1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 1. Of the Holy Scriptures 1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience. 1 Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of…
Call to Worship January 25, 2026
Psalm 104:30 Commentary by Matthew Poole, “30 You send forth your spirit, they are created: and you renew the face of the earth. Thy spirit; either, 1. That spirit by which they live, which is called the spirit of a beast, Eccles. 3:21, which is called their breath or spirit, (for the word is the same there and here,) ver. 29, and here may be called God’s spirit, because it was given and…
Call to Worship January 18, 2026
Psalm 45 “The Old Testament does ascribe deity to the coming messianic figure, a matter too often downplayed. In Isaiah 9:6 he is called ‘mighty God.’ He is not only the shoot from Jesse but the ‘root of Jesse’ (Isa. 11:1, 10). Often overlooked, I think, is Isaiah 50:10, where ‘obeying the voice of his [Yahweh’s] servant’ is on a level with ‘fearing Yahweh,’ and hence suggestive of the deity of…
Call to Worship January 11, 2026
Number 12 “Verses 4–9 Moses did not resent the injury done him, nor complain of it to God, nor make any appeal to him; but God resented it. He hears all we say in our passion, and is a swift witness of our hasty speeches, which is a reason why we should resolutely bridle our tongues, that we speak not ill of others, and why we should…
Call to Worship January 4, 2026
Psalm 90:1-4 “1 The first comfort of the Lord’s people, against the miseries of this life is from the Lord’s kindness to his people in all ages. Whence learn, 1. There is no dealing with God in prayer, except we lay hold on the offer of God’s kindness, according to the covenant of grace, and look upon God as gracious to us in Christ. Therefore here and elsewhere,…
Call to Worship December 28, 2025
Mathew 1:18–25 “The mystery of Christ’s incarnation is to be adored, not pried into. If we know not the way of the Spirit in the formation of common persons, nor how the bones are formed in the womb of any one that is with child (Eccles. 11:5), much less do we know how the blessed Jesus was formed in the womb of the blessed virgin. When David admires how he himself was made in…
Call to Worship December 14, 2025
Isaiah 7:10-16 “But the Immanuel sign contained a promise as well as a threat. For Isaiah and his followers it meant the promise of God’s protecting presence and the eventual fulfilment of God’s good purposes for his people. The preservation of the remnant in Isaiah’s day was part of a process which led finally to the coming of Jesus, the perfectly faithful and righteous one, in whom…
Call to Worship December 7, 2025
“A great light shines (9:2–7) This oracle of salvation is clearly the climax of the whole movement from darkness to light in 8:1–9:7. At the same time it represents the final reversal of the situation in chapter 7 where the Davidic house, represented by Ahaz, was rejected. The logical structure is signalled by the threefold ‘for’ of verses 4, 5 and 6 (rsv). The rejoicing of verse 3 is occasioned by…
Call to Worship November 30, 2025
Romans 7:1–6 “Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (v. 14), that we are not under the law; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (v. 6): We are delivered from the law. What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in…
Call to Worship November 23, 2025
Romans 6 “The apostle having at large asserted, opened, and proved, the great doctrine of justification by faith, for fear lest any should suck poison out of that sweet flower, and turn that grace of God into wantonness and licentiousness, he, with a like zeal, copiousness of expression, and cogency of argument, presses the absolute necessity of sanctification and a holy life, as the inseparable fruit and…