Sunday, February 15, 2026 -- 10:30am Worship Service
In celebration of Black History Month, this week’s cover art is by Augustin Kolawole Olayinka, “The Transfiguration of Jesus” (1997).
Welcome to Maxwell Street! We hope you will consider wearing a nametag so that we might get to know one another better. They can be found in the lobbies outside the sanctuary. You can find more helpful information inside this bulletin.
INTROIT 411 - God Is Here Today (sing twice)
God is here today;
as certain as the air I breathe,
as certain as the morning sun that rises,
as certain when I sing you’ll hear my song.
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE - Prelude in A Minor, Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
CALL TO WORSHIP
We come to worship God, We come, bringing our stories, our lives, and our whole selves.
All are welcome
We come with our faith and our doubts, With our hope and our fears.
All are welcome
We come as we are, invited by God who will never turn us away.
All are welcome
Let us worship God together.
+ Hymn 509 - All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly
+ CONFESSION & PARDON
God of Mercy we confess that we have sinned against You in our thinking, in our speaking, in our action an inaction word, and deed. We have not loved ourselves, our neighbours or You with our whole heart and mind and strength. In Your mercy forgive what we have been, and redirect what we shall be, so that we may live fully in Your will and walk humbly in Your ways, to the glory of Your holy name. Through Christ, our Lord. Hear now our silent prayers of confession…
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581, (Gloria Patri)
PASSING OF THE PEACE
CHILDREN'S MESSAGE
ANTHEM - Ain’-A That Good News, William Dawson, Chancel Choir
PRAYER FOR OPENNESS
Gracious God, our way in the wilderness, guide us, by your Word, through these forty days, and minister
to us with your Holy Spirit, so that we may reformed, restored, and renewed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING - Romans 5.12-19 NT pg 156 (NRSVUE)
PSALM 32 -How Blest Are Those
SCRIPTURE READING - Matthew 4.1-11 NT pg 3
SERMON - “Tested", Rev. Matt Falco
STATEMENT OF FAITH - FromThe Barmen Declaration (1934- Germany), Statement 2
“Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” (I Cor. 1.30)
- As Jesus Christ is God’s assurance of the forgiveness of all our sins, so in the same way and with
the same seriousness is he also God’s mighty claim upon our whole life. Through him befalls us a joyful
deliverance from the godless fetters of this world for a free, grateful service to his creatures.
- We reject the false doctrine, as though there were areas of our life in which we would not belong to
Jesus Christ, but to other lords—areas in which we would not need justification and sanctification
through him.
+ HYMN 783 - When We Are Tested
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S (Debts & Debtors)
Offering
• Offertory - Have Thine Own Way, Lord - Stebbins
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ
the Word in flesh born low; Praise Holy Spirit evermore;
One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 41 - O Worship the King, All Glorious Above
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
Benediction Response - Hymn 702, Christ Be Beside Me
1 Christ be beside me;
Christ be before me;
Christ be behind me,
King of my heart.
Christ be within me;
Christ be below me;
Christ be above me,
never to part.
2 Christ on my right hand,
Christ on my left hand,
Christ all around me,
shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping,
Christ in my sitting,
Christ in my rising,
Light of my life.
POSTLUDE - Toccata in D Minor, Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667)
Welcome to Maxwell Street! We hope you will consider wearing a nametag so that we might get to know one another better. They can be found in the lobbies outside the sanctuary. You can find more helpful information inside this bulletin.
INTROIT 411 - God Is Here Today (sing twice)
God is here today;
as certain as the air I breathe,
as certain as the morning sun that rises,
as certain when I sing you’ll hear my song.
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE - Prelude in A Minor, Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
CALL TO WORSHIP
We come to worship God, We come, bringing our stories, our lives, and our whole selves.
All are welcome
We come with our faith and our doubts, With our hope and our fears.
All are welcome
We come as we are, invited by God who will never turn us away.
All are welcome
Let us worship God together.
+ Hymn 509 - All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly
+ CONFESSION & PARDON
God of Mercy we confess that we have sinned against You in our thinking, in our speaking, in our action an inaction word, and deed. We have not loved ourselves, our neighbours or You with our whole heart and mind and strength. In Your mercy forgive what we have been, and redirect what we shall be, so that we may live fully in Your will and walk humbly in Your ways, to the glory of Your holy name. Through Christ, our Lord. Hear now our silent prayers of confession…
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581, (Gloria Patri)
PASSING OF THE PEACE
CHILDREN'S MESSAGE
ANTHEM - Ain’-A That Good News, William Dawson, Chancel Choir
PRAYER FOR OPENNESS
Gracious God, our way in the wilderness, guide us, by your Word, through these forty days, and minister
to us with your Holy Spirit, so that we may reformed, restored, and renewed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING - Romans 5.12-19 NT pg 156 (NRSVUE)
PSALM 32 -How Blest Are Those
SCRIPTURE READING - Matthew 4.1-11 NT pg 3
SERMON - “Tested", Rev. Matt Falco
STATEMENT OF FAITH - FromThe Barmen Declaration (1934- Germany), Statement 2
“Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” (I Cor. 1.30)
- As Jesus Christ is God’s assurance of the forgiveness of all our sins, so in the same way and with
the same seriousness is he also God’s mighty claim upon our whole life. Through him befalls us a joyful
deliverance from the godless fetters of this world for a free, grateful service to his creatures.
- We reject the false doctrine, as though there were areas of our life in which we would not belong to
Jesus Christ, but to other lords—areas in which we would not need justification and sanctification
through him.
+ HYMN 783 - When We Are Tested
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S (Debts & Debtors)
Offering
• Offertory - Have Thine Own Way, Lord - Stebbins
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ
the Word in flesh born low; Praise Holy Spirit evermore;
One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 41 - O Worship the King, All Glorious Above
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
Benediction Response - Hymn 702, Christ Be Beside Me
1 Christ be beside me;
Christ be before me;
Christ be behind me,
King of my heart.
Christ be within me;
Christ be below me;
Christ be above me,
never to part.
2 Christ on my right hand,
Christ on my left hand,
Christ all around me,
shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping,
Christ in my sitting,
Christ in my rising,
Light of my life.
POSTLUDE - Toccata in D Minor, Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667)