The Lord’s Supper by Thomas Watson “7. We must come with hearts fired with LOVE to Christ. The spouse said, ‘I am sick with love,’ Song of Solomon 2:5. Let us give Christ the wine of our love to drink—and weep that we can love Him no more. Would we have Christ’s exhilarating presence in the supper? Let us meet Him with strong endearments of affection. Basil compares love to a fragrant ointment. Christ delights to smell this perfume! The disciple who loved most—Christ put in His bosom. 8. We must come with HUMBLE hearts. We see Christ humbling Himself unto death. Will a…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
Call to Worship March 1, 2026
1689 London Baptist Confession Paragraph 1 God the good Creator of all things, in His infinite power and wisdom does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures and things,1 from the greatest even to the least,2 by His most wise and holy providence, to the end for the which they were created, according unto His infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will; to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, infinite goodness, and mercy.3 1 Heb. 1:3; Job 38:11; Isa. 46:10–11; Ps. 135:6, 2 Matt. 10:29–31, 3 Eph. 1; 11 Paragraph 2 Although in relation to the foreknowledge and…
Call to Worship February 22, 2026
1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 4 Paragraph 1 In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,1 for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal power,2 wisdom, and goodness, to create or make the world, and all things therein, whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days, and all very good.3 (1.) John 1:2–3; Heb. 1:2; Job 26:13, (2.) Rom. 1:20, (3.) Col. 1:16; Gen. 1:3 Paragraph 2 After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female,4 with reasonable and immortal souls,5 rendering them fit unto that life…
Call to Worship February 15, 2026
Chapter 19: Of the Law of God Paragraph 1 God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil;1 by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience;2 promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it.3 1 Gen. 1:27; Eccles. 7:29, 2 Rom. 10:5, 3 Gal. 3:10,12 Paragraph 2 The same law that was first written in the…
Call to Worship February 8, 2026
1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 3. Of God’s Decree 1. God hath decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably, all things, whatsoever comes to pass; 1 yet so as thereby is God neither the author of sin nor hath fellowship with any therein; 2 nor is violence offered to the will of the creature, nor yet is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established; 3 in which appears His wisdom in disposing all things, and power and faithfulness in accomplishing His decree. 4 1. Isaiah 46:10; Ephesians 1:11; Hebrews…
Call to Worship February 1, 2026
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 God and his will which is necessary unto salvation. 2 Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in divers manners to reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church; 3 and afterward…
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 preserved by him. Or rather, 2. Thy quickening spirit; for here seems to be an opposition between their spirit, ver. 29, and thy spirit here, and this latter is mentioned as the creating or productive cause…
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 the Servant. Without long discussion, David seems to call the Messiah ‘my Lord’ in Psalm 110:1. Then there is that mysterious grammatical switch in Zechariah 12:10, where Yahweh is speaking, ‘And they shall…
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 patiently stop our ears, and not take notice of it, if others speak ill of us. I heard not, for thou wilt hear, Ps. 38:13–15. The more silent we are in our own cause…
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, supplicants begin with renewed acts and expressions of saving faith. 2. God’s people in every place and age, are one incorporation with God’s people in all ages preceding and following, and may lay…
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 secret, and curiously wrought (Ps. 139:13–16), perhaps he speaks in the spirit of Christ’s incarnation. Some circumstances attending the birth of Christ we find here which are not in Luke, though it is more largely…