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Morning Prayer
Calvin Seminary Chapel
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Prelude

Celebrating the Forgiveness We Have Received from God

Call to Worship

*Song of Approach: “Just as I Am, without One Plea” Psalter Hymnal 263

*Assurance of Pardon: Isaiah 55:5-9

*Litany – Images of Forgiveness

One: Our sin is a heavy burden, the weight of it too much to carry.
All: But you, O God, will again have compassion on us: you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19, NIV)

One: Our sins cling to us and adorn us as with filthy rags.
All: But God says, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you.” (Zech. 3:4, NIV)

One: Our sin is too real to hide and too deep to undo.
All: But God says, “I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist.” (Isa. 44:22, NIV)

One: Our sins have become for us a consuming fire of judgment.
All: But God replies, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.” (Isa. 43:25, NIV)

Acknowledging God's Call to Be Forgiving People

Scripture Reading : Matthew 18:21-35

Reading from the Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 51, Q & A 126

Sermon: Forgiveness—Unearned But Not Unnoticed
Leonard Kuyvenhoven

The Lord's Prayer

*Hymn: “Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive,” Psalter Hymnal 266
Rosamond Herklots wrote these words in 1966 after digging out weeds in her garden and thinking how bitterness, hatred, and resentment are like poisonous weeds growing in the Christian garden of life. (From Psalter Hymnal Handbook; used by permission)

*Blessing

*Passing of the Peace

Postlude

Liturgist – Ruth Boven
Preacher – Leonard Kuyvenhoven
Organist – Annetta Vander Lugt