I just love Sunday's! Don't you? God is so good to us!

Hello my friends from beautiful Jeffersontown, Kentucky!  I just love Sunday's. Don't you?  It is so good to have the opportunity to meet together on the Lord’s Day, the first day of the week.  Sunday is the day we will study the Bible together as a congregation of the Lord's people.  When we study God’s word together our faith is stronger, our mind is sharper, and our confidence in Christ is reaffirmed after a week of life and living. 

 

We pray together on the Lord's Day.  A family that prays together stays together.  I know this sounds cliché, but true.  We want to stay together and “be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (1 Corinthians 1:10).  

 

On the Lord's Day we sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs together.  We sing without an organ, piano, a band, or an orchestra.  We sing together as a congregation making melody in our hearts to the Lord.  Some people don’t understand why we do not worship with instruments and think maybe we can’t afford the instruments or that we just don’t like the sound of instruments or that we are simply behind the times.  We sing because Jesus sung (Matthew 26:30).  We sing like Paul sang; with the spirit and with the understanding (1 Corinthians 14:15).  The church is to “speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:19).  We are to “let the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16).  In many churches today people gather because they enjoy the music, they enjoy hearing a good band perform, they want to entertain and be entertained.  “Worship” can become and for many has become more about us, what we want and what pleases us rather than what God wants or what pleases Him.  We must remember who the audience is in worship.  The audience is not us.  The audience is God. 

 

Every Sunday we share in the Lord’s Supper, the bread representing Jesus’ body, the fruit of the vine representing Jesus’ blood.  Many churches remember Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection only occasionally.  We have communion together every Sunday.  The church met to “break bread” on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7).  There is one "first day of the week" every week.  We are continuing steadfastly in the Apostles’ doctrine (Acts 2:42).  Not very difficult to understand, is it?  

 

On Sunday we will “lay something aside” giving as we have prospered as we have purposed in our hearts, not grudgingly or of necessity, but cheerfully and bountifully for the work of the church (1 Corinthians 16:1, 2 Corinthians 9:6-8). 

 

Come and let us worship God our Savior our Lord our King.

We welcome our members and our guests every Sunday at Watterson Trail.  This coming Sunday (8th) we especially welcome the American Heritage Girls and their families on “Scout Sunday.” 

 

The sermon this morning is entitled “The Power of Positive Expectation.”  Begin each day with faith, not doubt and fear.  Look for something good in everything.  Watch your words and expressions.  Associate with positive people.  Be thankful to God in advance for His blessings.