1/22/23 Worship Service and Sermon

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Worship Leader: Dave Stoltzfus

Sermon: Steve Estes

Order of Worship:

• Call to Worship: Luke 15: 11-14, 17, 20-24; Luke 18:35-43

• Prayer

• Hymn #460 "Amazing Grace"

• Call to Confession: Isaiah 43; Prayer

• The Gospel: Isaiah 43; Song "His Mercy is More"; Hymn #82 "Great God of Wonders"; Prayer

• Our Gospel Response: Hymn #345 "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken"; Song "Christ Our Hope in Life and Death"; Song "Amazing Grace"

• Sermon Grace Upon Grace: John 1:16-18

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth...From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Notes:

1. We can love Jesus because we've all received "grace upon grace" (Jn 1:16)
A. Literally "grace instead of grace"
B. Two ideas of grace
C. Think of your life

2. We can love Jesus because we've received grace from His fullness
A. Illustration: Engine trouble on the road
B. Jesus has infinite fullness

3. We can love Jesus because what He brought us far exceeds what former believers experienced
A. Nothing wrong with the Law given through Moses
B. What Jesus taught and did is vastly superior
C. "Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ"

4. We should love Jesus because He alone can make the Father known to us
A. Jesus is "at the Father's side" (Jn 1:18)
B. Jesus is called "The only GOD who is at the Father's side"
C. Jesus is called "the only God

Benediction:

Now to Him who loved us and washed us with His blood be eternal praise, and to you who believe be eternal grace and joy. Amen.

7/31/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Being Mindful of the Wonder of the Gospel - Colossians 1:13-14

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7/31/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Andrew Hageman
Speaker: David Royes
Title: Being Mindful of the Wonder of the Gospel
Scripture: Colossians 1:13-14

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Notes:

1. The Terror of Being Lost
a. Spiritual enslavement is real.

2. The Centrality of Jesus Himself
a. Joy in God's Son
b. Fruit for God's Son
c. Union with God's Son

3. The often-overlooked means

3/6/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Responding to Calamity - Esther 4

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3/6/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: Andrew Hageman
Title: Responding to Calamity
Scripture: Esther 4

Main Points

1. Mordecai's Grief -- Feeling responsible for the coming calamity
2. Esther's Dilemma -- Contemplating responsibility to avert calamity
3. Esther's Response -- Living out faith as a sacrifice for many

Conclusion and Application

1. God's silence is not evidence of His absence.
a. God's sovereignty is much bigger than us.

2. The Bible's response to grief and difficulty is to turn our eyes upon God.
a. We can come boldly before the throne of God in our grief.

3. Esther's choice may be upon us.
a. Ask God to prepare us to sacrifice for the sake of Christ.

4. Only by Christ's power can we ever follow in Esther's footsteps
a. Christ is the true and better Esther, making atonement before the throne of God on behalf of all believers.

#Purim #calamity #Esther #responsibility

2/27/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Israel Asks for a King - 1 Samuel 8

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2/27/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Mike Culbert
Speaker: Joe Whalen
Title: Israel Asks for a King
Scripture: 1 Samuel 8

Notes:

vv. 1-3: As the faithful judge Samuel becomes old, the Israelites don’t want his corrupt sons to succeed him.
vv. 4-6a: The Israelites demand a king, like their neighbors had.
vv. 6b-9: …and God tells him to give them a king, but with a warning.
vv. 10-18: Samuel warns Israel what a king will do to them.
vv. 19-20: Israel rejects the warning outright.

Two truths:

1. We never just reject God; we replace Him
2. Our biggest problem is the unbelieving heart inside ourselves, not outward circumstances

Good news:

God gave us a King who paid for our sins and who adopts us into His family

#idolatry #faith #1Samuel