What a joy to bring two more men onto our diaconate this past Sunday!The office of deacon is an office marked first and foremost by service. Godly men are called by God and gifted to fill this office. We first see the office in the New Testament churchin Acts 6. Men were selected from among the members of the church"men of good repute, full of the Spirit and wisdom" (Acts ...
Keep ReadingClick here forthis week's order of worship. Join us for Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m. this Sunday at Lipscomb Elementary! Lipscomb is located at 8011 Concord Rd, Brentwood, TN 37027. We will consider Psalm 18 in Sunday School this week.Our sermon text for this Sunday will be Revelation 21:18, A New Home. Our first Scripture Lesson will be Ezekiel 37:...
Keep ReadingClick here forthis week's order of worship. Join us for Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m. this Sunday at Lipscomb Elementary! Lipscomb is located at 8011 Concord Rd, Brentwood, TN 37027. We will continue our study of the Psalms in Sunday School with Psalm 11.Our sermon text for this Sunday will be Revelation 17, Satan's Counterfeit Kingdom. Our first Scrip...
Keep ReadingFrom time to time in the history of the Church, and especially for the American Church in the past century, the question has arisen: What is the mission of the Church? This is a vital question for us to answersince it will drive our focus as an outward facing church. Ordinarily, the opposing sides in the discussion wrestle between seeing the Church's mission in the world a...
Keep ReadingClick here forthis week's order of worship. Join us for Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m. this Sunday at Lipscomb Elementary! Lipscomb is located at 8011 Concord Rd, Brentwood, TN 37027. We will consider Psalm 17 in Sunday School this week.Our sermon text for this Sunday will be Revelation 20:715, The Last Battle. Our first Scripture Lesson will be Ezekiel...
Keep ReadingClick here forthis week's order of worship. Join us for Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m. this Sunday at Lipscomb Elementary! Lipscomb is located at 8011 Concord Rd, Brentwood, TN 37027. We will consider Psalm 16 in Sunday School this week.Our sermon text for this Sunday will be Revelation 20:16, The Kingdom of God Is at Hand. Our first Scripture Lesson wi...
Keep ReadingOne of the most common reflections we hear on our worship from visitors is how much Scripture is read. Most of the time this is said with a sense of happy surprise. We have a first reading that takes us through a book of the Bible (what is called lectio continuareading), a Psalm or two as we work through the Psalter once every three years, and the sermon text as we preach ...
Keep ReadingClick here forthis week's order of worship. Join us for Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m. this Sunday at Lipscomb Elementary! Lipscomb is located at 8011 Concord Rd, Brentwood, TN 37027. We will consider Psalm 15 in Sunday School this week.Our sermon text for this Sunday will be Revelation 19:1121, Faithful and True. Our first Scripture Lesson will be Ezek...
Keep ReadingMany worship styles exist in modern Christianity, even within conservative, Bible-believing congregations. Reformed worship, however, tends to bedialogical, meaning that our service is structured as a back-and-forth dialogue between God and his people. God speaks to us through his Word, our pastors, and the sacraments. We collectively speak to him through our songs and pra...
Keep ReadingClick here forthis week's order of worship. Join us for Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m. this Sunday at Lipscomb Elementary! Lipscomb is located at 8011 Concord Rd, Brentwood, TN 37027.Our sermon text for this Sunday will be Revelation 19:610, The Almighty Reigns. Our first Scripture Lesson will be Ezekiel 34, and our Psalm reading will be Psalm 136. We ...
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