Worship Service: Luke 14:1-24- The Village Chapel
The Table Set by Grace Luke 14:1-24 The Village Chapel - 05/18/2025 What if true freedom begins with honesty? What if real joy grows in the soil of humility? What if grace doesn’t ask you to earn your seat—but simply invites you to come? There is a table—where you don’t have to be a somebody to get a seat, where the humble become the joyful, and where outcasts, outsiders and the overlooked are all invited in. Join Pastor Jim as he leads us into the house of a leader of the Pharisees in Luke 14 and Jesus opens our eyes to a banquet of scandalous welcome, where grace rewrites the guest list. This is The Table Set by Grace—and there’s room for you. Our Sunday morning worship services are comprised of verse-by-verse Bible teaching, Christ-centered worship and a time of congregational prayer. Gather with us on Sunday morning in the Chapel at 9 or 11 am, online at 10 am, or worship anytime at thevillagechapel.com. To learn more about The Village Chapel, contact us here: https://thevillagechapel.com/contact/ We consider it a privilege to carry the concerns of each other before the Father. Can we pray with or for you? https://thevillagechapel.com/prayer/ To support the ongoing mission of The Village Chapel go to https://thevillagechapel.com/give/. If you are a regular giver, thank you for your continued faithfulness and generosity! Songs: “King Forevermore (God The Uncreated One)“ by Aaron Keyes and Pete James “He Is Making All Things Right“ by Ben Shive, Bryan Fowler, Skye Peterson “Before The Throne Of God Above“ by Charitie Lees Bancroft and Vikki Cook “All My Boast Is in Jesus“ by Bryan Fowler, Matt Papa, Matthew Boswell, Keith Getty “Doxology” by Thomas Ken and Louis Bourgeois All songs are used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690 Call to Worship: Let us go to the House of the Lord Leader: I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord! People: Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God! Leader: Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; His understanding is beyond measure. People: Blessed is he whose hope is in the Lord, Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them. Leader: The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. All: Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! The beginning lines of this Call to Worship are taken from Psalm 122, one of the Psalms of Ascent, which Israelites would sing and recite as they traveled up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord. Confession:The Apostles’ Creed- He Was Crucified, Died, And Was Buried. Article II. “He Was Crucified, Died, And Was Buried” Leader: What did Jesus accomplish on the Cross? People: Jesus fulfilled the Scriptures by dying on the Cross as a sacrifice for sin in obedience to his Father. He thereby showed the depth of the love of God for his fallen creation, satisfying the justice of God on our behalf and breaking the power of sin, Satan, and death. Leader: What does Jesus’ death mean for you? People: Jesus bore my sins and died the death that I deserve, so that I could be saved from sin and eternal condemnation and reconciled to God. Leader: Why does the Creed make a point of saying that Jesus died? People: The Creed makes the point to emphasize that Jesus died a real, bodily death such as all people face because of our sins. Source: ACNA, Q. 64,65,66 Classic Prayer: Воnaventure, 1221-1274 Let us bow the knees of our heart in devotion before the throne of the eternal majesty. With tears and groans before the royal throne of the Trinity, let us pray without ceasing that God the Father, by his blessed Son, would grant us the grace of mental acuity in the Holy Spirit, that we may know what is the breadth and length and depth and height of His love. The Village Chapel exists to glorify God through the teaching of His word, through heartfelt worship, and by connecting people with opportunities to live lives of real significance, serving God and their neighbors as a local community of faith. To find more resources like these, follow us: Website: https://thevillagechapel.com YouTube: / @thevillagechapel Instagram: / tvcnashville Facebook: / tvcnashville X: / tvcnashville
