For September 2, 2018

Worship Next Sunday

September 2, 2018

Preaching: Bruce Johnson

Sermon Text: Mark 3:1-6

Sermon Title: A Matter of Life or Death

Music:

Opening Hymn: (#103E) O Come, My Soul, Bless Thou the...

Preparation Hymn: (#397) Breathe on Me, Breath of God

Response Hymn: (#378) Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is...

Closing Hymn: (#524) Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

Meditation on God's Law: Stealing

Supporting Passages: Psalm 73, Hebrews 2

Preparation Guide

Sunday: Psalm 72 (Tonight: Main Text)

Monday: (NO Daily Worship)

Tuesday: (NO Daily Worship)

Wednesday: (NO Daily Worship)

Thursday: Psalm 73 (Next Sunday: OT Reading)

Friday: Hebrews 2 (Next Sunday: NT Reading)

Saturday: Mark 3:1-6 (Next Sunday: Main Text)

Meditating on the Scriptures Together

Morning: Mark 3:1-6

Bruce Johnson Preaching

[1] Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. [2] And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. [3] And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” [4] And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. [5] And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. [6] The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

Wrapping up the conflict stories

The people and the place

The reality of the healing

The artful question

Anger and grief

Sermon point: Jesus’ power in His people’s weaknesses provokes His friends and His enemies.

Evening: Psalm 73

David Herrod Preaching

Trust in the Lord

For August 26, 2018

Worship Next Sunday

August 26, 2018

Preaching: Bruce Johnson

Sermon Text: Mark 2:23-28

Sermon Title: Sabbath: Replenishing the Drained

Music:

Opening Hymn: (#284) Ye Servants of God, Your Master...

Preparation Hymn: (#377) Join All the Glorious Names

Response Hymn: (#338) When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Closing Hymn: (#405) I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord

Meditation on God's Law: Adultery

Supporting Passages: Psalm 72, Hebrews 1

Preparation Guide

Sunday: Psalm 71 (Tonight: Main Text)

Monday: (NO Daily Worship)

Tuesday: (NO Daily Worship)

Wednesday: (NO Daily Worship)

Thursday: Psalm 72 (Next Sunday: OT Reading)

Friday: Hebrews 1 (Next Sunday: NT Reading)

Saturday: Mark 2:23-28 (Next Sunday: Main Text)

Meditating on the Scriptures Together

Morning: Mark 2:23-28

Bruce Johnson Preaching

[23] One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. [24] And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” [25] And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: [26] how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” [27] And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. [28] So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

Jesus makes another outrageous claim

The work underneath our work drives us to the restless refuge of religion

The cross is the place of our deep rest

Sermon point: Jesus is the Sabbath.

Evening: Psalm 72

Stephen Leavitt Preaching

The Perfect King

For August 19, 2018

Worship Next Sunday

August 19, 2018

Preaching: Bruce Johnson

Sermon Text: Mark 2:18-22

Sermon Title: Classic Mismatches

Music:

Opening Hymn: (#280) Wondrous King, All-Glorious

Preparation Hymn: (#400) Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me

Response Hymn: (#281) Rejoice, the Lord is King

Closing Hymn: (#402) Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation

Meditation on God's Law: Murder

Supporting Passages: Psalm 71, 2 Peter 3

Preparation Guide

Sunday: Psalm 70 (Tonight: Main Text)

Monday: WSC #60, Psalm 54, Luke 22 (Daily Worship)

Tuesday: WSC #61, Psalm 55, Luke 23 (Daily Worship)

Wednesday: WSC #62, Psalm 56, Luke 24 (Daily Worship)

Thursday: Psalm 71 (Next Sunday: OT Reading)

Friday: 2 Peter 3 (Next Sunday: NT Reading)

Saturday: Mark 2:18-22 (Next Sunday: Main Text)

Meditating on the Scriptures Together

Morning: Mark 2:18-22

Bruce Johnson Preaching

[18] Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” [19] And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. [20] The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. [21] No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. [22] And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

The setting

The wedding

The stretching

Sermon point: Jesus cannot be contained by the “structures” of mere religion or – on a more personal level – by our own calendars or itineraries.

Evening: Psalm 71

Nathan Snyder Preaching

From Our Mother's Womb to Our Final Days

For August 12, 2018

Worship Next Sunday

August 12, 2018

Preaching: Pastor Steve Magee

Sermon Text: Mark 2:13-17

Sermon Title: Followers of the Great Physician

Music:

Opening Hymn: (#238) Lord, with Glowing Heart ...

Preparation Hymn: (#163) Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty

Response Hymn: (#442) Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow!

Closing Hymn: (#456) Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners!

Meditation on God's Law: Father and Mother

Supporting Passages: Psalm 70, 2 Peter 2

Preparation Guide

Sunday: Psalm 69 (Tonight: Main Text)

Monday: WSC #57, Psalm 51B, Luke 19 (Daily Worship)

Tuesday: WSC #58, Psalm 52, Luke 20 (Daily Worship)

Wednesday: WSC #59, Psalm 53, Luke 21 (Daily Worship)

Thursday: Psalm 70 (Next Sunday: OT Reading)

Friday: 2 Peter 2 (Next Sunday: NT Reading)

Saturday: Mark 2:13-17 (Next Sunday: Main Text)

Meditating on the Scriptures Together

Mark 2:13-17

[13] He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. [14] And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

[15] And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. [16] And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” [17] And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Psalm 70

To the choirmaster. Of David, for the memorial offering.

[1] Make haste, O God, to deliver me!

O LORD, make haste to help me!

[2] Let them be put to shame and confusion

who seek my life!

Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor

who delight in my hurt!

[3] Let them turn back because of their shame

who say, “Aha, Aha!”

[4] May all who seek you

rejoice and be glad in you!

May those who love your salvation

say evermore, “God is great!”

[5] But I am poor and needy;

hasten to me, O God!

You are my help and my deliverer;

O LORD, do not delay!