Prayer & Preparation for May 26th, 2024
This Lord's Day
Hey church,
This week we get to look at another of Peter's sermons. It's a straightforward presentation of the Gospel. Please pray for lost folks to be present this Lord's Day. Please ask the Lord to lay someone on your heart to invite this week. And then start praying they come. Also pray for those who could hear the message though they aren't present, through your conversations and conversations of brothers and sisters at Calvary who are equipped with the Gospel and for Gospel conversations. It's not only I, but our whole church family who "are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that [we] may proclaim the excellencies of him who called [us] out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9).
Here are some details about this week's morning service:
Songs we'll sing: "Living Hope," "It Was Finished Upon That Cross,"
"Crown Him (Majesty)," "Christ Our Hope in Life and Death," and
"Jesus, I Am Resting, Resting"
Sermon text: Acts 3:11-26
Sermon title: "What Jesus Continued to Teach"
Cross-references: Gen 12:1-3; Deut 18:15-19; Isa 52:13-53:12; Jer 2:11-13; Luke 22:31-34, 54-62; 23:1-49; 24:1-53; John 10:10; 13:35; 17:20-26;
Acts 1:1; 2:21, 28, 38; 3:1-10; Rom. 6:15-23; 10:9-17; 1 Pet. 2:22-25; 3:15
Some quotes from my reading and study for this sermon:
"Corporate worship is designed to produce in you a greater sadness than you've felt before (sin), resulting in deeper joy than you've known before (grace), together producing more commitment to God's will than you've had before (holiness)."
Paul Tripp in Sunday Matters
"Sin is that to which naturally we cleave; the design of divine grace is to turn us from it, nay to turn us against it, that we may not only forsake it, but hate it."
Matthew Henry's Commentary
"The world is used to Christians who are alarmed, angry, fearful, despondent, grumpy. Such a posture only reinforces their complacent assumption that faith is a relic of the past which is in the process of passing away forever. I have found they are confused and intrigued by Christians who are confident, witty, and cheerful. They start to wonder if we know something they don't know about what is really true and how things are really going to turn out. And do we not? So confuse them with cheerful confidence."
T. Larsen
Love you, church!
Jeff Tague
