We worship our God who redeemed His people. The glorious works of God throughout the ages have been vital, vast, and virtuous, but the reality of the fall of man has vacuously promoted vainglory. Man rebelliously sinned against God to glory in self as an affront to the Creator/creature distinction. God knowing this reality before time, purposed to redeem a people to Himself for His glory. In…
Call to Worship – February 15 2015
We give praise to our glorious God for His glorious grace. Our Father chose us in His Son Jesus before time to be holy before Him. Also, He predestined His people to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ. We, as believers, are granted the spirit of adoption and sealed with the Holy Spirit as a pledge of our inheritance. Truly our God is great and greatly to…
Call to Worship – February 8 2015
We worship our God the Father of His people. In the Old Testament the Israelites were called the people of God. They were recognized as His children. They sang songs of praise to God for His sovereign ways and mighty works (Psalm 138). They praised Him whose lovingkindness is everlasting (Psalm 136). Yet, in the trials and struggles of life induced by sin and the sinful nature,…
Call To Worship, February 1st 2015
We worship God our Father who adopted us as His children. The heavenly Father conferred upon us the status of adoption through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit applies the spirit of adoption to us. This Trinitarian work gives us good reason to rejoice; not only are we justified and regenerated, but we are predestined to become the sons and daughters of the Father as fellow heirs…
Call to Worship, January 25 2015
We worship our God, the one and only sovereign King. God oversees His creation with His foreordaining power and with the same He sustains all existence. God is King over all the earth not by democracy, but by His very being. His being is all powerful and He does not need a vote of confidence. So, He predestined all things according to His most free and holy…
Call to Worship, January 18 2015
We worship our God who knows neither accident nor fate. He made all things, including us, with His great skill. He is intimately acquainted with all our ways. We cannot flee from Him because He is everywhere in simultaneous perfection. He knows our next word before we speak it, where we will go before we make our plans, and our trials before they hit us. God not…
Call to Worship January 11, 2015
Pastor Silas Mercer wrote on behalf of the Phillips Mill Church in Wilkes county Georgia, in 1787, “We are fully convinced that Salvation is all of grace, or all of works; for they cannot be mixed in this business; and if it be by grace, then the doctrine of the Election, or God’s love to his people, is the very foundation of our salvation; and is that…
Call to Worship – January 4. 2015
As we enter a new year we praise our God, who helped us in years past, and stands as our hope for years to come. When people and culture are against us, the one God who chose us, saves us and keeps us will remain the same. God never changes even in His electing grace. His election of many discloses His sovereignty and mighty power over mankind….
Call to Worship – December 14 2014
We worship the God who elected many to salvation by His grace and for His glory. The word election, in the biblical/theological sense has fallen on hard times. No word seems to foster more frustration, redefinition and denial among Christians. B.B. Warfield wrote, “It is sad to witness the death of any worthy thing, —even of a worthy word. And worthy words do die, like any other…
Call to Worship – December 7, 2014
We come to worship the God of grace. He lavished His grace upon his people through the kind intention of His will from eternity past. He graciously sent His Son, with honor, blessing and all authority, to redeem the Israel of God. Jesus, being one with the Father, rules the world in truth and grace. In loving-kindness God sealed us in His Son by the work of…