Nov 10, 2019 - Set List

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Teaching Passage: Psalm 44

Living Without Healing (A Life of Chronic Pain)

OUTLINE:

Giving God our Pain (v. 1-2)

  1. How the pain appears (v.1).

  2. How the pain affects us (v. 2a).

  3. How the pain affects others (v. 2b).

Giving God our Petitions (v.3, 4)

  1. Ask God for Consideration (v.3a)

  2. Ask God for Counsel (v.3a-4)

  3. Enlightened Counsel for us:

a. To teach contentment with God’s ways and words.

b. To make us face the reality of more than we can bear.

c. To bring us more consistently before the throne of grace.

d. To focus us more on inner transformation in Christ than physical healing.

e. To teach us to abandon American individualism.

f. To teach us to minister to others.

Giving God our Praise (v.5, 6)

Set List:

O Worship the King
God is For Us
Living Hope
O Lord My Rock and My Redeemer

Sovereign Over Us - November 2019

God’s sovereignty is simultaneously one of the most difficult and comforting doctrines. It leaves us with unanswered questions, unexplained emotions, and yet seeks to form us with unwavering assurance of God’s goodness and faithfulness. Though our “Why’s” don’t always get a detailed answer, we have a King who both “rules over all” (Ps 103:19) and loves us and knows us intimately. In fact, we have a God who loves us so much that sometimes He calls us to walk through various “valleys” for our own good!

Of course, this doesn’t always feel good, which is what the song “Sovereign Over Us” holds in tension and helps us express. Not to be suppressed, our God-given emotions may be just the very vehicle God uses for communicating His love to us in the midst of trying, or even tragic, circumstances. For His strength is sufficient to sustain us in our weakness (2 Cor 12:9-11).

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Maybe you’re in a valley right now? As seen in our recent “Living Without” series, the Psalms provide us with gut-wrenching examples of crying out to our good, faithful, and sovereign God, who is the “lifter of the lowly” (Ps 145:14). He sees you. Loves you. Upholds you. Though His ways and His timing don’t always make sense to us (Is 55:8-9), perhaps He’s stirring within us a greater trust and dependence on Him that can only be learned through such trials. And perhaps our Father is drawing you, His child, closer and closer to Himself in intimate communion.

Whether we’ve been through valleys recently or not, Jesus promised that at some point we all will (Jn 16:33). How are you preparing now? How are you preparing to praise God in valley? It’s our hope that Biblically packed songs like this will help us cry out to God, and prepare us to trust and look to Him, even when the world seems to be caving in on us.

- Jonathan

Sovereign Over Us

Written by Aaron Keyes, Bryan Brown, Jack Mooring

Lyrics: 

Verse 1:

There is strength within the sorrow (Ps 46:1, 2Co 12:9)
There is beauty in our tears (Ps 42:1-4, 126:5)
And You meet us in our mourning (Ps 30:11-12, Is 41:10)
With a love that casts out fear (1 John 4:18)

You are working in our waiting (Ps 27:14, Rom 8:25)
Sanctifying us (Rom 5:3-5, Phil 2:13, Ja 1:2-4)
When beyond our understanding (Deut 29:29)
You're teaching us to trust (Phil 4:19)

Chorus:

Your plans are still to prosper (Jer 29:11, Ps 35:27)
You've not forgotten us (Deut 31:6, Ps 94:14-15, Mt 28:20)
You're with us in the fire and the flood (Is 43:2, Dan 3:25)
Faithful forever, perfect in love (Ps 146:6, 1 Pet 4:19)
You are sovereign over us (Is 46:9-10, Ps 115:3, Eph 1:3-14)

Verse 3

You are wisdom unimagined (Rom 11:33-34)
Who could understand Your ways? (Is 55:8-9)
Reigning high above the heavens (Ps 103:19)
Reaching down in endless grace (Ps 57:3, Jn 1:16)

You're the lifter of the lowly (Ps 30:1-3, 145:14)
Compassionate and kind (Ps 94:18-19, Is 49:13)
You surround and You uphold me (Ps 5:11-12)
And Your promises are my delight (Ps 37:4, 2 Cor 1:20)

Bridge

Even what the enemy means for evil (Rom 9:17)
You turn it for our good (Gen 50:20)
And for Your glory (Ex 14:4, Is 42:8)

Even in the valley You are faithful (Ps 23:4, 86:15)
You're working for our good (Lam 3:22-23, Rom 8:28)
And for Your glory (Is 48:9-11, Rom 11:36)

© 2011 Jack Mooring Music, Meaux Jeaux Music, Thankyou Music, worshiptogether.com songs

Oct 27, 2019 - Set List

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Teaching Passage: Psalm 22

Living Without Support

OUTLINE:

The Pain of living without support (v.1-21)

  1. God forsaking us (v.1, 2, 6-8, 11-18)

  2. God faithful to us (vs. 3-5, 9-10, 19-21)

The Praise of never being unsupported (v.22-31)

  1. The Proclamation of Praise (v.22-23)

  2. The Premise of Praise (v.24)

  3. The Production of Praise (v.25)

  4. The People of Praise (v.26-31)

The Passion of Christ (v. 1, 7, 8, 16, 18, 22)

  1. V. 1 & Mark 15:34

  2. V. 7, 8 & Matt. 27:29, 43

  3. V. 16 & John 20:25

  4. V. 18 & John 19:23, 24

  5. V. 22 & Heb. 2:9-13

Set List:

