Peace On Earth from Paul Baloche.
Not a brand new song, but a timely and timeless theme.
Peace On Earth from Paul Baloche.
Not a brand new song, but a timely and timeless theme.
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 10
Chapter 6 – Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
I. Our first parents, begin seduced by the subtlety and temptations of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.
II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
III. They being the root of mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by original generation.
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
V. This corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.
VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, does, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.
This week, Jesus reveals how recognition of the all-surpassing value of the Kingdom will cause those who perceive to forsake everything in order to have it in Worth It All.
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Song: See How Good It Is
Welcome:
Call to Worship
Song: The Love Of The Father
Prayer Of Confession
Song: Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Affirming our Faith
Song: May The Grace Of Christ Our Saviour
Bible Reading: Romans 9:1-18 – Romans 9–11 take up the question of Israel’s unbelief. The answer commences in chapter 9 with election: God chooses whom He will.
Bible Memorisation: Colossians 3:1,2,3
Song: Guide Me, O My Great Jehovah
Bible Reading: Matthew 13:44-46
Sermon: Worth It All
Announcements:
Pastoral Prayer:
Closing Blessing
Song: Your Love Defends Me
Entering the annual season of remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus, each of us carries our own experiences of bereavement and mortality. Openly speaking about death, as disciples of Jesus, helps us acknowledge our mortality, prepare for the last of our earthly days, and take peace and assurance from the victory over death that we share with Jesus.
From a liturgy from Every Moment Holy entitled An Exhortation Making Space to Speak of Dying posted at the Rabbit Room
…death is a present and
unavoidable reality, and one
through which we—the people
of God—must learn to openly
walk with one another.Yes, it is cause for lament. Death is
a horrible and inevitable sorrow.
It is grief. It is numb shock and
raw pain and long seasons of
weeping and ache. And we will
experience it as such.
But it is more than all of that.For it is also a baptism,
a prelude to a celebration.Our true belief that Christ died
and was raised again
promises this great hope:That there will be a newness of life,
a magnificent resurrection that
follows death and swallows it entirely.Death will not have the final word,
so we need not fear to speak of it.Death is not a period that ends a sentence.
It is but a comma,
a brief pause before the fuller thought
unfolds into eternal life.Read the whole liturgy at The Rabbit Room.
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