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…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
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…
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 all God’s promises come to fulfilment.So Matthew was right to see the ultimate fulfilment of the Immanuel saying in Jesus Christ. What was death to Ahaz is life to us who believe. Two…
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 release from oppression (4), cessation of war (5), and the birth of an ideal ruler (6). The alternation of past and future tenses expresses the bold confidence with which the oracle is delivered….
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 newness of life? 1. We are delivered from the power of the law which curses and condemns us for the sin committed by us. The sentence of the law against us is vacated…
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 companion of justification; for, wherever Jesus Christ is made of God unto any soul righteousness, he is made of God unto that soul sanctification, 1 Co. 1:30. The water and the blood came…
November 16, 2025 Call to Worship
Psalm 48:8–14 “We have here the good use and improvement which the people of God are taught to make of his late glorious and gracious appearances for them against their enemies, that they might work for their good. I. Let our faith in the word of God be hereby confirmed. If we compare what God has done with what he has spoken, we shall find that, as we have heard, so have we seen (v. 8), and what we have seen obliges us to believe what we have heard. 1. ‘As we have heard done in former providences, in the days of old,…
Call to Worship, November 9, 2025
Psalm 91:1–8 “In these verses we have, I. A great truth laid down in general, That all those who live a life of communion with God are constantly safe under his protection, and may therefore preserve a holy serenity and security of mind at all times (v. 1): He that dwells, that sits down, in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty; he that by faith chooses God for his guardian shall find all that in him which he needs or can desire. Note, 1. It is the character of a true believer that he dwells…
Call to Worship November 2, 2025
Daniel 12:2-3 “III. He will work salvation for his people: ‘At that time thy people shall be delivered, delivered from the mischief and ruin designed them by Antiochus, even all those that were marked for preservation, that were written among the living,’ Isa. 4:3. When Christ comes into the world he will save his spiritual Israel from sin and hell, and will, at his second coming, complete their salvation, even the salvation of as many as were given him, as many as have their names in the book of life, Rev. 20:15. They were written there before the world, and will be found written there at…
Call to Worship October 26, 2025
Micah 4:1–7 “It is a very comfortable but with which this chapter begins, and very reviving to those who lay the interests of God’s church near their heart and are concerned for the welfare of it. When we sometimes see the corruptions of the church, especially of church-rulers, princes, priests, and prophets, seeking their own things and not the things of God, and when we soon after see the desolations of the church, Zion for their sakes ploughed as a field, we are ready to fear that it will one day perish between both, that the name of Israel shall be no more in remembrance;…