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…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
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…
Call To Worship January 10 2016
We worship our God who gave His Law to men. The law was given as a gracious guide for living, then Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command. The law continued as a teacher for man to know his sin and recognize it as an abomination against the one Holy and living God. The Law, formerly heard from the voice of God, was etched onto stone tablets by Moses and presented to the nation Israel. They continued for ages sinning against God and He continued to be faithful in love and discipline. Israel walked in the consequences of their sin, while…
Call To Worship January 3, 2016
We worship our God who sustained us through the last year. Many joys were experienced among us and the Lord planned those joys. Some sadness was evidenced in our midst and the Lord used each trial. All of these types of providence were for our good and ultimately for His glory. We now come to the start of a new year in the kind providence of the one true living God. Let us come to worship Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. There is no better place to begin a new year than worshipping with God’s people….
Call To Worship December 20 2015
Let us worship Jesus, the Son of God, who was born of a virgin and laid in a manger. He lived perfectly, died a sinner’s death, was buried, was resurrected and ascended to be with God the Father. All of these truths form the foundation for salvation and the proper functioning of God’s people in the New Covenant. Jesus Christ descended from on high as the incarnate Messiah to accomplish redemption. Also, His descent meant His ascent would usher in the New Covenant church. Local bodies, with Jew and Gentile together, worshipped God, led by officers given by Christ. Those…
Call To Worship – December 13 2015
We worship the one living and sovereign God. He has authority over all of creation and all will submit to Him, although they are submitting in providence whether they think so or not. So it is with Paul’s use of Psalm 68 as he points to the authority of Christ. God gave all authority to His Son in whom He is well pleased. Furthermore, Paul revealed Christ’s authority specifically in and through the church. The authority that Paul said Christ inaugurated is made manifest through officers. Some in the body of Christ were specifically called as apostles and prophets, whose…
Call To Worship – December 6 2015
Today we come to worship our triumphant God who reigns over all of the cosmos. His authority knows no bounds on the earth or in all the heavens. Paul magnified this truth from Psalm 68 and focused the metaphor on the work of the Messiah. God gave the Son and He descended to the earth in His incarnation. Jesus was born of the virgin Mary, lived sinless in His humanity and in accord with His perfect deity. He was tempted in every sense in His humanity, but He never sinned. His life led Him all the way to the cross…