Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “Because I live, you also will live.” John 14:19b The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Psalm 98:1-3 * Prayer of Invocation Our Response to the Lord’s Call * Hymn of Praise #164 “O for a Thousand Tongues to …
Weekly Devotion from Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”—Romans 3:31. HEN the believer is adopted into the Lord’s family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. Believer, you are God’s child; it is your first duty to …
Order of Worship for 1/29/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be lifted up above the hills.” Isaiah 2:2 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to …
Order of Worship for 1/22/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Psalm …
Weekly devotion from Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening”
“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.” Hebrews 4:9 How different will be the state of the believer in heaven from what it is here! Here he is born to toil and suffer weariness, but in the land of the immortal, fatigue is never known. Anxious to serve his Master, he finds his strength unequal to his …
Order of Worship for 1/15/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” Revelation 7:12 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Psalm 89:1 * Prayer of Invocation Our Response to …
Book Review of Michael Haykin’s “Rediscovering the Church Fathers”
Dr. Michael Haykin begins his book, Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church, with this troubling statement: “The truth of the matter is that far too many modern-day evangelicals are either ignorant of or quite uncomfortable with the church fathers” (13). Haykin’s book is an effort to remedy that problem. In this work, …
Weekly Devotion from Spurgeon’s ‘Morning and Evening’
“These have no root.”—Luke 8:13. Y soul, examine thyself this morning by the light of this text. Thou hast received the word with joy; thy feelings have been stirred and a lively impression has been made; but, remember, that to receive the word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into thy very soul is quite another; …
Weekly Devotion from Spurgeon
“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”—2 Peter 3:18. ROW in grace”—not in one grace only, but in all grace. Grow in that root-grace, faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fulness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also in love. Ask that your love may become extended, more …
Order of Worship for 1/8/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “… as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.” Ephesians 5:25-26 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Isaiah 6:1-3 * Prayer …