Worship: January 19th, 2014

On Sunday, January 19th, Pastor Tony continued his sermon series in I Corinthians: Life in the Household of God. He reminded us that love is the superior gift of God to the Body of Christ. Worship services on Sunday were at 8:30 and 11:00 AM.

Preaching: Rev. Tony Felich (Sermon Audio Page| Other Sermons)

Text: 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:3

[27] Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. [28] And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. [29] Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? [30] Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? [31] But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

[1] If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [2] And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [3] If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Worship Hymns:

Hymn of Adoration: #345 Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Hymn or Spiritual Songs: #699 Like a River Glorious
Hymn of Response: #529 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Dismissal Hymn: #243 Praise the Savior Now and Ever vs. 4

Additional Readings: The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q/A’s 19-21

Q. 19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
A. God, having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.

Q. 21. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
A. The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.

Full Liturgy for January 19th, 2014 (PDF)

Sermons from the Exposition of I Corinthians
(click on the link for the sermon page with audio) 

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