John

Let’s pray once again as we come to God’s Word. O, great God of heaven, wherever we are right now, help us to hear Your Word. We may be a block from this church or somewhere in Mecklenburg County, or in South Carolina or Colorado or Michigan or Britain or Lebanon or Nepal. Speak through […]

O gracious God, You are always leading us, even when we don’t know where we are going, even when we can’t feel that You are near, You are still leading us. So lead us now as we come to Your Word, show us Your glory, remind us of Your love. May we have ears to […]

Let’s pray. We give thanks you to, O Lord, with our whole hearts, and we bow at Your throne and give thanks to Your Name for Your steadfast love and Your faithfulness. For You have exalted about all things Your Name and Your Word. Give us ears, we pray. Give us minds, give us hearts, […]

To whom shall we go, Lord? You have the words of eternal life. So open our minds, give us humble hearts, give us concentration, give us grace to hear, to listen, to live according to Your Word. In Jesus we pray. Amen. I invite you to turn in your Bibles to the Gospel according to […]

Let’s pray. Oh, great God, give us now eyes and ears that we may hear your word and see your Son. Be gracious to us and bless us. Help us to listen and understand, to trust and obey, to see and to savor Christ. We want to know Him who is before all ages, world […]

Let’s pray. Lord, have mercy on us. We are so often blind to spiritual things. Help us to see. We have trouble hearing Your voice, so help us to listen. We are easily distracted, so help us to focus. We are quick to doubt; give us faith. We are slow to understand; give us knowledge. […]

Let’s pray. Worthy is the lamb, worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive glory and majesty and power and dominion. Oh, Christ, you are all we have. And some of us come this morning feeling like we have much, but in truth you’re all that will last, all that will save. Others come […]

Let’s pray as we come to God’s Word. Our Father in heaven, we believe Your promise, that though You oppose the proud, You will give grace to the humble. And so we ask that we would not be counted among the proud this morning, both the preacher and the hearers. We do not want to […]

O Father of all good gifts, give us now ears to hear Your Word, minds to understand, eyes to see the truth, hearts to believe. We pray this in the strong name of Jesus Christ, our risen and coming King. Amen. We come this morning to John chapter 20; hopefully you will have a Bible […]

Let’s pray. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. And […]

Well, you may not realize it from week to week in the sanctuary because you’re facing this way and I’m facing that way, but there’s a big clock in the back that tells me when I’m supposed to be done, so that’s the bad news. The good news is I have a bright sun shining […]

Let’s pray. Great and gracious Father of Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Grant now that we may see Jesus and know His love and feel His mercy and marvel at His power and believe in His name, to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God be honor and glory forever and ever. […]

Our heavenly Father, we come to you now knowing, singing, believing, confessing, that You are great. We come to you knowing that You are for us, not against us. If You did not spare your own Son but freely gave Him up for us all, how will You not also with Him graciously give us […]

Let’s pray. Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. But in these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of […]

Let’s pray. O Lord, you are good and do good. Teach me, teach us, Your statutes. The insolent smear us with lies, but with our whole hearts, we keep Your precepts. Their heart is unfeeling like fat, but we delight in Your law. It is good for us that we were afflicted, that we might […]

Our Father in heaven, we ask now that You give us grace that we may hear You and not be hearers only, but doers of the Word, that we would learn, that we would listen, that we would know the grace of Christ, and that we would be empowered to follow Him. We pray in […]