Worship Notes // Reflections for private and family worship and preparation for corporate worship
Worship Notes for 5/4/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! This week as we come together to worship and receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper together, Mike will be preaching on John 3:1-15 and the account of Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus. The sermon, which will be preached as a first person narrative, is titled “My Name is Nicodemus.” Please read this ...
Worship Notes for 4/27/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! This week we have the opportunity to get to know Tre’ Smith, candidate for the position of Associate Pastor at Redeemer. Tre’ is going to be preaching a message titled “Nothing Compares” from Philippians 3:7-11. Though it is a familiar passage, even the sermon title reminds me that I need to be ...
Worship Notes for 4/20/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! NOTE: We are back to our “old” worship format; two services at JRDS and Sunday School at 10 AM! This week Mike is preaching on a portion of the Gospel of John which contains the account of Jesus cleansing the temple. We see in Jesus’ actions no small amount of ‘zeal for ...
Worship Notes for 4/13/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! This Sunday the Redeemer family will be worshiping in two different locations, as cleanup from a Saturday evening event at James River Day School precludes our meeting there as we normally do for worship at 8:30 and Sunday School at 10:00. Both services will share a common theme and focus: Christ’s glory ...
Worship Notes for 4/6/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Our service this Sunday begins with a Call to Worship which is a familiar portion of Psalm 34- a psalm written at a particularly low point in David’s life, yet a psalm which invites us to come to the Lord and to taste and see his goodness: Call to Worship Psalm 34:1-9 ...
Worship Notes for 3/30/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Our service this Sunday begins with a call to worship from the prophet Isaiah; a passage which is actually quoted by Joshn the Baptist in John 1:23. Call to Worship Isaiah 40:1-5 Leader: “Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your God. Congregation: “Speak kindly to Jerusalem: And call out to ...
Worship Notes for Easter Sunday 3/28/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! I’m writing you a bit earlier than usual this week because I’d love for you to meditate on the events of today, Maundy Thursday. Here are a few of my thoughts for you on this day which has been observed as an integral part of “Holy Week” by Christians for the ...
Worship Notes for 3/16/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Matthew 21:1-11 Christ’s Triumphal Entry As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring ...
Worship Notes for 3/9/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. (John 1:1,2) We contiunue our study of the Gospel of John this week as Mike preaches on John 1:1-13 in a message titled “A Logos for Life.” Our ...
Worship Notes for 3/2/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. (John 20:31) This week we begin a study of the Gospel of John, with the prayer that these words, written by the Apostle John, ...
Worship Notes for 2/17/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in ...
Worship Notes for 2/10/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. (Zeph. 3:17) This week as Mike preaches the second of two ...
Worship Notes for 2/3/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! “Recovering Intimacy” Sounds a bit like a workshop title of some type, doesn’t it?? But it is actually our sermon title for this week, with Mike preaching out of Genesis 2:18-25. We’ll begin with a reminder from Scripture that we are called to bring glory to our Father when we gather for ...
Worship Notes for 1/27/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! You are in a WAR! Not the type of message one might expect to see in a church office, but a brother in ministry who has a heart to see the Kingdom of Christ extended sees this message each day as he opens his office door. It is an ever-present reminder ...
Worship Notes for 1/20/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! The godly man has his delight in the law of the Lord, on it he meditates day and night. Psalm 1:2 Come and see the works of God, who is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men. Psalm 34:5 Let the whole earth stand in awe of him. Psalm 33:8 ...
Worship Notes for 1/13/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Hope for Present and Future This Sunday, Mike is preaching a message which encourages us to persevere in hope in our present struggles. Throughout our worship service, we’ll be looking at the theme of God’s amazing grace to us in Christ. Grace to sinners; grace to us in our weakness; grace coming ...
Worship Notes for 1/6/2008
Greetings, Redeemer Family! A blessed 2008 to you and your family! My prayer for you as we begin a new year together is this: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ...
Worship Notes for 12/16/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! This Sunday our worship service follows a historic order know as the “Service of Lessons and Carols.” This order of service was first used in the Church of England in 1880, and became a tradition around the World after it was used at King’s College in Cambridge on Christmas Eve during the ...
Worship Notes for 12/9/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Through most of the year, our worship services are planned in a confessional and thematic model- that is, we focus on the Isaiah 6 pattern of remembering the attributes and mighty acts of the Lord, confessing our sin in the face of His holiness, being restored by the gospel of grace, and ...
Worship Notes for 12/2/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Through most of the year, our worship services are planned in a confessional and thematic model- that is, we focus on the Isaiah 6 pattern of remembering the attributes and mighty acts of the Lord, confessing our sin in the face of His holiness, being restored by the gospel of grace, and ...
Worship Notes for 11/25/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! An abbreviated issue of Worship Notes this week, as the Bennetch family heads up to Pennsylvania and reconnects with our agrarian roots and the Bennetch siblings. We look forward to a blessed time of fellowship and pray that your Thanksgiving will be a time of remembering the goodness of the Lord toward ...
Worship Notes for 11/18/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! As Thanksgiving approaches, and as we focus particularly on giving thanks to the Lord in the beginning of our worship service this Sunday, I encourage you to read this historic hymn of thanks and allow it to prepare your heart to bring a sacrifice of praise and thanks in your heart to ...
Worship Notes for 11/11/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! This Sunday, we’ll be using two psalms to guide our worship in the beginning of the service. First of all, we will read and sing Psalm 146 , wherein we are reminded of the Lord’s attributes: 1 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. 2 I will praise the Lord ...
Worship Notes for 11/4/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! First of all, don’t forget to ‘fall back’ an hour on Saturday night! (That means that we’ll all be well-rested and ready for worship this Sunday….right???) This Sunday we complete our focus on the five “solas” of the protestant reformation in the early portion of our worship service. Though these five brief ...
Worship Notes for 10/28/2007
Greetings, Redeemer Family! Throughout the month of October we will be highlighting the five “solas” of the protestant reformation in the early portion of our worship service. Though these five brief statements cannot serve as an accurate summation of the reformed faith, they do help us to keep focused on some of the essentials of ...
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