We worship our God who covenanted and ordered salvation before the foundation of the world. God made an intra-Trinitarian covenant, according to his preordained plan, to save those persons He chose for salvation by His Grace. He did not covenant or plan to save anyone, but the elect. He did not choose or promise to save every single individual who ever lived on the earth. If He did, then He has miserably failed. He promised to save His people who were predestined before time began. Yes, we are saddened for the many who do not believe and will suffer the…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
Call To Worship July 26 2015
We worship our God who covenanted and ordered salvation before the foundation of the world. God made an intra-Trinitarian covenant, according to his preordained plan, to save those persons He chose for salvation by His Grace. He did not covenant or plan to save anyone, but the elect. He did not choose or promise to save every single individual who ever lived on the earth. If He did then He has miserably failed. He promised to save His people who were predestined before time began. Yes, we are saddened for the many who do not believe and will suffer the…
Call to Worship July 19 2015
We worship our God who manifests His grace by making dead sinners into new creations. He displays His grace in the present, but the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness will be seen in the ages to come. The riches and kindness are in Christ Jesus. We have nothing to offer for grace, but God gave it freely to those He chose before time began. Even the grace bestowed on us negates our ability to boast because it is in Christ Jesus. It is Christ who took on flesh, lived perfectly according to God’s law, He alone shed His…
Call to Worship July 5 2015
We worship the God whose grace is beyond compare. While troubles gather all around us, and the world trusts in their own abilities and works, we trust the Lord our provider. He not only provides food, clothing, and shelter according to His plan, but He is the only being capable of providing perfect grace. His grace does not cooperate with our mindsets or works. Therefore, all of our boasting is excluded. How do we know of this grace? The word of God alone directs us toward the saving grace of God. The scripture tells us of the Father who sent…
Call To Worship June 28 2015
Mercy and grace abounding free, To sinners saved by God’s decree, No work of man may be their plea, But only Christ’s work stands for thee. For sinners saved by grace alone, Know their faith will not atone, The faith they have is a gift as well, And causes not their pride to swell. The sinner saved boasts in one thing: The Son of God who killed death’s sting. So turn away from self and pride, And only look to Christ to hide. Hide in Christ the firm foundation, And took on sin as perfect oblation, He died in sacrificial…
Call to Worship June 14 2015
We worship our God who is almighty and sovereign over salvation. God planned and ordained all things which have come to pass. He created all things and nothing escaped His almighty hand. The fall of man after creation did not go unpunished. Death spiritually became the plight of all mankind due to the sin of Adam and Eve. Yet God, being rich and merciful toward those whom He predestined, saved many who were dead in their sins and trespasses. So, we praise the Lord, the almighty, as He is our salvation. We did nothing for our salvation, but contribute sin…
Call To Worship June 7 2015
We worship our God who reigns in perfection. The holiness of God makes His commands faultless, therefore He is not capable of commanding anything that is not perfect. He commands our praise not because he needs it, but it is the right and holy mindset and action to fulfill. Yet our sin is so great it renders us incapable of obedience to God’s law and precepts. Man does not praise God rightly due to a sin sickness, but man is dead in sin. So, we come to worship and recognize our sin for the affront it is to the being…
Call to Worship May 31 2015
We worship the God of Grace. The human plight never changed after Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. These real historical people sinned against God and damned the whole of the human race. We sin today due to the nature we inherited from our first parents, Adam and Eve. Also, we sin due to the bondage of our “will” to the sin nature. So, who changed? Man changed from walking in goodness and innocence to walking in sin and shame. God has never changed. He is perfect and still hates sin. Although God does not change, He…
Call to Worship May 24 2015
We worship our God who raised the Lord Jesus from the grave and bestowed upon Him all dominion and honor. The Lord Jesus is one with the Father in deity, but His resurrection revealed the reality of His eternal authority with the Father (not that the authority was not already His from eternity past, but that the resurrection revealed it in time). Victory over death meant power beyond our understanding and authority above all authority on earth and in the heavens. Christ dominion was not simply a show of power, but was for the interest of the church. The church…
Call to Worship – May 17 2015
We worship our God who solved our greatest problem. Often we are concerned with the present moments and decisions of life and this is understandable. Yet, what Paul desires for the believers in Ephesus to understand goes beyond the present to the eternal. He prayed for them to see the eternal blessings of God’s calling, inheritance and surpassing greatness toward those who believe. Paul does not connect these eternal blessings to an activity in the present time of the believer’s life, but to the past. He revealed to them that all these blessings were brought about in Christ. He goes…