“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 all matters relating to the devil. No doubt there is much in the subject of Satanic possession which we do not understand, and cannot explain. But let us not therefore refuse to believe…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
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 the great spiritual warfare — its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests — of all this they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that…
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 Mediator whose help our souls require, and that through Him we may draw near to God with boldness, and cast fear away. Out of Christ, God is a consuming fire. In Christ, He…
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 been no healing. Friendless, helpless, and hopeless, he lay near the wonder-working waters, but derived no benefit from them. Year after year passed away, and left him still uncured. No relief or change…
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, convict of sin, comfort the struggling saint and strengthen his weakened child. Certainly we praise him if He works outside the laws of nature. Yet, we recognize He works everyday even in ordinary…
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 to rush into allegorical interpretations of them, is an unwise mode of handling the Scripture, and calculated to bring the Bible into contempt.” Ryle
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, or go beyond his ordinances established for them. He can dispense with the natural laws, and strain every string beyond it ordinary pitch.” Stephen Charnock “If miracles are impossible, then no amount of…
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 Law for all people and for all times. Also, Moses was given specific laws for the people of Israel. All of those laws were good for the people, but not all of them…
Call To Worship June 26 2016
We worship our God the LORD who is one! Israel traveled from Egypt, a land of pluralism (worship of many gods). Egyptians even considered their Pharaoh a god. The Israelites voyaged though other lands and tribes that worshipped several deities, but none of them was Jehovah. He is God eternal who does not change. He planned, created, and sustains all things. Therefore, our God is not one among many possible gods, but He is the one and only God, the LORD. Furthermore, God’s people are commanded to love him with every part of their being. The command is not purely…
Call To Worship June 19 2016
We worship our God who gave the Law to all mankind, and especially, for the good of His people. His commandments teach of His being, power and glory. His Testimonies usher the people into proper worship corporately and privately. God is to be worshipped with all of our being from the very core to the outer shell. He establishes these precepts for practice in daily life and explanation to the younger generation. The commandments, ultimately exist for the good of His chosen ones. So, the best situation for the people includes obedience to the Law and teaching it to their…