Family Worship

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.

Rest in Christ's resurrection involves receiving God’s provision to meet our needs as we simply hear and obey him.

We daily choose between true joy by trusting in Christ's resurrection or inevitably being let down by placing our highest trust in rival pretenders.

Sometimes what can be hard to understand or accept as spoken words becomes much clearer when we experience Jesus provide for a very physical need.

Jesus' resurrection brings a new creation in which Sabbath peace comes not only at the end, but also at the beginning.

Lead your family into obeying the resurrected Jesus’ central command to his followers—“Rejoice!”

Easter season teaches us the discipline of celebration.

Surrender to God's will in Holy Week is the path to celebrating God's victory on Easter.