The Day's Scripture
Call to Repentance
Luke 14:34-35 (page 1623)
Call to Worship
Psalm 65 (page 900)
Old Testament Reading
Ezekiel 34:11-16 (page 1341)
New Testament Reading
Matthew 18:1-14 (page 1526)
Message
Are You Going Up the Sycamore,
Or Coming Down?
Luke 19:1-10 (page 1630)
The Day's Song
Opening Worship
I'm Forever Grateful, #173
Come Just As You Are, #481
First Hymn
At Calvary, #492
Prayer Hymn
Jesus, I Come, #491
Closing Hymn
Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy, #486
This hymn from the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion was written in 1759 by Joseph Hart. In his youth Joseph Hart was a confirmed enemy of the Christian faith and made a name for himself by writing The Unreasonableness of Religion, Being Remarks and Animadversions on the Rev. John Wesley’s Sermon on Romans 8:32. But in 1757 Hart experienced a dramatic conversion and became a powerful and popular preacher of the gospel he had formerly disdained. He is best remembered now for this hymn he wrote two years after his conversion, an invitation to the sinners whose company he had so recently kept and whose condition he knew so well.
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