For the Lord's Day

In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great. —Thomas Goodwin
HT: Tim C.

For The Lord's Day

How to avoid a wasted life: “God created me – and you – to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion – namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. Enjoying and displaying are both crucial. If we try to display the excellence of God without joy in it, we will display a shell of hypocrisy and create scorn or legalism. But if we claim to enjoy his excellence and do not display it for others to see and admire, we deceive ourselves, because the mark of God-enthralled joy is to overflow and expand by extending itself into the hearts of others. The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.            -- Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper

For the Lord's Day & the New Year

“To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.” -- William Temple                                                                                      

4th Sunday in Advent

Angels, from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o'er all the earth;
Ye who sang creation's story,
Now proclaim Messiah's birth;
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.

-- James Montgomery

For the Third Sunday in Advent

Hark, the glad sound! The Savior comes,

The Savior promised long;

Let every heart exult with joy,

And every voice be song!

Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,

Thy welcome shall proclaim;

And heavens exalted arches ring

With Thy most honored Name.

 --Philip Doddridge

For the Second Sunday of Advent

“Welcome to earth, thou noble guest,

through whom the sinful world is blest!

In my distress thou com’st to me;

what thanks shall I return to thee?”

-- Martin Luther, 1535

First Sunday in Advent

“In Bethlehem long years ago a virgin mother nursed her child.

Who was that baby? Do you know? He was our Savior, meek and mild.

If you know why the Savior came, I’m sure you’ll love and trust him too.

Will you tell others? Speak his name? And tell them what he came to do?”

-- A Child’s Christmas Carol, James Montgomery Boice