Getting Ready for Sunday: Preparing our hearts 2-10-13

This Sunday, February 10, 2013 is an important day at Grace Baptist of Paragould. It is important because any time we gather together in the name of Christ, we should recognize it as a reverent, important time. After all, one of the great gifts we received in the death and resurrection of Christ was the ability to commune with God in worship. So let’s take a look at what’s ahead, and prepare our hearts for this Sunday’s gathering.

We will gather at our normal meeting times of 9:00am for Sunday school and 10:00am for worship and study of God’s word. Pastor Gerald will be teaching from 1 John 4 on the God of love.

1 John 4 (NIV)
On Denying the Incarnation
“1 Dear friends,(A) do not believe every spirit,(B) but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.(C) 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh(D) is from God,(E) 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,(F) which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.(G)

4 You, dear children,(H) are from God and have overcome them,(I) because the one who is in you(J) is greater than the one who is in the world.(K) 5 They are from the world(L) and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.(M) This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth(N) and the spirit of falsehood.(O)

God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another,(P) for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God(Q) and knows God.(R) 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.(S) 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son(T) into the world that we might live through him.(U) 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us(V) and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.(W) 11 Dear friends,(X) since God so loved us,(Y) we also ought to love one another.(Z) 12 No one has ever seen God;(AA) but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.(AB)

13 This is how we know(AC) that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.(AD) 14 And we have seen and testify(AE) that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.(AF) 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,(AG) God lives in them and they in God.(AH) 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.(AI) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(AJ) 17 This is how love is made complete(AK) among us so that we will have confidence(AL) on the day of judgment:(AM) In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,(AN) because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19 We love because he first loved us.(AO) 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister(AP) is a liar.(AQ) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,(AR) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(AS) 21 And he has given us this command:(AT) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.(AU)

Here you’ll find some related scripture to help prepare you heart for this Sunday: Matt 7:15, 1John 2:18, John 1:14; 1John 2:23, 1John 2:18, Romans 8:31, Romans 5:8-10, 1John 2:5, Ephesians 3:12, 1John 2:7

Songs we will sing together include: Just click on the song for the lyrics.

• 10,000 Reasons – by Matt Redman
• Your Love O Lord – by Third Day
• Man of Sorrows – by Sovereign Grace Music
• In Loving Kindness Jesus Came– by Charles H. Gabriel
• In Christ Alone– by Keith Getty
• Love Came Down (communion) – by Brian Johnson

Something to think about : Jesus was and is the very embodiment of the kindness, love, and mercy of God.
“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.-“  Titus 3:4-5.

Hope to see you this Sunday.

– Jared

Getting Ready for Sunday: Preparing our hearts 2-3-13

This Sunday, February, 3, 2013 is an important day at Grace Baptist of Paragould. It is important because any time we gather together in the name of Christ, we should recognize it as a reverent, important time. After all, one of the great gifts we received in the death and resurrection of Christ was the ability to commune with God in worship. So let’s take a look at what’s ahead, and prepare our hearts for this Sunday’s gathering.

We will gather at our normal meeting times of 9:00am for Sunday school and 10:00am for worship and study of God’s word. Pastor Gerald will be teaching from Deuteronomy 7:6-11  on remembering the faithfulness of God.

-Deuteronomy 7:6-11(ESV)
⁶ “For ^(A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be^(B)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. ⁷ It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but ^(C)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping ^(D)the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, ^(E)the faithful God ^(F)who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, ¹⁰ and ^(G)repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. ^(H)He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. ^11 (I)You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

Here you’ll find some cross reference scripture to help prepare you heart for this Sunday: Dig a little. Know God more. Click Here.

Songs we will sing together include: Just click on the song for the lyrics.

• Stronger– by HillSong
• Behold Our God – by Sovereign Grace Music
• Rock of Ages – by Augustus Toplady, Sojourn Music
• Blessed Assurance – by Fanny J. Crosby
• The Solid Rock– by Edward Mote
• All The Way My Savior Leads Me – by Christ Tomlin

We’ll be singing Stronger congregationally, so give it a listen. Great lyrics.

Hope to see you this Sunday.

– Jared

Getting Ready for Sunday: Preparing our hearts 1-27-13

This Sunday, January, 27, 2013 is an important day at Grace Baptist of Paragould. It is important because any time we gather together in the name of Christ, we should recognize it as a reverent, important time. After all, one of the great gifts we received in the death and resurrection of Christ was the ability to commune with God in worship. So let’s take a look at what’s ahead, and prepare our hearts for this Sunday’s gathering.

We will gather at our normal meeting times of 9:00am for Sunday school and 10:00am for worship and study of God’s word. Pastor Gerald will be teaching from Luke 18:1-8 on the need for persistence in prayer.

Here you’ll find some related scripture to help prepare you heart for this Sunday: Matthew 6:5-17, Luke 18:9-14, and Luke

Songs we will sing together include: Just click on the song for the lyrics.

• Hail The Day – by Sovereign Grace Music
• Revelation Song – by Kari Jobe
• Thy Holy Spirit, Lord Alone – by Jared Risner
• Now Why This Fear – by Sovereign Grace Music
• Speak, O Lord– by Keith Getty
• What A Friend We Have In Jesus – by Joseph Scriven

If you would like to hear a few of these songs, check out the videos below.

Now Why This Fear

Speak, O Lord

Hope to see you this Sunday.

– Jared

Getting Ready for Sunday: Preparing our hearts 1-20-13

This Sunday, January, 13, 2013 is an important day at Grace Baptist of Paragould. It is important because any time we gather together in the name of Christ, we should recognize it as a reverent, important time. After all, one of the great gifts we received in the death and resurrection of Christ was the ability to commune with God in worship. So let’s take a look at what’s ahead, and prepare our hearts for this Sunday’s gathering.

We will gather at our normal meeting times of 9:00am for Sunday school and 10:00am for worship and study of God’s word. Pastor Gerald will be teaching about the sanctity of life. We’ll be look at several passages.

Here you’ll find some related scripture to help prepare you heart for this Sunday: Gen 1:27, Ex 4:11, Ps 119:73 & Isaiah 49:5

Songs we will sing together include: Just click on the song for the lyrics.

• Praise to The Lord, The Almighty – by Christy Nockels
• All Creatures of Our God and King – by David Crowder
• God of Wonders – by Third day
• Great is Thy Faithfulness – by Thomas Chisholm
• How Great Thou Art– by Stuart Hine
• When I Survey The Wondrous Cross – by Issac Watts

If you would like to hear a few updated versions of these rich old hymns, check out the Page CXVI video below. If you like what you hear, click on the lion image below the video to go to their website for some free music, and info on how to support the modern hymn movement.

Hope to see you this Sunday.

– Jared