ORDER OF WORSHIP MAY 3, 2026
8:30 | 9:45
Prelude
Blessed Assurance | Hymn #139
Welcome and Cultivate Liturgy
To God Be the Glory | Hymn #152
Life of the Congregation *
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
My Soul Longs for the Lord
JOHN 5:1–15
DR. RICHARD KANNWISCHER Senior Pastor
The Sacrament of the Lordʼs Supper
I Will Wait for You | Hymn #578
Invitation and Benediction
Postlude
* For 9:45 service only
11:15
Come Thou Fount
Welcome and Cultivate Liturgy
Life of the Congregation
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Praise the Lord Forever
JOHN 5:1–15
Senior Pastor
The Sacrament of the Lordʼs Supper
Lord I Need You
Invitation and Benediction
Postlude
Congregational songs are listed in bold italic.
John 5:1–15 (NIV)
He meets you in your limitations (vv. 1–5)
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
He exposes what you really want (v. 6)
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well? ”
He pushes past your excuses (vv. 7–9a)
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
He refuses to be controlled (vv. 9b–13)
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
He will not settle for just part of you (vv. 14–15)
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
We are delighted to welcome Andrew Dickinson to Peachtree Church as our new Pastor for Care and Grand Adults.
For fourteen years, Andrew served as the Associate Pastor for Pastoral Care and Mission at the First Presbyterian Church of Douglasville, GA. Andrew received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Master of Social Work from the University of London. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University College of Osteopathy in London, UK.
Andrew is passionate about people experiencing the love and goodness of Christ through the Church’s engagement in acts of compassion and service. Andrew is married to Sarah, and they have two daughters, Abby and Kaitlyn.
Please join us as we observe
The National Day of Prayer in Wilson Chapel on May 7th.
The chapel will be open from 9AM to 3PM for prayer for our nation.
Feel free to come and go as your schedule allows.
There will be a guide available to help direct your time of prayer.
For an easy Mother's Day, take the PEACHTREE EXPRESS
Pick up / Drop off: Powers Ferry Square
SUNDAY MAY 10 | 8:15am - 12:30pm
May 18 | June 15 | July 20 | August 17
Join us for our monthly gathering, called the Table, just for singles in their 30s and 40s. No pressure—just good food, shared stories, and a chance to build friendships.
6:30pm
The Treehouse Restaurant and Pub 7 Kings Cir NE, Atlanta, GA 30305
Scan the QR code for more information. No registration required.
Just as families keep in touch about joys and sorrows, our church family at Peachtree wants to do the same. During your prayers this week, we ask you to lift up these people to God.
Ansley Louise Eckert | 4/16
Christy and Keith Eckert
Archer Morris Wiles | 4/29
Savannah and Richard Wiles
Marge Anderson | Georgian Lakeside (Rehab)
Melissa La Bella | Piedmont Hospital
Elizabeth Munson | Home Hospice Care
Lynne Williams | 4/22
Grady Clinkscales | 4/27
Lynne Williams | 4/22
Wife of Milton Williams; Mother of Kelly Twardzik, Margot Maum and Wells Williams
Grady Clinkscales | 4/27
Husband of Peggy Clinkscales
The beautiful flowers in the Sanctuary this morning are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of
by their daughter, Judy Collier
