Bulletin 4.26.26
"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful" Hebrews 10:23
Reflection Before The Service
Reflection Before The Service
In one sense, indeed, we were saved by love. Yes, we were saved by love, but it was by a greater love than the love in our cold and sinful hearts; we were saved by love, but it was not our love for God but God's love for us, God's love for us by which he gave the Lord Jesus to die for us upon the cross. " Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins " (I John 4:10). That love alone is the love that saves. And the means by which it saves is faith.
– J. Gresham Machen (1881 -1937), What Is Faith? (1925)
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
Hebrews 10.19 -25
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
(Prayer)
Reflection Before The Service
In one sense, indeed, we were saved by love. Yes, we were saved by love, but it was by a greater love than the love in our cold and sinful hearts; we were saved by love, but it was not our love for God but God's love for us, God's love for us by which he gave the Lord Jesus to die for us upon the cross. " Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins " (I John 4:10). That love alone is the love that saves. And the means by which it saves is faith.
– J. Gresham Machen (1881 -1937), What Is Faith? (1925)
The Call To Worship
Hebrews 10.19 -25
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
(Prayer)
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