Preparing for Sunday

Come Ready to Worship

Each week, we provide the following resources to help you spiritually prepare for communal worship. Investing time in preparation will enable you to grow and worship God more deeply during the Sunday Service. Resources for the upcoming Sunday are available by Saturday morning.

<font color="#ff6600">The Battle of Blessings&nbsp;</font>

The Battle of Blessings 

This Sunday, we’ll be looking at a surprising kind of spiritual battleground—one we often overlook: the battle that comes with blessings. In Genesis 13, both Abram and Lot are blessed materially, but what unfolds reveals that prosperity is not just a gift—it’s a test. Blessings, like suffering, shape us. They present temptations, demand choices, and ultimately reveal who or what we worship. As we walk through this chapter, we’ll explore how Abram’s choices—marked by faith, patience, and worship—stand in stark contrast to Lot’s worldly pursuit. The question we’ll ask together is this: What do the blessings in your life reveal about your devotion, your discernment, and your worship of God? Soli Deo Gloria! 

Big Idea: Blessings test of our devotion, discernment, and worship of God. What do the blessings in your life reveal? 

1. Blessings present temptations 

2. Blessings require choices

3. Blessings produce worship


<span style="color:var(--secondary-color-bg)">Preparation Questions: Genesis 13:1-18</span>

Preparation Questions: Genesis 13:1-18

1. When you consider the most important blessings in your life, how are you tempted to (1) want more and (2) forget about God as the gift giver? Why are these temptations so dangerous? 

2. What choices have you made with the blessings in your life that have led you away, rather than closer, to God (career choices, educational pursuits, financial decisions, etc.)? What impact has this had on your faith? 

3. How did Abram wait on the Lord? How did he worship? In what ways has God called you to wait and worship in the midst of your blessings? Are you? 

4. How did the work of Christ on the cross equip us to wait and worship regardless of our circumstances? Does the gospel have this power in your life? 

Sunday Songs

You can listen to our musical lineup for the Sunday Service using the YouTube links or the Spotify Playlist below.

Praise to the Lord, The Almighty

Whate'er My God Ordains Is Right

Be Still My Soul

Almost Home

Christ the Sure and Steady Anchor

I Will Wait for You (Psalm 130)

<span style="color:var(--tertiary-color-bg)">Song Highlight: <i>I Will Wait For You (Psalm 130)</i></span>

Song Highlight: I Will Wait For You (Psalm 130)

This week’s hymn highlight is I Will Wait For You (Psalm 130) by Matt Merker. As you can see from the subtitle, it is based on Psalm 130 which is probably the most well known of the Psalms of Ascent. The Psalm starts with a crying out to God that He would hear our prayer and our petitions amid our sorrows. Yet one quickly becomes aware of our unworthiness to enter into the presence of a Holy God. As the Psalmist writes in v.3 “If You, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?” (ESV). For all of us have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. No one can enter into His throne room on our own merit. But God, being rich in mercy, grants us forgiveness through the blood of Christ so that we may be welcomed into His presence and can bring our petitions before Him. In light of this forgiveness, the Psalmist then declares that he will “wait for the Lord” and hope in His word. The Psalmist wrote this in anticipation for when God would restore Israel from all their iniquities and bring about a plentiful redemption.  

The Psalmist, trusting in the promises of God, wrote looking forward to the Messiah to come. We read this Psalm looking back at the Messiah who came to free us from our sins. And we sing this Psalm-based hymn in eager anticipation of when He will come again to make all things new for His true people. We put our hope and trust in the promises found in His word for we know that He is faithful and true. In Him there is “steadfast love and… plentiful redemption” (v.7 ESV). He has been faithful to redeem us from our sins and has given us the hope of restoration to come. So until then, we wait, we hope, and delight in the love that He has so graciously lavished upon us.  

Sunday Service

Praise to the Lord the Almighty

Call to Worship: Psalm 67:1-7

Whate'er My God Ordains Is Right

Be Still My Soul

Confession: Deut 8:10-14a

Assurance: Psalm 32:1-2, 5

Almost Home

Offering: James 1:16-18

Keach’s Catechism: Q&A 112

Reading: Genesis 13:1-18

The Battle of Blessings

Communion: Isaiah 53:7-11

Christ the Sure and Steady Anchor

Eat & Drink: Matthew 26:23-30

I Will Wait For You (Psalm 130)

Benediction: Hebrews 13:20-21

This Sunday

Sunday Prayer

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Sunday Service

10:40 AM - 12:15 PM

Hosted Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

CCC Students

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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