Family Worship

To promote justice, the Ninth Commandment prohibits lying in court and, by extension, all destructive lying.

We patiently trust and obey God for good things instead of wrongfully taking from others.

Our faithfulness in marriage is a picture of faithfulness in the relationship between God and his people.

We must not commit willful or negligent wrongful violence against God’s image bearers.

We honor and submit to God in large part by honoring and submitting to God’s appointed human authorities.

The Fourth Commandment helps us not violate the first three commandments by instructing that we routinely renew our right relationship with God through worship, rest and festivity.

The third commandment instructs us to carry God’s name in a way that speaks truth about him rather than lies.

While the first commandment is about who to worship, the second commandment is about how to worship.

Our ultimate trust and obedience must be in the one God who already accomplished our salvation and therefore is trustworthy to fully apply it.

God’s salvation by grace alone through faith alone is not freedom from his law, but freedom for his law.

Pentecost season focuses on the slow but sure growth of the Kingdom of God.

Fitting the biblical pattern, at Pentecost the new disciples are first washed clean in baptism and, onced cleaned, come to the Lord's Table.

Repentence and baptism bring new Christians into a church community marked by practices which reveal the Spirit's work among them.

At Pentecost, Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit from heaven, and baptism is one of the pictures God gives to help us understand that gift.

Father, Son and Spirit work together at Pentecost to bring others into their eternal, joyful life of love.

The Spirit-inspired Scriptures give needed clarity about God's ongoing work.

Pentecost signals the great scope and power of the Spirit's transformation.

Pentecost season teaches us power of long and steady, slow but sure transformation by Word and Spirit.

Jesus models embodied lessons through which we tangibly experience his resurrection and ascension.

Jesus' forgiveness and commissioning of Peter are a picture of resurrection life making all things new.