Song: This Is Amazing Grace Welcome: Call to Worship Song: Your Love So High Prayer Of Confession Song: O God Our Help In Ages Past Affirming our Faith: New City Catechism 1 Song: May The Grace Of Christ Our Saviour Bible Reading: Zechariah 1: 1-21 – Zechariah calls the people of God to return to …

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Scott Hubbard writes about William Cowper, who on New Year’s Day 1773 was about to slip into a depression that would remain for the rest of his life. Anticipating that descending darkness Cowper wrote the hymn God Moves In A Mysterious Way. From Hubbard’s article: … before night fell on Cowper’s soul, he sat in …

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Mez McConnell reflects on Jesus observation about wealth being an obstruction to entering the kingdom of God and the implications of that for evangelism and church planting: The Danger of Wealth Jesus said it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom …

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Gathering to worship God bids us do one thing at once with all our focus. This runs counter to the growing tendency to split attention between any number of tasks, giving full attention to nothing. God deserves nothing less than undivided attention. From John Muether: Single-minded attention is strange to us, even in worship, because …

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