We worship our God in the first person of the Trinity as the heavenly Father. The term Father is important to us as humans and Christians. God as our Father indicates the sovereign authority and supreme power that God has over all things. God as our Father elucidates the necessity of provision and wisdom. God as our Father specifies the importance of accountability and caring guidance. The term “Father” left in human vernacular falls short of God in His perfections, but enables people to grasp an idea of God as a being. At the same time, we call Him our…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
Call to Worship April 10 2016
We worship our God who created and instituted the ordinance of marriage. God set the purposes, and parameters of marriage. The marital relationship exists between one man and one woman without exception. God knew the struggle of Adam as there was no suitable companion for him after creation. Therefore, God made woman from a part of Adam’s body and as a helpmate and companion. God never placed the woman over the man in the Garden, so subjection occurred in the created order. Furthermore, non-submission on Eve’s part and faulty headship in Adam’s life was the major catalyst in the fall…
Call To Worship March 27 2016
We worship our God who committed His Son to die for sinners. Yet, we must not forget that the Son, Jesus Christ, submitted to the will of the Father. Jesus walked perfectly without sin and was whipped, beaten, and crucified as the only sacrifice capable of saving sinners from the wrath of God. Also, His death was the only perfect way for God to accomplish the redemption of those He loved before the foundation of the world. The obedience of Christ to live and die for sinners illustrated numerous relational elements in Christianity. Paul specified these relational connections to the…
Call To Worship – March 20 2016
We worship our God who does all things in perfection. Troubles, trials and terrors seem to be around every corner. Sin permeates the recesses, and sometimes the forefront of our minds. Yet, the Triune God does all things in purity. When troubles assail us and sorrow, need or death are ours, what should we do? Paul told the Ephesians to walk with a truthful, tuneful, thankful and thoughtful spirit. Thankfulness is often challenging when times are at ease and more so when times are difficult. We may cry out to God when circumstances of difficulty arise, but we are to…
Call To Worship March 13 2016
“Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ’s sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing Christ’s active obedience unto the whole law, and passive obedience in his death for their whole and sole righteousness by faith, which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God….
Call To Worship March 3, 2016
We worship our God who made us new people, enabled to walk with a new spirit. Paul charged believers to walk worthy of the manner with which they have been called. He continued to unfold his thinking concerning a Christian’s walk, including the importance of wisdom according to the plain precepts of God and walking with the right spirit. Paul commands believers to live with a spirit of joyfulness, thankfulness and thoughtfulness. Drunkenness cannot deliver the delight God grants to His children and we often express that contentment in song. Thanksgiving permeates the minds of the elect. They have been…
Call To Worship February 28 2016
We worship our God to please Him alone. If we say our God is great and worthy of our praise, then we must worship Him according to His commands. If we do otherwise we propagate questions as to the holiness of His authority. Would a holy God give unnecessary or sinful statutes? No. So, how He orders us to worship is good and right. If we say our God is great and worthy of our life, then we must seek to walk in accordance with His commands. Would a holy God give unnecessary or sinful statutes? No. So, how He…
Call To Worship February 14 2016
We worship our one God who promised His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit not only regenerates dead sinners, but He sanctifies all those whom He made new in Christ. His sanctifying work is never separate from the word of God. The confession aids our understanding of the Bible’s teaching concerning sanctification. “They who are united to Christ, effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection,” the authors wrote, “are also farther sanctified, really and personally, through the same virtue, by His Word and Spirit dwelling…
Call To Worship February 7 2016
We worship the God who is rich in mercy despite our sin and failure. We must strive to walk in accordance with God’s law, but even as Christians we come from a long line of walking contradictions; Abraham lied, Moses responded in anger, David was an adulterer/murderer and Peter feared men, just to name a few. So, what is our hope? “But God, who is rich in mercy, according to His unchangeable purpose of election, does not wholly withdraw the Holy Spirit from His own people even in their grievous falls; nor does He allow them to proceed so far…
Call To Worship January 31 2016
We worship our God who made mankind in His image and made new creatures of His elect. Man fell from the state of innocence in the Garden of Eden and was cast out. Yet, God was not shocked. He foreordained the salvation of many from the human race and promised the Seed would crush the head of the serpent. The promised Seed came through the line of Adam, Noah, Abraham and David. His name is Jesus. He took on human flesh, lived a perfect life and died a sinner’s death. He crushed the desires of Satan and procured life for…