Westminister Confession of Faith: Lesson 3
Good morning to folks who are coming in. Also to you. It wasn’t. What time is it? Good morning. How are you? Nice to meet you. Good question. Thank you. This clock says that we are a little late. Is that clock right? I don’t know. It’s a little bit fast, just a bit. Maybe. All right. Good morning. I’m going to open this morning with a reading from Chapter 3 of Genesis. If you’d like to turn there or…
Fighting for the Kingdom
Good evening. I’d like to begin tonight with a reading from Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 11. I believe you’ll find that on page 1037 of your Pew Bibles. And I’ll begin reading in verse 7. Matthew 11, beginning at verse 7. Let’s give attention to the very word of God. As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John. What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? What then…
Westminster Confession of Faith: Lesson two
Father and our God, what a joy it is to come before you this morning in the name of Christ, knowing that you have set this day aside for us. What a blessing to even now be able to anticipate the call to worship later this morning. But now, Lord, we ask that you’d help us as we consider your word. as we seek to use the Westminster Confession of Faith, especially with regard to scripture this morning. Help us…
Chosen
If you’d open your copy of God’s Word now to 1 Thessalonians. I believe that’s on page 1,255 of your pew Bibles. And I’ll be reading there the first chapter. Let’s give attention to the very word of God. Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the Church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering…
Taste and See
Amen. Our second reading of scripture comes from the Psalms. Psalm 34. If you’re able to stand for the reading of God’s word, that would be wonderful. If not, please be seated. I’ll be reading the whole Psalm. I believe this is on page 588 of your two Bibles. Let’s give attention to the very word of God. Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out and he went away. I will bless…
Westminster Confession of Faith: Introduction
Thank you for having us. We thought that, or I thought, that we would start taking a look at the Westminster Confession of Faith. during this education hour. It’s always good for me to go through it and to be reminded, but I’m hoping that this will be a good opportunity for us all to look at the foundational Christian doctrines, doctrines of our particular faith. So before we get started, let me pray for us. You see this is…
Responsibility & Restoration
Again, let’s turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 5 in your Pew Bible. It’s page 1,213. Thank you. See, Paul’s about to shift his focus from talking about all the ways that the Church of Corinth was dividing themselves up, now he’s going to turn to some of the ways the Church of Corinth was defiling themselves. He’s going to help them redirect their focus in terms of the purity of the Church. And I thought it’s interesting how, as you…
Unity and Humility that are Worthy of the Gospel
Good morning, everyone. Before I begin this morning, I do want to say this will be my last Sunday here. Congratulations and praise the Lord that you have a pastor coming. But I do want to say thank you. Being able to come down here this winter and this spring has been an incredible blessing to me. You’ve definitely ministered to me. You’ve been very kind, very friendly. You haven’t lived up to your reputation as Cape Codders at all.…
Sunday School
That’s fine. Oh, yeah. All right, so let’s go ahead and start. It’s a great day to be in the house of the Lord on this Sunday and especially on Mother’s Day. So let’s go ahead and start with a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for all that you’ve given to us, for all the grace that you’ve bestowed upon us, the mercy. Thank you so much for the opportunity to come into your…
1 Corinthians 4
to Massachusetts. As you all know, we only have two or three churches in Massachusetts. Maine has about 15. So it’s a little strange. And so, you know, so keep praying for that. As always, I’ll close. I’ll close Ethan now. But as always, you know, even in the midst, personally, cranking out the work, just trying to keep up with the work as clerk and everything. Every time we get up a sing and exalt Christ, and Christ is…
The First Martyr
Well, good morning. It’s good to be with you this morning, and thank you for the invitation to come and to preach the word and to preside over the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. It’s good to be with you here this morning. I want to begin by just before I read the text, I want to just say a word about how I chose this text. It’s coming to fill in at different churches. It’s always a challenge to…
Divisions in the Church
Man, thanks, Chris, and it’s so exciting to hear about your meetings coming up. Yeah, really excited to be able to meet Chris sooner or later and celebrate with you all on this next chapter the Lord has for your church. If you have a Bible, you can open with me to 1 Corinthians. I’m picking up where I left off. I’m going to read 1 Corinthians chapter 3 all the way to chapter 4. Verse 1, we’ve been seeing…