I’ve come home from a congregational prayer meeting. Twenty of us from teens to (lets just say) older. What a blessing to hear our teens pray that our prayer meetings will continue to meet regularly for years. It does an old pastor’s heart good. One of the lessons our church has been reminded of over …
How Blessed Are Those Above Reproach (Psalm 119:1-8) and I Will Glory In My Redeemer are the songs of preparation, with God, Whose Almighty Word beginning worship. After the welcome and announcements our prayer of adoration and confession will remember the mighty acts of God in our own lives, and look to them as markers …
O Praise The LORD! The Man Is Truly Blessed (Psalm 84) and Jesus Is The Name We Honour are the songs of commencement. The prayer of adoration and confession will praise God for His holiness and goodness, thanking Him for revealing the pattern of salvation to us so we would recognise the fulfilment of His …
Tim Challies posted about his appreciation for Sunday evening worship, traditionally the second time Christian churches gathered to worship. Among the other reasons for his support for worshipping twice with God’s people on Sunday was this one: IT IS COUNTERCULTURAL An evening service counters our culture’s obsession with convenience and low commitment in matters of …
