Scripture at Sunrise 04.16.2024

“In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord…” -Zechariah 14:20

 

Happy day when all things shall be consecrated, and the horses’ bells shall ring out holiness to the Lord! That day has come to me. Do I not make all things holy to God? These garments, when I put them on or take them off, shall they not remind me of the righteousness of Christ Jesus my Lord? Shall not my work be done as unto the Lord? Oh, that today my clothes may be vestments, my meals sacraments, my house a temple, my table an altar, my speech incense, and myself a priest! Lord, fulfill Thy promise, and let nothing be to me common or unclean.

 

Let me in faith expect this. Believing it to be so, I shall be helped to make it so. As I myself am the property of Jesus, my Lord may take an inventory of all I have, for it is altogether His own; and I resolve to prove it to be so by the use to which I put it this day. From morning till evening I would order all things by a happy and holy rule. My bells shall ring—why should they not? Even my horses shall have bells—who has such a right to music as the saints have? But all my bells, my music, my mirth, shall be turned to holiness and shall ring out the name of “the happy God.” 

[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon, April 16 entry]

Songs We Sang on Sunday 04.14.2024

𝄞 Songs We Sang on 04/14/2024
[ Morning Service ]
♫ Song: Crown Him with Many Crowns
♫ Choir: My God is All I Need
♫ Song: Magnificent, Marvelous, Matchless Love
♫ Song: When We All Get to Heaven
♫ Song: Turn Your Eyes
♫ Invitation: Without Him

[ Evening Service ]
♫ Song: At Calvary
♫ Choir: On Jordan’s Stormy Banks
♫ Song: Amazing Grace
♫ Song: Days of Elijah
♫ Song: Every Promise of Your Word
♫ Invitation: I’d Rather Have Jesus

𝄞 Let us then be true and faithful, trusting, serving every day. Just one glimpse of Him in Glory will the toils of life repay! ♫

Scripture at Sunrise 04.09.2024

“Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them.” -Psalm 119:165

Yes, a true love for the great Book will bring us great peace from the great God and be a great protection to us. Let us live constantly in the society of the law of the Lord, and it will breed in our hearts a restfulness such as nothing else can. The Holy Spirit acts as a Comforter through the Word and sheds abroad those benign influences which calm the tempests of the soul.

Nothing is a stumbling block to the man who has the Word of God dwelling in him richly. He takes up his daily cross, and it becomes a delight. For the fiery trial he is prepared and counts it not strange, so as to be utterly cast down by it. He is neither stumbled by prosperity—as so many are—nor crushed by adversity—as others have been—for he lives beyond the changing circumstances of external life. When his Lord puts before him some great mystery of the faith which makes others cry, “This is an hard saying; who can hear it?” the believer accepts it without question; for his intellectual difficulties are overcome by his reverent awe of the law of the Lord, which is to him the supreme authority to which he joyfully bows. Lord, work in us this love, this peace, this rest, this day.

[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon, April 9 entry]

Summing Up Sunday 04.08.2024

“For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” -Romans 8:13

Do you hate sin? Are you striving for a pure and clean heart?

We are all guilty before the Lord. Consider the cost it took to deliver you from your sins. Get serious about sin and deal with it.

-Pastor Steve Wainright (excerpts from Sunday Morning Sermon “My Heart Affects My Eye” from Matthew 5:27-30)

Songs We Sang on Sunday 04.07.2024

[ Morning Service ]
♫ Song: Behold Our God
♫ Song: Come Thou Fount
♫ Song: It is Well
♫ Song: His Mercy is More
♫ Special: It Was Finished Upon that Cross
♫ Invitation: Come, Ye Sinners

[ Evening Service ]
♫ Song: Nothing But the Blood
♫ Choir: My God is All I Need / My God is So Big
♫ Song: What a Friend
♫ Song: Lift High the Name of Jesus
♫ Song: You are My All in All
♫ Invitation: ‘Tis So Sweet

𝄞 As you behold our God throughout this week, may you adore Him and praise Him with all that is within you! ♫

Scripture at Sunrise 03.19.2024

“The Lord will give grace and glory.” -Psalm 84:11

Grace is what we need just now, and it is to be had freely. What can be freer than a gift? Today we shall receive sustaining, strengthening, sanctifying, satisfying grace. He has given daily grace until now, and as for the future, that grace is still sufficient. If we have but little grace the fault must lie in ourselves; for the Lord is not straitened, neither is He slow to bestow it in abundance. We may ask for as much as we will and never fear a refusal. He giveth liberally and upbraideth not.

