We worship the true God who works all things unto His glory. Every form of matter, creature, happening and occurrence on the earth exists for the glory of God, including sin. Troubles will mount up against us in nature and by humanity. Sin and failures will amass in us and around us every day. Yet, one day, all of creation will be reconciled to God and a redeemed and adopted people will be gathered for eternity, but only through Christ. Jesus foretold the disciples of His purpose, but they did not fully understand. He told them not to be worried…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
Call to Worship March 8 2015
We worship the one God who commanded order even among a fallen generation. He lavished grace upon sinners by His purpose set before the beginning of time. His mystery of salvation was made known in all wisdom and insight through our Lord Jesus. The summation of all things are purposed and consummated in the person and work of the Lord Jesus by the kind intention of the Father’s will. Not one thing in heaven or in earth, including salvation, is outside of the purpose of God. As adopted children we have obtained an inheritance of eternal life in the Kingdom…
Call to Worship – March 1 2015
We worship, to the glory of the Father, our Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ. God our Rock and Fortress sent His beloved Son Jesus as the Rock of Ages. He shed His blood as the necessary and perfect sacrifice to pay the wage due for sin. His work of perfectly living the Law of God and dying a sinner’s death fixed the very problem of the ransom due for the people of God. Our works accomplish nothing. His works accomplish exactly what God designed, true salvation. Salvation accomplished, then applied by the Holy Spirit. Redemption accomplished and applied affords actual…
Call to Worship February 22 2015
We worship our God who redeemed His people. The glorious works of God throughout the ages have been vital, vast, and virtuous, but the reality of the fall of man has vacuously promoted vainglory. Man rebelliously sinned against God to glory in self as an affront to the Creator/creature distinction. God knowing this reality before time, purposed to redeem a people to Himself for His glory. In time, God propagated his plan and procured His people. God’s plan included sending His Son, the Lord Jesus, to pay the price for sin as ransom for His people. The death of Christ…
Call to Worship – February 15 2015
We give praise to our glorious God for His glorious grace. Our Father chose us in His Son Jesus before time to be holy before Him. Also, He predestined His people to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ. We, as believers, are granted the spirit of adoption and sealed with the Holy Spirit as a pledge of our inheritance. Truly our God is great and greatly to be praised, for He is glorious and has bestowed a glorious work of grace upon His children. Not only is He glorious in creation, but He is all the more glorious through His…
Call to Worship – February 8 2015
We worship our God the Father of His people. In the Old Testament the Israelites were called the people of God. They were recognized as His children. They sang songs of praise to God for His sovereign ways and mighty works (Psalm 138). They praised Him whose lovingkindness is everlasting (Psalm 136). Yet, in the trials and struggles of life induced by sin and the sinful nature, the people often found themselves in trouble. Disobedience gave way to captivity by foreign pagan nations. During the captivity to Babylon their captors demanded them to sing songs of Zion (Psalm 137). The…
Call To Worship, February 1st 2015
We worship God our Father who adopted us as His children. The heavenly Father conferred upon us the status of adoption through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit applies the spirit of adoption to us. This Trinitarian work gives us good reason to rejoice; not only are we justified and regenerated, but we are predestined to become the sons and daughters of the Father as fellow heirs with our Lord and Savior. We will inherit the kingdom of heaven as adopted children. We were conceived in sin, born of the flesh and blood of Adam with the sinful will of…
Call to Worship, January 25 2015
We worship our God, the one and only sovereign King. God oversees His creation with His foreordaining power and with the same He sustains all existence. God is King over all the earth not by democracy, but by His very being. His being is all powerful and He does not need a vote of confidence. So, He predestined all things according to His most free and holy will. God did not seek direction or consultation from any other being. He reigns over all and sits on His holy throne. No one will thwart, balk, foil or frustrate His will. His…
Call to Worship, January 18 2015
We worship our God who knows neither accident nor fate. He made all things, including us, with His great skill. He is intimately acquainted with all our ways. We cannot flee from Him because He is everywhere in simultaneous perfection. He knows our next word before we speak it, where we will go before we make our plans, and our trials before they hit us. God not only knows all, but he ordained all. He determined our appointed times and the boundaries of our habitation (Acts 17:25-26). How wonderful He is that in His plan He predestined the salvation of…
Call to Worship January 11, 2015
Pastor Silas Mercer wrote on behalf of the Phillips Mill Church in Wilkes county Georgia, in 1787, “We are fully convinced that Salvation is all of grace, or all of works; for they cannot be mixed in this business; and if it be by grace, then the doctrine of the Election, or God’s love to his people, is the very foundation of our salvation; and is that foundation of God which standeth sure…”[1] In addition, the Georgia Association confessed in the Abstract & Decorum of 1790, “We believe in the everlasting love of God to His people, and the eternal…