MGPC Worship Video May 31, 2020

Gary Ware

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June 1, 2020

This is the video recorded for Mount Gambier Presbyterian Church for the weekend of May 31, 2020.
Another story that has no specific relationship to the larger narrative of God’s unfolding faithfulness in redeeming his people by a Messiah.
We meet an un-named woman who seemed to have everything she could want except one thing; who then receives that one thing from the gracious hand of God; and who then experiences great heart-break and loss; but experiences a further experience of God’s gracious provision.
A people who were in exile, and who may have wondered about the extent of God’s loving grace, receive another instalment illustrating the loving kindness of God’s character.
All the better to help them make the choice of faith.

Back To The Gym

Gary Ware

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June 1, 2020

I hadn’t particularly planned to be back at the gym on opening morning, but it seemed like a lower south-east of South Australia version of a cyclone went by last night.

There were about fifteen of us making use of the presently limited to twenty people facility.

Congratulations to Jetts Mount Gambier on weathering a storm of a different type.

My Hymn Of Praise / Forever Jesus – Sunday Songs

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May 31, 2020

My Hymn Of Praise, also known as Forever Jesus, from Matt Papa and Stuart Townend, vocals on this seem to be by Townend and Kristyn Getty (and a cast of many).

The lyrics:
Verse 1
My hymn of praise shall be “forever Jesus”
My firm foundation in shifting sands
My strength and hope through many fears and failures
The disappointments of the past
His constant love has held me fast
Chorus 1
So for all my days I will sing my praise
To the King, “forever Jesus”
Though the storms may rage He is strong to save
He’s the King forever Jesus
Verse 2
My song of joy shall be “forever Jesus”
Who bore the suffering, who made a way
His life a gift, His death a precious ransom
That wipes the sinner’s guilt away
And turns our night to glorious day
Repeat Chorus 1
Verse 3
My final breath shall be “forever Jesus”
When shadows lengthen before my eyes
My Lord and Friend, Companion through the valley
When dearest ones are left behind,
His hand will lead me to the light
Chorus 1
Chorus 2
When I meet His gaze I will sing my praise
To the King, “forever Jesus”
All my sorrows past, I am home at last
With my King, “forever Jesus!”

Words and Music by Stuart Townend and Matt Papa.
(c) 2019 Getty Music Hymns and Songs/Love Your Enemies Music (admin. MusicServices.org) /Townend Songs (admin outside the US by songsolutions.org)

Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 22

Gary Ware

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May 31, 2020

Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 22

Q & A 37
Q What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
A The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness,1 and do immediately pass into glory;2 and their bodies, being still united in Christ,3 do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.4

Q & A 38
Q What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory,5 shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment,6 and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God7 to all eternity.8

*1 Hebrews 12:23.
*2 Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 5:6, 8; Philippians 1:23.
*3 1 Thessalonians 4:14.
*4 Daniel 12:2; John 5:28-29; Acts 24:15.
*5 1 Corinthians 15:42-43
*6 Matthew 25:33-34, 46
*7 Romans 8:29; 1 John 3:2.
*8 Psalm 16:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:17.

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