Our Worship

Live Services

  •     The Brotherhood of Suffering and Eternal Glory - Andrew Farr, AM May 28, 2023
    • The Morming Worship Service (10:30 AM)
    • *Hymn - Lift High the Cross - TPH 287
    • Confession of Sin
    • Almighty and merciful Father, you pour out your benefits upon us - forgive the unthankfulness with which we have requited your goodness. We have remained before you with hearts unkindled with love of your gentle and enduring goodness. Turn us, and so shall we be turned. Make us with our whole heart to hunger and thirst after you, and with all our longing desire you.
    • Amen.
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    • Assurance of Pardon - Romans 8:28-30 - Pg 944
    • Reading of the Law - The Ten Commandments - TPH 174
    • Old Testament Reading - Zechariah 3 - Pg 794
    • Psalm - Lord, to You I Lift My Soul - 25B
    • New Testament Reading - 1 Peter 5:8-14 - Pg 1017
    • Sermon - The Brotherhood of Suffering and Eternal Glory
    • *Hymn - Crown Him with Many Crowns - TPH 380
    • *Hymn - We Give Thee But Thine Own - TPH 185
    • *Hymn - Amazing Grace! - TPH 433
    • *Amen - Threefold Amen - TPH 575
  •     The Supernatural Intervention of God’s Grace - Andrew Farr, PM May 28, 2023
    • The Evening Worship Service (6:00 PM)
    • *Hymn - All Praise to Christ - TPH 289
    • Psalm - When Jacob’s House from Egypt Came 114
    • Scripture Reading - Psalm 114 - Pg 510
    • Sermon - The Supernatural Intervention of God’s Grace
    • *Hymn - The People that in Darkness Sat - TPH 269
    • *Hymn - Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus! - TPH 285
    • *Doxology - All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night (1&6) - TPH 158

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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