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Our Order of Worship

Introduction
We read in Romans 12:1, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” The Greek word translated in this verse as service could also be translated as worship and is the basis for our word liturgy. Our entire life is to be a liturgy – an act of service and worship to the great God who has saved us. And though all of life is an act of worship, we are also called as God’s people to gather together for worship. It is the public and corporate worship of God’s people that becomes the most central and important thing we do, which then gives even greater meaning to everything else that God calls us to do.

The word liturgy is also used in English as meaning the form or order of public worship. All churches and services have a liturgy, an order and meaning for what they do.

This morning, I would like us to consider our own liturgy and to have us think more deeply about what we do and why we do it. If our corporate worship is so important, than it is equally important that we understand the what and why of our liturgy.    continue reading


God Has Spoken and God Speaks to You
In the first book of the Bible we read that God spoke and the universe, the earth, and everything in it came into existence. Throughout history God continued to speak to men giving them direction that they could not find in their own wisdom. Many of the things that God spoke over a period of over 1500 years were written down and have been amazingly preserved in the book we call the Bible. And nearly two thousand years ago God spoke in an equally powerful way by sending His Son, Jesus who is the Messiah or Christ.

Many people claim that God is unknowable or that we create God through our own thoughts. Others believe that there is a God but do not bother to listen to Him. I invite you to take a few minutes to consider what God has spoken through His creation, His Word, and His Son.    continue reading

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