for Wayside Preschool has begun! For more information and an application, please see the bulletin board outside the preschool rooms.