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February 2, 2025

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

The Lord's Supper

This Sunday, we will be celebrating the Lord’s Supper. Let us examine our hearts in preparation.

“Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgement on himself.”

1 Cor. 11: 28-29

Profession of Faith

This week we will be professing our Faith as a congregation. We will state the answers too the Westminster Shorter Catechism Questions 98, 99, 100 and 102.

Q98. What is prayer?

  Prayer is offering our desires to God in the name of Christ for things that agree with His will, confessing our sins, and thankfully recognizing His mercies.

 

Q99. How does God direct us to pray?

  The whole word of God, but especially the Lord’s prayer, which Christ taught His disciples, directs our prayers.

 

Q100. What does the beginning of the Lord’s prayer teach us?

  The beginning of the Lord’s prayer (Our Father in heaven) teaches us to draw near to God with completely holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father who is able and ready to help us. It also teaches that we should pray with and for others.

 

Q102. For what do we pray in the second request?

  In the second request (your kingdom come) we pray that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed, that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, with ourselves and others brought into and kept in it, and that the kingdom of glory may come quickly.

Songs

Our songs for this Sunday’s worship:

The Lord Almighty Reigns
** NEW** From Everlasting (Psalm 90)
Revelation Song
By Faith

Sermon

This Week's Sermon Passage

Acts 4:23-31
23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? 26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’— 27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

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