Our Worship

Live Services

(Bullet points are links)

Good Friday Service (7:00 PM) First OPC, Grace URC, Peace URC
Opening (Rev. Chris Coleman)
Call to Worship 1 Corinthians 15:50-57
Psalm 103C Come My Soul, and Bless the Lord (1-4)
Hymn 353 Lamb, Precious Lamb
Hymn 337 Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended
Ministry of the Word (Rev. Josh Feil)
Old Testament Reading Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Psalm 22A My God, My God, O Why Have You Forsaken Me? (1-4)
New Testament Reading Philippians 2:1-10
Sermon He Was Crushed for Our Iniquities
The Lord’s Prayer
Hymn 338 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Response to the Word (Rev. Chris Coleman)
Benevolence Offering Portland Rescue Mission
Hymn 567 Doxology
The Apostles’ Creed
Hymn 572 Gloria Patri
The Lord’s Supper
Hymn 330 Who Is This, So Weak and Helpless
Hymn 575 Threefold Amen
The Morning Worship Service (10:30 AM) Rev Alan Carter
Call to Worship 1 Corinthians 15:50-57
Hymn TPH 360 Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Hymn TPH 355 Welcome, Happy Morning
Old Testament Reading Pg 586 Isaiah 25:6-9
Psalm 22B All You that Fear Jehovah’s Name
New Testament Reading Pg 835 Matthew 28:1-20
Sermon Miracles, Faith, and Alternate Explanations
Hymn TPH 366 The Strife is O’er, the Battle Done
Hymn TH 729 All Things are Thine (v 1)
Hymn TPH 357 The Day of Resurrection!
Hymn TPH 575 Threefold Amen
The Evening Worship Service (6:00 PM) Rev Alan Carter
Call to Worship 1 Peter 1:3ff
Hymn TPH 369 Worship Christ, the Risen King
Hymn TPH 356 Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
Scripture Reading Pg 955 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Sermon Glorify God in your Body (Jesus Glorified Him in His!)
Hymn TPH 538 Take My Life, and Let It Be
Hymn TPH 185 We Give Thee But Thine Own
Hymn TPH 158 All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night (1,6)

Past Services

God himself initiates, perfects and receives the worship that the Church offers to him.

Through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit, God our Father calls us to himself, speaking to us through his Word which he confirms by his sacraments, and granting us the gifts of faith, repentance and love by which we may respond appropriately. Worship is a gift from God, a fruit of our salvation, a foretaste of heaven, the primary means through which God instructs his people in the truth as well as a culmination of the knowledge of God (cf. Ps 27:4; 63:1-2; 73:17; 84:10).

Therefore, we draw near to God in a manner appropriate to how God has drawn near to make of us a people for his name: our worship is Trinitarian, scriptural, responsive, reverent and full of joy.

Trinitarian

God made himself known to us through his Son Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit. There is no other way to come to the Father. Therefore, we worship the Father together with the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God and Savior forever.

Scriptural

The worship of the triune God is a participation in God's revelation concerning himself. Worship is an expression of theological conviction, not a product of imagination or a matter of taste. The Bible, given through holy men by God's Spirit, brings to our remembrance the acts of God our Father and his will for us in our Lord Christ Jesus. The word of God is a living and transforming power, and is intended by God to pervade the thoughts and to direct the desires of his people, to equip us for all of life. These holy scriptures fill our sermons, our prayers and our songs.

Responsive

Worship is a communion of the triune God with his people. When his servants preach to his people, when they administer the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper, it is God's word they are to speak, and they perform the visible aspect of God's invisible actions. When the people respond with thankful singing, earnest prayer, and cheerful giving, it is God working in them both to will and to do these things because it pleases him to draw us to himself.

Reverent and Joyful

Because God is holy we approach him in repentance, with reverence and awe. Our services are orderly, oriented toward God, and acknowledge that we are brought together in worship by the Holy Spirit. The joy that belongs to knowing this Lord and Savior is both solemn and very full indeed.

We also offer an excellent and safe nursery to assist families.

First Orthodox Presbyterian Church — Portland, Oregon
Regular Schedule: Address:

Sunday School:   9:30am
Sunday Morning: 10:30 am
Sunday Evening: 6:00 pm

8245 NE Fremont Street
Portland, Oregon 97220

Phone: 503-253-0695
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