Lamentations 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how poor we are, but a true …
Order of Worship for 10/15/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.” Isaiah 57:15 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to …
Weekly Devotion from Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening”
“If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” 1 John 2:1 “If any man sin, we have an advocate.” Yes, though we sin, we have him still. John does not say, “If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate,” but “we have an advocate,” sinners though we are. All the sin that …
Order of Worship for 10/8/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.” Zechariah 13:1 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Psalm 95:6-7 * Prayer of Invocation …
Weekly Devotion from Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening”
Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord! He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that …
Order of Worship for 10/1/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.’” Matthew 1:21 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Psalm 95:1-3 * Prayer of Invocation Our Response to the …
Weekly Devotion from Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening”
“The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.” Galatians 5:1 This “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter—the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, “When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee.” You are free to that. Here is another: “The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from …
Order of Worship for 9/24/17
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “Because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.’” 1 Thessalonians 1:5 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Isaiah 60:1-2 * Prayer of Invocation Our …
Weekly Devotion from Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening”
“I will sing of mercy and judgment.” Psalm 101:1 Faith triumphs in trial. When reason is thrust into the inner prison, with her feet made fast in the stocks, faith makes the dungeon walls ring with her merry notes as she cries, “I will sing of mercy and of judgment. Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.” Faith pulls the …
Order of Worship for 9/17/2017
Welcome and Announcements Scripture Meditation “For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand.’” Isaiah 46:9-10 The Lord Calls Us to Worship * Salutation 1 Corinthians 1:3 * Call to Worship Isaiah …