Q-A Session with Dr. Willborn

David and Jonathan had covenanted because God is a covenant God. As David shows covenant love to Mephibosheth, we see God's covenant love to us in Christ.

It is Jesus who brings us to faith. It is Jesus who grows us in faith. And His means for doing that is especially His Word- read, sung, prayed, and especially preached in public, family, and private worship.

Dr. C. N. Willborn summarizes the Lord Jesus's plan for public worship- worshiping according to the Holy Spirit's prescription, in dependence upon the Holy Spirit's power, and being filled with Holy Spirit pleasure.

Dr. C. N. Willborn takes us on a brisk survey of how Christ, the one Lord of the Church, and the Head and Savior of the Body, has graciously prospered and preserved the Hopewell ARP Church as part of His bride.

Grace. All that God is -righteous, powerful, good- for all that we are -guilty, weak, wicked-. Mercy. The removal of our misery by God's commitment to doing us good. Peace. The steady continuance to us of our total wellbeing, from God's grace and mercy. We are assured of the fact that these will be ours from Christ because of the fact that there is love for God and His church in us, which love has also come from Christ.

The Holy Spirit and the devil are at war. Wherein does this battle rage- Not in the stuff of movies but in the stuff of everyday life- congregational life and worship, marriage, parenting, and vocation. But in these six verses specifically, we see the necessity of both -putting off- and -putting on- in godly speech, godly anger, and godly labor.

A study of chapter 2 of Dr. McGraw's -The Day of Worship-- The Importance of God's Day of Worship. The Sabbath is about what God set it apart FOR, not about what God set it apart FROM. And He highlights, throughout Scripture, just how serious He is about its holiness.

Much real misery comes from believers' folly and sins. In God's good and wise providence, much rests upon principled rejection of worldliness and faithful initiative in our duties.

No one who truly encounters Christ finds Him boring. How strongly are you responding to the Lord Jesus- Pastor leads his family in today's -Hopewell -Home- passage. In these eighteen verses, we learn that if we are truly encountering Christ, we will respond either with profound terror or profound comfort, joy, gratitude, love, service, and witness.