Posts from May 2018

New Walls but Not New Hearts POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the June 3, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “New Walls but Not New Hearts” The main Scriptures for the day are Nehemiah 7.   (Pick…

Bulletin – Week of May 27, 2018

Glorifying God by Knowing, Living and Proclaiming our Hope in Christ Hope in Christ Church Bulletin May 27, 2018 Order of Worship Holy, Holy, Holy Call to Worship Psalm 89:1-5 You Alone Can Rescue Wonderful Merciful Savior Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) Offering:  Kingdom Advancement Speak O Lord Reflection on The Story:  Christine S Baptism:  Elisha R I Will Change Your Name (Mitch & Rochelle) Prayer Scripture:  Book of Esther Message:  God Will Deliver His People Even So Come Benediction…

A Poem on Suffering by a Chinese Christian

Only a seasoned Saint, who has suffered much for his faith could write the Poem that follows. Zhang Rongliang has spent 1/4 of his life in Chinese prisons for the crime of preaching Jesus. He has been beaten, tortured, starved, humiliated, worked hard and endured countless other forms of punishment simply because he refuses to denounce Jesus and he leads others to Christ. Reflect on these words about suffering and see if they give you a new insight into the…

Pentecost 2018 Joint Worship and Prayer Service

This past Sunday, We had a wonderful joint service with participants from four area churches representing 6 languages.  Hope in Christ hosted what hopes to be its first annual international pentecost Prayer and worship Service.  Iglesia hispana de Lynden, the Ethiopian and Eritrean Members of Whatcom New Life Assembly, and members of Bellingham’s Chinese Christian Church all participated along with some of the area’s native Dutch speakers.  This was a wonderful 1 ½ hours of multiethnic worship and prayer for…

Bulletin – Week of May 20, 2018

Hope in Christ Church Bulletin May 20, 2018 Order of Worship Prince of Peace Responsive Reading: Heidelberg Catechism Q. 27, 28 This Is My Father’s World Sovereign O the Deep, Deep Love ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus Offering:  G.E.M.S. Reflection on The Story:  Alice Brakke Prayer Scripture:  Ezra Message:  Providence, Pagans, and the Worship of God The First Place Benediction New Doxology This Week at Hope in Christ Church TODAY 8:15 Prayer group upstairs, all are welcome 9:30am  Worship…

Providence, Pagans and the Worship of God POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the May 20, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Providence, Pagans and the Worship of God” The main Scriptures for the day are Ezra 1-6. The…

God will Deliver His People POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the May 27, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “God will deliver his people” The main Scriptures for the day are Esther 1-10. The other passages…

Scripture Prayer Guides to help invigorate your Prayer Life

While preparing for a sermon I ran across this great set of scripture saturated prayer guides from SIMUSA to help Christians pray for a whole host of topics and people. Check some of them out based on where you would like to learn to pray more scripturally informed prayers. Worship Give Thanks to God Praise God through the Psalms 1 Praise God through the Psalms 2 Praise God through the Psalms 3 Worship God with a Focus on His Attributes…

Discipleship in the first century

From The Epistle of Barnabas chap. xix.—the way of light. The way of light, then, is as follows. If any one desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his works. The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of walking in this way, is the following. Thou shalt love Him that created thee: thou shalt glorify Him that redeemed thee from death. Thou shalt be simple in heart, and rich in spirit.…
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