Order of Service:

* Prelude

* Hymn 211, vv. 1 - 3, Built on the Rock

* Reading: I Corinthians 1:18-25

* Devotion

* The Morning Prayer (in unison)

* Hymn 211, vv. 6 & 7, Here stands the font…

* Blessing

* Postlude

I Corinthians 1:18-25 For the message of the cross is foolishness to

those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power

of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And

bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." Where is the wise?

Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God

made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of

God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through

the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For

Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach

Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks

foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ

the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God

is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Timothy Schmeling (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark Degarmeaux (Organist)