Romans 12:1-2 Introduction Few issues get Christians as worked up as their personal preferences when it comes to worship. There is a reason why people call it the worship wars. There is your side, there are the people who are worn, and there is a battle to be won. We often think of worship as…
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For the last number of years, we have started our services with a Psalm. That’s not unusual as many churches do that. But it is more common to pick through the Psalms and find one we like. We have been going right through the Psalms from 1 to 150. There are a couple of reasons…
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1 Corinthians 14:1-19 Introduction Do you enjoy traditional worship? Before you answer that, we better be clear on what we mean traditional. At this point in time after months of online services, any in-person worship taking place in a church building, no matter how recent the songs, may feel like traditional worship. But perhaps you…
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I hate wearing masks. There I said it. It is such a relief when I get back to the car after being in the grocery store and rip that mask off. But I still wear a mask. We will be attempting to return to in-person worship services in the church building. We will also be…
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Psalm 102 Introduction How does one recognize a person as a Christian? I’m not referring to following certain rules, wearing Christian t-shirts or speaking in Christianese. Is there a way to recognize that someone is in relationship with God? For some, the answer is clear: look for God’s blessings. Is the person obviously blessed by…
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Psalm 100 Introduction An important part of our church mission statement is that we are a people worshiping God in Jesus Christ. I don’t think that there is anything controversial about that. I would be surprised if someone tuned into this worship service and was shocked that we were worshiping God. But what does worship…
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Sometimes when we attend a worship service, we hear our favourite song sung and performed beautifully. We feel blessed. But what if that doesn’t happen and we feel as if we didn’t get anything out of worship? There have been times that I have visited a church on my Sunday off and I either didn’t…
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On Easter Sunday (April 12) we will be celebrating communion online. This is different for us but this is a season where everything is different. You can watch a video of Amanda and I explaining how we are going to do it. Basically, you can do communion however you want. You just need bread (or…
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What do you think of when you hear the word “worship”? If you are like me, you probably think of music. But worship is so much more than music. In fact, in the Old Testament the emphasis is not on music at all. In the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy), the word “worship” appears fifty times in the…
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Because of the current pandemic, the leadership of the church has agreed to suspend Sunday morning gatherings for March 22-29. This doesn’t mean that we will not be worshiping or learning from the Bible. We will be switching to an online only version of our worship service. Not only will there be a sermon, there…
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Ephesians 5:15-20 Introduction The mission statement for Queen Street Baptist Church says “We are a welcoming community, growing spiritually, worshiping God in Jesus Christ and sharing God’s saving love.” The third part of that says that we exist to worship. There is nothing controversial about a worshiping church. It is something that we just take…
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John 4:19-24 Introduction Have you ever heard of the worship wars? This is a phrase that is used to describe conflict within churches over styles of worship music. It was more intense a number of decades ago but still exists to a certain extent today. Basically, there were people who felt that the traditional hymns…
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Psalm 100 Introduction What is it that we are doing here? What do we call this time together? It’s not a Bible study, even though we read the Bible and hopefully learn something from it. It is not fellowship time, although we enjoy being around each other and we are seeking to build community. It…
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