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Worship Highlights - July 2024

One purpose for our Summer Songbooks is to provide a tangible resource for singing in our homes. This book contains 26 songs with a simplified page layout including chords, lyrics, and notes. Whether you play guitar, piano, ukulele, or nothing, you can use this book (honestly, we sometimes find it more clear and convenient to sing with our kids at home without instruments).

Try picking a song of the week to sing each day, declaring God’s steadfast love in the morning and his faithfulness by night (Psalm 92:2). You can grab songbooks at our evening service and keep them at the end of the summer!

Book

“Family Worship Bible Guide” by Reformation Heritage Books

Have you ever read the Bible and struggled to understand it, much less explain it to children? Check out this resource which provides succinct comments and heart-searching questions for every chapter of the Bible.

Summer songbook

Come and use these songbooks each Sunday at 6pm in our summer evening services. Feel free to bring them back and forth during the summer and keep them for your own use at home.

Family Worship Tip

Gather all your daily family worship resources (Bibles, song pages/books, catechisms, notepads, etc.) together in one basket or bag for convenient use and to prevent time spent looking for them each day.


Worship Highlights - June 2024

This month we kick off a preaching series through Psalms 1-14 (in morning and evening worship).

Given this summer highlight in the Psalter, I want to recommend several resources that can help you marinate in the truths contained within. Read and listen, asking God to impress his truth upon your soul and transform your heart to live it out. Blessed is the one whose “delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night” (Psalm 1:2).

Book

“Deeper Places” by Matthew Jacoby

Explore how the rich emotional landscape of the Psalms helps us cultivate a deep joyful relationship with God.

MUSIC

Of course, the Gettys, Papa/Boswell, Shane & Shane, Sandra McCracken, and others we sing regularly have great musical resources on the Psalms. Here are a few you may not have heard yet!

Psalms: The Poetry of Prayer by Caroline Cobb

Psalm Songs: Multiple Vol’s by The Corner Room

Psalms We Sing Together by Wendell Kimbrough

To Live is Christ by Nathan Clark George

PRAYER Tip

The Psalms equip us with language for prayer. Try praying through a Psalm: read a verse and then talk to God about the themes of that verse in a personal way.


Worship Highlights - May 2024

Over the next few months I’ll be sharing some of my favorite resources to spur on growth as worshippers of the living God. Scripture presents worship as an all-of-life orientation (1 Cor. 10:31), a commitment of family rhythms (Deut. 6:4-9), and a gathering of the church community (Ps. 100).

In each of these spheres we are invited and enabled to worship through the new and living way that Jesus opened up through his sacrifice (Heb. 10:19-20). Cleansed by his blood, we now offer up a sacrifice not of blood, but of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name (Heb. 13:15).

May praise flow from our hearts, be evident in our lives, and resound from our lips!

Book

“Family Worship” by Donald Whitney

This book offers a biblical case for family worship in the home and practical tips on how to do it! My biggest takeaway is the simple rhythm of “Read, Pray, Sing” as the outline for an intentional time of family worship.

MUSIC

“Our God Will Go Before Us” by Matt Boswell & Matt Papa

Papa and Boswell deliver yet again with singable, biblical, and compelling hymns for the church. We recently introduced the first two tracks from this album, “The Lord Almighty Reigns” and “All My Boast is in Jesus.”

Singing Tip

Smiling while singing can help brighten your tone of voice, lift your pitch on key, and prompt your body to engage in worship with energy. Try it!