What a great Sunday we shared last week with Pastor John Dunkin visiting! I also wanted to thank those of you who mentioned your appreciation of the new song we sang together; it is my pure pleasure and joy to serve the body by crafting God's powerful truth together with song that we can all sing together!!
That said, some of you "2nd-service-ites" asked me for another chance when I told you I thought that the 1st service gang had done a better job of learning and singing our new song. So, this week, you get your chance! I realize that there are a TON of words, and it does take some work on your parts to learn the song, and be able to sing it confidently, but take a listen to the recording I posted, and you should be ok.
We're going to start with "Better Is One Day" and echo the voice of David in the Psalms when he compared one day in the presence of the Lord to 1,000 days anywhere else! This side of the cross we are ALWAYS in the presence of the Lord via his Spirit dwelling within us, but as we come together Sunday corporately, we want to express the beauty and joy of being in God's presence TOGETHER, to worship.
Pastor Todd will lead us in prayer to surrender the morning to God's perfect will, and then we will watch a short video together about an upcoming ministry opportunity for the whole church to serve at the Union Rescue Mission.
After that, we will sing "Perfect Savior" again, and we'll see which service comes out the winning choir [nothing wrong with a little friendly competition right? :)]. We'll follow that with a song that reminds us that Christ died for the sins of the whole world, and how is the whole world to hear about it unless we tell them?? "No Other Name" will also help us prepare for the message Pastor Todd will bring us from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, (Read the passage as you prepare!) where Jesus tells us that we are salt and light, and what our responsibility is as such.
After the sermon, we'll respond with remembering that Jesus came down as a light into a world full of darkness, and that we must do the same as his ambassadors and redeemed: "Here I Am To Worship." Then we'll end with another Psalm of commitment that our words, thoughts, and deeds would be pleasing to our God in the ways he has instructed us through his word: "May The Words (Psalm 19)."
Our C4 class is studying the book of Colossians, so come and dive deeper into the richness of God's word in a more seminar/classroom style environment. The class meets upstairs during 2nd service.
So that's what's going on this Sunday; happy preparation!
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