“Let us never doubt for a moment, that the preaching of Christ crucified–the old story of His blood, and righteousness, and substitution–is enough for all the spiritual necessities of all mankind. It is not worn out. It is not obsolete. It has not lost its power. We need nothing new–nothing more broad and kind–nothing more intellectual–nothing more effectual. We need nothing but the true bread of life,…
Call to Worship September 11 2016
“Hebrews 12:28-29 … for our God is a consuming fire: These words are taken from Deuteronomy 4:24 which warns Israel that their covenant relationship with God (‘our God’) would not protect them from the devouring fire of divine judgment if they incurred His jealousy by lapsing into the sin of idolatry. An abiding consciousness of the ineffable holiness of God offers the best deterrent against the commission…
Call to Worship September 4 2016
“It is a painful fact, that there are never lacking professing Christians who try to explain away our Lord’s miracles. They endeavor to account for them by natural causes, and to show that they were not worked by any extraordinary power. Of all miracles, there are none which they assault so strenuously as the casting out of devils…Let us beware of a skeptical and incredulous spirit in…
Call to Worship – August 28 2016
“Let us take care that our own religion is real, genuine and true. The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians, is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a scanty round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of…
Call To Worship August 21 2016
“Let us strive to know more and more, every year we live, our need of a mediator between ourselves and God. Let us seek more and more to realize that without a mediator our thoughts of God can never be comfortable, and the more clearly we see God the more uncomfortable we must feel. Above all, let us be thankful that we have in Jesus the very…
Call To Worship August 7 2016
John 5:1-18 “We are taught, for one thing, in this passage, what misery sin has brought into the world. We read of a man who had been ill for no less than thirty-eight years! For thirty-eight weary summers and winters he had endured pain and infirmity. He had seen others healed at the waters of Bethesda, and going to their homes rejoicing. But for him there had…
Call To Worship July 31 2016
How expectant and aware are we of the Lord’s work? Martin Lloyd Jones once admonished his hearers concerning their expectations in coming to worship the Lord. Jesus recognized the over expectancy of signs and wonders and admonished his hearers for lack of awareness of the constancy of God’s work every day. So, we come to worship this day expecting the one and only God to reveal truth,…
Call To Worship July 17 2016
“In meaning as well as in time, the miracles lie between the incarnation and the ascension. They look backward to the one event and forward to the other.” Westcott “That all our Lord’s miracles were deeply significant, I do not deny. That all were intended to convey deep spiritual lessons, I make no question. All I maintain is that they require reverent and delicate handling, and that…
Call To Worship July 10 2016
We worship the Triune God of miracles: “In calling them miracles we do not mean that they are contradictions or outrages; we mean that, left to her own resources, she (nature) could never produce them.’ C.S. Lewis “God hath a right to dispense with the ordinary laws of nature; he hath a power to alter their course by an arrest of miracles, and make them come short,…
Call To Worship July 3 2016
We worship our God who gave His commands for the good of His people. The commands of God are perfect. They teach the people of God in every historic covenant to obey God and the New Covenant is no different than any other covenant. The Israelites were instructed to teach and discuss these commandments with the children through all of life. Moses saw God give the Moral…