Worship Round-Up (June 28, 2015)

a weekly review of Sunday worship to provide resource and further reflection from our Sunday service.

Sermon

"An Approved Worker"

Bob Schaus

2 Timothy 2:14-26

Listen to sermon audio here

The overall message of the service yesterday between the preaching from 2 Timothy and the music we sang together was being approved workers for God's kingdom. We sang songs of God's worth-- O for a thousand; Behold Our God. We also asked for God's work to be done through us- Give us clean hands; What Love Is. While remembering that we are not working for our own sake because our worth is found in Christ and not in our earthly work. We choose not to sing song's completely focused on our actions and what we are promising to do. We aim to focus on what Christ has already done and how that motivates us to do His will. This is very recognizable in "What Love Is". In a day when "love" is watered down and is only motivated by love itself, we see that we only know how to love and what love truly is because we've read how Jesus laid down his life. (See 1 John 4 for more) It is out of that great truth that we then continue on singing-- because we know what love is, let us lay down our own lives for others.

Music

O For a Thousand Tongues
by Charles Wesley

What Love Is
by Joel Lindsey 
Listen on Bandcamp

Give Us Clean Hands
by Charlie Hall


My Worth is Not in What I Own
by Graham Kendrick | Keith Getty | Kristyn Getty
Listen on YouTube

Behold Our God

by Jonathan Baird | Meghan Baird | Ryan Baird | Stephen Altrogge
Listen on YouTube

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Austin Hilmer

About the Author:
Austin serves on staff at Westchester as Associate Pastor of Corporate Worship