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Worship Fest – Reflections

Paula — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:21 +0000

(February 13, 2011 – Kim Pierrot)

Come Let Us Worship And Bow Down

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:15:40 +0000

(Feb 7, 10 – Mike Nichols)
During January we explored worship of our awesome God (Isaiah 40). Iain Provan taught us two major concepts when it comes to worship—that we gather to remember God’s goodness through participative reading, confessing, singing, praying, and communion and one of the purposes of gathered worship is to equip you to live your life to the glory of God Monday through Saturday.

As we gather for worship today consider these scriptures: Eph. 2:12: remember that at that time you were separate from Christ … without hope and without God in the world.” I Cor. 11 24-26:”This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁵In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” ²⁶For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” Gal. 2:10 “All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.” 2 Cor. 9:6 “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”

Worship in the Early Church and Today

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:06:32 +0000

(Jan 17, 10 – Ian Provan)
How did the worship of the early church reflect the teaching of Romans 12:1-2?
We bring our lives as a daily offering of worship to the Servant King. That’s what one of our opening songs said; and that’s what Christian worship is. And as we saw last week, what we do together on a Sunday morning in our Church services is part of that worship, and it is designed to help us in that worship. This morning we’re going to be reflecting, then, on Sunday morning worship itself. We’re going to be using the practice of the early church as our lens; because we are of course the inheritors of a great worship tradition. We didn’t just make up the stuff we do on Sunday mornings; we have inherited it from the past. And it will do us good, I think, to examine that past and see what we can learn from it.

There is no audio recording for this sermon. Download a PDF of the sermon notes here.

Work as Worship – Lin Langley

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:48:27 +0000

(Jan 10, 10 – Mike Nichols & Lin Langley)
Mike Nichols interview with Lin Langley on the topic of work as ministry and worship. This interview is a companion to a sermon delivered by Ian Provan: Worship as a Lifestyle.

Worship as a Lifestyle (Romans 12)

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:06:09 +0000

(Jan 10, 10 – Iain Provan)
Our goal during the month of January is to explore and expand our authentic worship responses to God when we are gathered. We want to set a tone of community involvement and engagement in worship to counter the cultural trend to be spectators. Our God is an awesome God and coming to worship includes each person offering themselves and their Spirit given contributions to the worship. Our schedule looks like this:

Each week in response to the scripture you will have an opportunity to contribute to our worship in a variety of ways. So I encourage you to ask God prior to the Sundays of this month what He has for you to bring to our worship.

Come Let Us Worship

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:30:22 +0000

(Jan 3, ’10 – Mike Nichols)
Why a teaching series on worship at CapChurch? Often when churches do a sermon series on worship the result is more information on worship and little in the way of expanding our ―worship habits—i.e. our ways of responding to God as a gathered community. Each of us at Cap come to community worship not only with a
personal history of responding to God, but with a certain ―worship habit‖—a way of entering into community life and into worship. One of our goals in this series is to encourage us individually and as a community to explore and expand our authentic responses to God in worship. Our God is worthy of all we have to give in worship. Our worship recognizes God for who He is and invites us to come as we are to experience God‘s closeness and His majesty.

This series will include teaching and varied experiences to free us to bring all we are to God. Our prayer is that Cap will be reinvigorated in this time so that all of 2010 as a gathered community will be an experience of bowing down before our Lord and Maker and experiencing His care—for he is our God and we are His people.