Visiting Our Church Worship 

Corporate Confession of Sin: “It’s so ritualistic!”

I’ve heard comments – mostly negative – about our Corporate Confession of Sin in our worship service. “It’s not from the heart.” “It’s ritualistic.” “It doesn’t bless me.” “It’s too Catholic.” To these, I refer to a short post at Monergism.com. Corporate worship, as our local church understands it, is a time of joyful covenantal renewal which includes confession of sin, assurance of pardon, responsive prayers, corporate song, the preaching of the gospel and the covenantal climax of communion in the Lord’s Supper. To be frank, I previously never thought…

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Good Friday 

Joint Good Friday Service

  Big Springs Community Church invites everyone to our Joint Good Friday Service with Montague Reformation Church and Lake Shastina Community Bible Church. Date and Time: April 14, 2017 • 6:00 PM Place: Big Springs Community Church, 7220 Highway A12, Montague, CA 96064 Contact No.: 530.598.7584 The service will have seven Scripture lessons, followed by a meditation and song on each lesson. Each Lesson and Song takes us from an Old Testament prophecy about the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ to its fulfillment in the New Testament.…

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Colossians Easter Sermons 

Easter Sunday Service April 16, 2017

Join us to worship the Risen Christ, who was raised for our justification, so we may walk in newness of life. Time and Date: 10:30 AM, April 16, 2017 Sermon Title: “You Have Been Raised with Christ” Scripture Texts: Psalm 27:3-4; Colossians 3:1-4 Sermon Outline: “Seek the Things That are Above” “Your Life is Hidden with Christ” “You Will Also Appear with Him in Glory”  

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Worship 

Pastoral Prayer Based on Our Lord’s Prayer

  Today, I used the Lord’s Prayer as a pattern of the long prayer in our worship service. The Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 116 gives us a summary of why prayer is necessary for Christians: Q. Why is prayer necessary for Christians? A. Because it is the chief part of thankfulness which God requires of us, and because God will give His grace and Holy Spirit only to those who earnestly and without ceasing ask them of Him, and render thanks unto Him for them. And this is the prayer that our Lord Jesus…

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Worship 

Liturgy for Thanksgiving Sunday, November 23, 2014

  Welcome and Announcements We Come with Thankful Hearts Call to Worship: Psalm 95:1-7 Opening Prayer of Thanksgiving God’s Greeting: 1Timothy 1:2; 1Peter 1:2 Hymn of Praise: “We Gather Together” #387:1-3 (Brown) We Give Thanks for God’s Creation and Gifts to Us Scripture Reading: Psalm 19:1-6 Prayer of Thanksgiving Hymn of Praise: “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come” #392:1-4 (Brown) We Give Thanks for Salvation Scripture Reading: Psalm 103:1-14 Prayer of Thanksgiving Hymn of Praise: “Now Thank We All Our God” #525:1-3 (Brown) We Give Thanks for Family and Society Scripture…

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