Magnificent, Marvelous, Matchless Love
This is Amazing Grace
Lord, I Need You
He Will Hold Me Fast
Great is Thy Faithfulness
O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer

Oct 20, 2019 - Set List

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Teaching Passage: Psalm 6:1-10

Living Without the Life We Wanted

OUTLINE:

Requests we should give God (v. 1-4a)

  1. Request God's grace and mercy (v.1).

  2. Request God's nearness (v.2-4a).

Reasons we should give God (v. 4b-7)

  1. God should hear us because of who he is (v.4b).

  2. God should hear us because of what God deserves (v.5).

  3. God should hear us because of who he loves (v.6-7).

Reception we should presume from God (v. 8-10)

Set List:

A Mighty Fortress is Our God
My Hope is in You
O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer
How Deep the Father’s Love For Us
This Life I Live

O Lord My Rock and My Redeemer - October 2019

On any given Sunday, when God’s people gather, we come from various places in our weeks. Some enter having celebrated joyous milestones like weddings and births. Some from the “status quo” in the regularity of life. And some come bearing the weight of work stresses, family tension, or real tragedies. In all of these situations, what do we need most? To gaze upon the glory of our God and Savior.

When the allures of this life draw us in, we’re reminded that “true delight is found in God alone.” When we casually approach the Lord for the 300th Sunday in a row, we’re reminded that His grace is “a well too deep to fathom.” And when we’re bogged down by life’s trials, we’re reminded that our Lord is our “Rock and Redeemer”, a strong shield and defender, who guarantees our refuge by His faithfulness. And ultimately, our hope lives in our risen Savior, Jesus Christ, who broke the bonds of our sin and shame, conquering the grave and death!

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Modern hymn “O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer” helps us posture ourselves in three ways before God.

Verse 1: We begin by orienting our praise first to God’s good character and our desperate need for Him.

Verse 2 continues this thought by giving us vocabulary to claim God’s power to persevere under trial.

Verse 3: And of course, the hymn crescendos to look at Christ’s atoning death and glorious resurrection.

In light of our “Representation” in Christ we’ve been learning in Romans 5. His death is our death to sin. And his resurrection is our resurrection to new life. Here and for eternity. Let us cry out to God together as we sing.

- Jonathan

O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer

Written by Nathan Stiff

Lyrics:

VERSE 1

O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer (Ps 19:14)
Greatest treasure of my longing soul (Ps 42:1; Matt 13:44; Phil 3:8)
My God, like You there is no other (1 Sam 2:2; 2 Sam 7:22)
True delight is found in You alone (Ps 1:2, 37:4, 73:26; Mt 6:33)
Your grace, a well too deep to fathom (Ps 103:12; Rm 5:20; Eph 2:7)
Your love exceeds the heavens’ reach (Ps 19:1, 36:5, 103:11)
Your truth, a fount of perfect wisdom (Ps 19:7; Pr 9:10; Col 2:2-3; Ja 1:5)
My highest good and my unending need (Ps 40:17, 136:1; Rm 8:28)

VERSE 2
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer (Ps 18:2)
Strong defender of my weary heart (Ps 50:15, 145:19)
My sword to fight the cruel deceiver (Ps 28:7-8; Heb 4:12)
And my shield against his hateful darts (Gen 15:1; Ps 91:3; Eph 6:16)
My song when enemies surround me (Deut 33:27; Ps 40:3)
My hope when tides of sorrow rise (Rm 5:1-2; Col 1:27; 1 Pt 1:3)
My joy when trials are abounding (Rm 5:3-5; Ja 1:2; 1 Pt 1:6)
Your faithfulness, my refuge in the night (Ps 46:1, 62:7; 91:4; 2 Th 3:3)

VERSE 3
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer (Ps 62:2)
Gracious Savior of my ruined life (Ps 51:1-2; Lk 2:11, 19:10; Rm 8:1)
My guilt and cross laid on Your shoulders (Is 53:6; Rm 4:25;  1 Pt 2:24)
In my place You suffered bled and died (Rm 5:6; Col 2:14; 1 Pt 3:18)
You rose, the grave and death are conquered (Rm 1:4; 1 Co 15:55-57)
You broke my bonds of sin and shame (Rm 6:4-8, 8:2; Gal 5:1)
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer (1 Pt 2:4)
May all my days bring glory to Your Name (Eph 1:4-6; 1 Co 10:31; 1 Pt 2:12)

Written by Nathan Stiff © 2017 Sovereign Grace Worship CCLI #193208

Oct 13, 2019 - Set List

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Teaching Passage: Romans 7:14-25

The Enemy of Indwelling Sin

OUTLINE:

Conflicting Passions (v.14-20)

Conflicting Principles (v.21-23)

Conflict Prayer (v.24-25)

Concluding Principles

  1. We will not destroy sin on our own no matter how much we want to.

  2. We would be unwise to ignore our sin nature, we must engage it.

  3. Pray the prayer of Ps. 139:23 with regularity to be killing sin.

  4. Be diligent to watch and pray to seriously squash sin (Matt. 26:41).

  5. Be proactive against sin by treasuring the law of God more (v.16, 22, 25).

Set List:

The Lion and the Lamb
God is For Us
Jesus, I Come (Out of My Bondage)
O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer
And Can It Be