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January 26, 2025

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Let us prepare our hearts to worship the Lord this Sunday.

Corporate Confession of sin

You will notice the confession is the same as what you recieived in last weeks blog. Since Nathan got the flu and couldn’t preach, the sermon was switched and the confession no longer matched. We swapped a private confession of sin last week and will use this one this Sunday.

Please read and prepare your hearts for our Corporate Confession of Sin that we will all confess as a body together this Sunday.

“Heavenly Father, we acknowledge before you how easily we are silenced and don’t speak about the wonderful riches of your kindness towards us. How easily we go through our weeks and months and years without ever opening our mouth to speak to those around us about the wonderful news of the gospel. We repent for not taking more seriously the Great Commission your Son gave us before he ascended to your side in glory. We repent for missing so many of the opportunities you put in our path. We repent for living to please people rather than living to please you alone. Father, we ask you give us greater courage to speak of that which we have seen and heard. We pray in the great name of Jesus Christ, Amen.”

 

Songs

Our songs for this Sunday’s worship:

By Faith
Praise the Father, Praise the Son
Revelation Song
Your Words are Wonderful (Psalm 119)

Sermon

This Week's Sermon Passage

Acts 4:1-22
1  And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. 5 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, 6 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, 9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. 11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. 14 But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition. 15 But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another, 16 saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17 But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” 18 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether to God, you must judge, 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” 21 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened. 22 For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

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