Sundays with Westminster 8.17.14

So, we made it to our second Sunday in a row. Little Bit did well, but we didn't push our luck and went to visit the nursery as the choir rose to sing.

Today's sermon was one of my favorites from our pastor! Maybe it was just something I needed to hear. Maybe I just miss a good soul searching invitational to come to Christ. (I did grow up Pentecostal. :-) Either way, the words were true and food for my soul.

The verses for today come from I Samuel were God calls to young Samuel. He calls his name three times, and each time Samuel goes to Eli, thinking that Eli has summoned him. Samuel did not yet know God, and thus he did not understand that God was talking to him.

Many of us know God, but still don't hear Him speaking. What is our excuse? Are we spiritually babes in Christ or have we been overwhelmed by the busy of this world? Have we suffered and find it hard to see God's hand in our lives, and therefore stopped looking?

Maybe it's time to say, "Speak, Lord, For Your Servant Hears."

Today's sermon: Providential Intersections - Speak, For Your Servant Hears (click link to listen)
I Samuel 3:1-14, 19-21
Rev. Mike Allen
Westminster Presbyterian Church, EPC

Also, today we sang one of my favorites hymns by Charles Wesley.  Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - Charles Wesley
Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heav'n, to earth come down;
Fix in us Thy humble dwelling, All Thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, Pure, unbounded love Thou art;
Visit us with Thy salvation, Enter ev'ry trembling heart.

Breath, O breathe Thy loving Spirit, Into every troubled breast!
Let us all in Thee inherit; Let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty.

Come, Almighty to deliver, Let us all Thy life receive;
Suddenly return and never, Nevermore Thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing, Serve Thee as thy hosts above,
Pray and praise Thee without ceasing, Glory in Thy perfect love.

Finish then Thy new creation, Pure and spotless let us be;
Let us see Thy great salvation, Perfectly restored in Thee:
Changed from glory into glory, Till in heav'n we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before Thee, Lost in wonder, love and praise!


In Christ!
From One Saved Sinner to the Next