Posts from 2023

Posts from 2023

Dec 10, 2023 Worship Service Guide (Advent Week 2)

Study Resources This Week’s Service Advent WelcomePrayer & ScriptureCall to WorshipSong of Longing: Come, Thou Long Expected JesusSong of Wonder: What Child is ThisSong of Preparation: Prepare Him RoomPrayer of Patience and Rest in God’s TimingFellowshipSermon: Exodus 33-34Song of Assurance: Before the ThroneBenedictionAnnouncements This Week’s Song Playlist

Advent Week 1: Advent Triumphs Over Nostalgia

Read: Isaiah 35:1-10 This season poses a unique challenge for Christ-followers: losing the message of Advent in the nostalgia of the season. Nostalgia is that ache to recapture the pleasant memories of simpler times. Perhaps a return to childhood and the warmth of home and family, cradled in the security of those who cared and provided for you. Perhaps a return to when your children were young and at home, and the family was all together in one place at…

Dec 3, 2023 Worship Service Guide (Advent)

Study Resources This Week’s Service Advent IntroductionPrayer & ScriptureCall to Worship: Isaiah 42:1-4Song of Need: My Help, My God (Psalm 42)Song of Asking: O Come, O Come EmmanuelPrayer of Embracing Both Joy & SorrowFellowshipSermon: Exodus 32Communion IntroductionSong: The AnchorTake Communion TogetherSong of Response: Joy to the WorldBenedictionAnnouncements This Week’s Song Playlist

Nov 5, 2023 Worship Service Guide

Study Resources This Week’s Service Welcome & PrayerCall to WorshipSong of Adoration: Come Behold the Wondrous MysterySong of Thanksgiving: MediatorPrayer for the Middle East ConflictSong of Assurange: He Will Hold Me FastFellowshipSermon: Exodus 25-28Communion IntroductionSong: How Deep the Father’s Love for UsTake Communion TogetherSong of Response: Life DefinedBenedictionAnnouncements This Week’s Song Playlist

Exodus 21-24 Bible Study Questions

3.  How is God’s law in 21:24 “life for a life, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, hand for a hand” not the same as seeking personal retaliation? 4. How is God glorified when justice is done and the law is upheld? 5. Which laws comfort you and which ones challenge your understanding? Why? 6. Who is this angel that God is referring to in 23:20-24? 7. What would the Lord do for his people if they devoted…

Oct 29, 2023 Worship Service Guide

This Week’s Song Playlist This Week’s Service Welcome & PrayerCall to WorshipSong of Adoration: How Great Thou ArtSong of Assurance: House of God ForeverSong of Response: God is GoodPrayerSunday School Dismissal & FellowshipPreaching of the Word – Exodus 21-24Song of Response: Nothing But the BloodSending/BenedictionAnnouncementsFellowship Study Resources

Exodus 19 & 20 Bible Study Questions

Exodus 19 & 20 Bible Study Questions Exodus 19 Exodus 20 16. What are ways God wants parents to be honored? 17. Why is the murder of another person a direct attack against God? 18. In what ways are adultery, stealing and bearing false testimony related to each other? 19. How does the first and tenth commandment deal with the human heart versus behavior?   20. How does covetousness threaten a person’s obedience to the nine other commandments? Application:

Oct 22, 2023 Worship Service Guide

This Week’s Song Playlist This Week’s Service Welcome & PrayerCall to WorshipSong of Adoration: RejoiceSong of Assurance & Thanksgiving: Let us Love and Sing & WonderSong of Surrender: Life DefinedSong of Restoration: We Will Feast in the House of ZionPrayerSunday School Dismissal & FellowshipPreaching of the Word – Exodus 19-20Song of Response: Yet Not I But Through Christ in MeSending/BenedictionAnnouncementsFellowship Study Resources

Exodus 18 Bible Study Questions

Exodus 18 Bible Study Questions: Exodus 18:1-12  Exodus 18:13-27 6. What did Jethro notice Moses doing for the people and why did he express concern? 7. What are ways Christians today try to carry out God’s calling by “doing it alone” rather than depending on others? 8. What was Jethro’s suggestion for a solution to Moses’s problem?  9. Read Acts 6:1-7.  How was the situation in the new testament church similar to the Jethro’s advice to Moses. 10. What gifts…

Oct 15, 2023 Worship Service Guide

This Week’s Song Playlist This Week’s Service Welcome & PrayerCall to WorshipSong of Surrender: Life DefinedSong of Adoration & Invitation: He IsSong of Confession & Assurance: His Mercy is MoreSong of Restoration: Absent from FleshPrayerSunday School Dismissal & FellowshipPreaching of the Word – Exodus 18Song of Response: This is my Father’s WorldSending/BenedictionAnnouncementsFellowship Study Resources

Advent Resources

What is Advent? The season of Advent, a season of waiting, is designed to cultivate our awareness of God’s actions–past, present, and future. In Advent we hear the prophecies of the Messiah’s coming as addressed to us–people who wait for the second coming. In Advent we heighten our anticipation for the ultimate fulfillment of all Old Testament promises, when the wolf will lie down with the lamb, death will be swallowed up, and every tear will be wiped away. In…

Oct 8, 2023 Worship Service Guide

This Week’s Song Playlist This Week’s Service Welcome & PrayerCall to WorshipSong of Invitation: Come to the FeastSong of Adoration: Grace AloneSong of Assurance: On Jordan’s Stormy BanksSong of Thanksgiving: My One ComfortPrayerSunday School Dismissal & FellowshipPreaching of the Word – Exodus 17Song of Response: Let Your Kingdom ComeSending/BenedictionAnnouncementsFellowship Study Resources

Exodus 12-14 Bible Study Questions

Exodus 12-14 Bible Study Questions Chapter 12 8.   Who left Egypt along with the Israelites? 9.   Read Genesis 15:13, Acts 7:6 and Galatians 3:17 and then Exodus 12:40.  What do you learn about God from this compilation of scriptures? 10.  What were the regulations given for the passover meal? 11.  How are the passover meal and the Lord’s supper alike?  How are they different?   12. Why did God instruct the Israelites to circumcise those who were foreigner’s…

Exodus 7-11 Bible Study Questions

Exodus 7-11 Bible Study Questions   What message was God trying to send to the Egyptians about their gods? 9. Who was spared from experiencing the consequences of plagues 4-9, why and what does this teach us about God? 10. What were the four compromises Pharaoh attempted to make with Moses & Aaron, and why were they rejected? 11. How is attempting to bargain with God’s will a demonstration of pride? 12. Read Proverbs 9:10.  What does it mean to…