Saturday, September 1, 2012

Preparing for Sunday, 9/2/12 FAMILY SUNDAY

It's good to be back with our church family this week. We were back in New Hampshire last weekend for Jenny's sister's wedding (which was great). And as I understand it, Eric Durso's music leading was also great. But we missed you guys, and we're looking forward to worshiping together tomorrow.

Jordan will be preaching on 1 Corinthians 6:7-11. Give the passage a read or two ahead of time, so that tomorrow's preaching is a rich avenue of worship. Don't want to give too much away this week. Just be there for the sermon - 'Twill be some good stuff.

Here's our song list - we're doing music before and after preaching tomorrow. Our songs will focus holistically on the Gospel, meaning that we'll start with who God is, and move to what He has done to save us from His wrath, through Christ, including something of the "big picture" of the Gospel. We're a people called out of our sin by God, and we are defined by what God accomplished for us at the cross. So tomorrow we'll rejoice both in our salvation, and ultimately in the God who has brought us to Himself, through His Son.

Songs Before Preaching:
1. Indescribable
A wonderful tune describing the wonder and majesty of the God who created the heavens and earth, and who loves us and gave His Son for us.

2. O Worship The King
Continuing the theme of the last song, we'll rejoice in our Savior-God with this hymn. The lyrics say, "O tell of His might, O sing of His grace!" This song gives us words to proclaim this to one another as a gathered body of singers.

3. My Hope Is Built
This one proclaims the glory of our Savior, and the unshakeable, unbreaking, imperishable eternal life we have if we're Christ's. This hymn is a treasure of the church.

Songs After Preaching:
4. Nothing But The Blood
This is partly a re-worked hymn, that proclaims Christ's blood and His cross as more valuable than anything else we could ever find in this life. God "made a way for us" to be reconciled to Him, forgiven of our sin, all in Christ.

5. Jesus Paid It All
I love the bridge of this song, that we'll sing through a few times tomorrow. It sums everything up we've already sang about today: "O praise the One who paid my debt, and raised this life up from the dead!"

Lots of good stuff happenin' tomorrow! Lord-willing, we'll see you then. 9:00 AM.

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