January 16, 2022 - SERVICE CANCELED

** New Covenant Church worship service and discipleship classes canceled for January 16, 2022 **

While we may be unable to gather together for worship today, we encourage you to set aside and take time at home for family worship. Our service may be canceled, but worship, of course, is not canceled. This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! (Psalm 118:24). Even as our homes, cars, yards, and roads are covered in snow, this is the Lord’s Day, let us give Him due worship with joy in our hearts for being, in Christ, washed whiter than snow!

What a great opportunity to lead a simple worship “service” at home rehearsing the Gospel together. As you worship at home today, consider using the short plan below:

Home Family Worship Guide

Prayer: Begin with a prayer acknowledging God’s power to command all of creation according to His sovereign good purpose.

Scripture: Read Psalm 96 out loud.

Sing: All Creatures of Our God and King (On your own, or along with New Covenant Church worship team here)

Confess Sin: Recognize and confess in prayer and discussion how we often live as if we are the ones who have the power. We often try to make ourselves to be king over our lives. Sometimes this looks more obvious in our tireless efforts to assume control, and sometimes it looks more subtle in our neglect to seek the Lord’s wisdom and guidance, routinely order our lives around our own ends and desires. Take a few moments to consider how you have asserted yourself to be the one in control this week.

Embrace Christ: Read Isaiah 1:18 and Psalm 51:7 out loud. Find comfort and forgiveness in that all who confession their sin to the Lord, embracing Christ as the true King of kings, they shall be washed whiter than snow! Look outside and see how amazing it is that God has covered the earth with snow. The reality for all those who trust in Christ by faith is even more amazing than that! You are washed on the inside and outside with a cleansing that can never melt or be shoveled away. Salvation in Christ is comprehensive and eternal. Run to him today, for the first time or for the thousandth!

Sing: Jesus Paid It All (On your own, or along with New Covenant Church worship team here)

The Word: To extend and enrich your time of family worship, consider now listening to (or watching) sermon from previous weeks. You can access our podcast or YouTube channel to sit under the preaching of God’s Word. If you are unsure which one to pick, listen to last week’s sermon here.

Prayer: Close in prayer committing the day to the Lord, celebrating Christ, and thanking God for His provision for all things according to His will. Recite the Lord’s Prayer together.


House of the Lord - January 2022

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The imagery of the church throughout Scripture is vast, giving us great insight into who we are as the people of God. As the New Israel of God (Gal. 6:16) finding its rest in Christ, the church is given the voice of gladness (Jer. 33:10-11) as it worships in the house of the Lord. Surely this can shape our approach to singing praises to God in weekly worship. But there’s a bit of a double meaning here. At the same time the church is being built up as a spiritual house of the Lord (1 Pet. 2:5) through Jesus Christ. This means that the covenant promises of God, all the way back to the Garden, through Noah, Abraham, Moses and David find their fulfillment in God’s relationship to Christ (Jer. 31:31-33; Matt. 26:28) and his body (Col. 1:18), the church (Gal. 3:29). God dwells in you and with you through Christ and his Spirit.

Here’s what this means: if you are in Christ, you have access at any moment to an endless tap of the joy of Christ! John 15:11 - “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” FULL JOY! Despite your circumstances, trials, losses, and persecutions, your joy may be full in Christ. In fact, it’s even through those things that Christ is stirring up in you unending joy as you share in his sufferings to the glory of God (Rom. 8:17; 1 Pet. 4:13). We don’t ignore the brokenness in and around us in this life, but we are called to rejoice in and through them with a sacrifice of praise (Heb. 13:15) as they prepare for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison (2 Cor. 4:17)! In Christ we are forgiven, accepted, and redeemed by his grace. Hallellujah, there’s JOY in the house of the Lord!

-Jonathan

House of the Lord

Written by Jonathan Smith & Phil Wickham

Lyrics: 

Verse 1
We worship the God who was
We worship the God who is
We worship the God who evermore will be
He opened the prison doors
He parted the raging sea
My God He holds the victory

Chorus
There’s joy in the house of the Lord
There’s joy in the house of the Lord today
And we won’t be quiet
We shout out Your praise
There’s joy in the house of the Lord
Our God is surely in this place
And we won’t be quiet
We shout out Your praise


Verse 2

We sing to the God who heals
We sing to the God who saves
We sing to the God who always makes a way
'Cause He hung up on that cross
Then He rose up from that grave
My God’s still rolling stones away


Bridge

We were the beggars
Now we’re royalty
We were the prisoners
Now we’re running free
We are forgiven accepted
Redeemed by His grace
Let the house of the Lord sing praise

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January 9, 2022

Join us for worship in-person and online! See our whole online landing page here or our direct livestream video link for this service here.

Sermon Passage: Rom. 14:1-15:7 - “Loving The Weak and Strong Alike”

OUTLINE:

  1. God Presents the “Weak and Strong” Categories (14:1; 15:1).

  2. Disagreements between Christians are Relative and Absolute (14:1, 14-16).

  3. Really Accepting One Another through Doctrinal Disagreements.

  4. Recognize a Disparity between Our Situation and Rome.

  5. Accept and Love the Weak and Strong Alike.

Order of Worship: Download Here

Set List:

House of the Lord
All Hail The Power of Jesus’ Name
Jesus Your Mercy
Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God
Oh How Good It Is