The Lord may not give gold, but He will give grace: He may not give gain, but He will give grace. He will certainly send us trial, but He will give grace in proportion thereto. We may be called to labor and to suffer, but with the call there will come all the grace required;

What an “end” is that in the text—”and glory!” We do not need glory yet, and we are not yet fit for it; but we shall have it in due order. After we have eaten the bread of grace, we shall drink the wine of glory. We must go through the holy, which is grace, to the holiest of all, which is glory. These words and glory are enough to make a man dance for joy. A little while—a little while, and then glory forever!

[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon, March 19 entry]

Songs We Sang on Sunday 03.17.2024

[ Morning Service ]
♫ Song: Behold Our God
♫ Choir: In the Valley
♫ Song: I Will Wait for You
♫ Song: Victory in Jesus
♫ Song: Grace Greater than Our Sin
♫ Invitation: Jesus Paid It All

[ Evening Service ]
♫ Song: Come, Thou Fount
♫ Choir: Christ is Mine Forevermore
♫ Song: At Calvary
♫ Song: I Will Serve Thee
♫ Song: In His Time
♫ Invitation: Take My Life & Let It Be

𝄞 May our moments and our days flow in ceaseless praise this week! ♫

Songs We Sang on Sunday 03.10.2024

[ Morning Service ]
♫ Song: Doxology
♫ Choir: Come Unto Jesus
♫ Song: The Solid Rock
♫ Song: Magnificent, Marvelous, Matchless Love
♫ Song: Facing a Task Unfinished
♫ Invitation: Turn Your Eyes

[ Evening Service ]
♫ Song: Bless the Lord, O My Soul
♫ Song: I Believe in a HiIl Called Mount Calvary
♫ Song: Are You Washed?
♫ Song: There’s a Sweet, Sweet Spirit
♫ Song: When I Survey
♫ Invitation: I Surrender All

𝄞 Praise the One from Whom all blessings flow this week! ♫

Scripture at Sunrise 02.20.2024

“The Lord shall guide thee continually.” -Isaiah 58:11

What aileth thee? Hast thou lost thy way? Art thou entangled in a dark wood and canst thou not find thy paths? Stand still, and see the salvation of God. He knows the way, and He will direct thee in it if thou cry unto Him.

 

Every day brings its own perplexity. How sweet to feel that the guidance of the Lord is continual! If we choose our own way or consult with flesh and blood we cast ok the Lord’s guidance; but if we abstain from self-will, then He will direct every step of our road, every hour of the day, and every day of the year, and every year of our life. If we will but be guided, we shall be guided. If we will commit our way unto the Lord, He will direct our course so that we shall not lose ourselves. 

 

But note to whom this promise is made. Read the previous verse: “If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry.” We must feel for others and give them, not a few dry crusts, but such things as we ourselves would wish to receive. If we show a tender care for our fellow-creatures in the hour of their need, then will the Lord attend to our necessities and make Himself our continual Guide. Jesus is the Leader, not of misers, nor of those who oppress the poor, but of the kind and tenderhearted. Such persons are pilgrims who shall never miss their way.

[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon, February 20 entry]

Songs We Sang on Sunday 02.18.2024

[ Morning Service ]
♫ Song: Behold Our God
♫ Choir: Sovereign Ruler of the Skies
♫ Song: In Christ Alone
♫ Song: The Solid Rock
♫ Song: Great is Thy Faithfulness
♫ Invitation: Jesus Draw Me Ever Nearer

[ Evening Service ]
♫ Song: Praise Him! Praise Him!
♫ Choir: In the Valley
♫ Song: Because He Lives
♫ Song: Lift High the Name of Jesus
♫ Song: Come Thou Fount
♫ Invitation: I’d Rather Have Jesus

𝄞 Sing, O earth, His wonderful love proclaim! ♫