Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. Psalm 62:5-8 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and salvation and my glory; my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart b...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. Thank you, Father, for the privilege of being Your child. Thank you for the relationship you have given us with Yourself. The fact that You are holy, yet, still love us in our imperfection and sin is testimony to Your awesomeness. We pray that this would inspire in us an overwhelming sense of reverence ...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. Today we are celebrating and praising God for His goodness, mercy and kindness to our church body, so to that end I will be using Ps 148, as the basis for my prayer this morning (Please read Ps 148) Lord, help us, as the Psalmist did, to enthusiastically praise Your name Let all things praise Your na...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. For those of you new to our church, you might notice something is different. You can't help but notice all of these young people, with a few older folks mixed in, all dressed with same shirt sitting together. I'm troubled by this visual display of separation. Our students are largely detached from the ...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. My prayer this morning will be based off Psalm 25, a Psalm of David. To you, O Lord, we lift up our souls. We are indeed dependent upon you. Help us see that need and that reality. Help us to trust in you and you alone. Because of our faith in you, we can confidently pray and petition you for help. Gi...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. O Lord, you are our God. For you have worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness. We will exalt you, we will give thanks to your name. As we consider your word and what it says about you your works, your character we recognize so much that we have to be thankful for. We recogni...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. You have indeed given us the privilege to declare your praises and your name. It is because of your grace that we can know and tell of what you have done in your wisdom. It was according to your wisdom that you saved us. In your plan, you silenced our wisdom and efforts to save ourselves. In your w...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. How often our words seem insufficient to highlight who you are and what you have done. Yet you've given us words to read that we might learn and understand who you are and given us words to speak that we might talk of you and your great deeds. And when we consider your character and your works, we see ...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. You are the Lord, the creator, the holy one. All of your works are great and worthy of our praise. Among your many works was forming us. You created each one of us uniquely, knitting us together, naming us, appointing works for us to do you give our lives focus and purpose and meaning. All that we go...
Keep Reading Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday. You are the god of light, the god of compassion, the god of justice and mercy, the god of wrath and of grace. And you are the god who never changes. As all things around us change through birth and death, through sickness and health, through tearing down and building up you remain the same. The one w...
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