Sneak Peek of Jan. 30th Service

Here's a sneak peek of the service this weekend.

Note: We'll be singing an amazing new song, "All I Have is Christ." Check out a video of the song here if you are unfamiliar with it.


All I Have Is Christ from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo.

We'll be looking at the subject of belief & doubt, especially as it is portrayed for us in Genesis 15, where God reaffirms his intentions to bless Abram and through him to bless every nation on the planet. We'll look at a very strange covenant ritual (at least to our eyes) in which God takes upon himself a curse if he should fail to bring about the promised world-wide blessing in Christ.

January 30, 2011 Worship Service

20 Somethings Taco Feast

New City Church is extending an invitation to our 20-somethings to a Taco Feast & John & Heather's house this Sunday at 1:30pm.   Come with an appetite & enjoy some good company while getting to know other 20-somethings. 

Sneak Peek of Jan. 21st Service

This Sunday, we'll continue in our series of studies on "The Renewal of All Things" by looking at the next stage of God's plan of redemption. Over the last two weeks, we seen God's commitment to preserve the earth for His glorious future. Now, God sets in motion the particulars by calling, surprisingly, a 75 year old man and his barren wife in order to ultimately bless the world in Christ.

We have a great line up of songs, including...

• Better is One Day
• Sing Alleluia
• Agnus Dei
• Our Great God
• Jesus Messiah
• Revelation Song
• Thy Mercy My God

And of course, we'll enjoy communion at the Lord's Table.

January 23, 2011 Worship Service

Sneak Peek of Jan 16th Worship Service

January 16, 2010 Worship Service

Sneak Peek of Jan. 9 Worship Service

Here's a sneak peek of this week's worship service.

We'll be resuming our series over-viewing the story of Scripture.   This week's study is from the account of Noah.   Particularly, we'll dive into the issue that is very difficult for many people to process:  the Justice of God.   Isn't the fact that God is supposed to be loving exclude the idea that God could be wrathful?   Or is it possible that you cannot have one without the other?

We'll be singing...

Call to Worship

• Come Christians Join to Sing
• All Creatures of our God and King

Confession

• Lord Have Mercy

Response to the Gospel

• Thy Mercy My God

Communion

• Great is Thy Faithfulness
• How Great is our God

Offertory

• Salvation Belongs to our God

January 9, 2011 Worship Service

Assimilating Scripture

I love this quote from Eugene Peterson:

“Christians feed on Scripture.  Holy Scripture nurtures holy community as food nurtures the human body.  Christians don’t simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love….”

Do you have a plan to assimilate Scripture in 2011?   There are a number of plans available to help you do just that.   Plans that range from reading a chapter a day to 10 chapters a day, from reading the New Testament in a year, to mastering books of the Bible.  Check out this collection of reading plans to find one that fits you and your personality.  

At New City Church, we use the English Standard Version in our worship services.   You can click over here to find 10 different reading plans using the ESV. 

[HT:  Justin Taylor]

And here is a pdf of a Bible checklist in which you can check off the chapters as you read them.  [source:  Mars Hill Church]

Listening to Scripture.  Did you know that you can listen to the Bible read out loud?   Check out these resources:

Bible.is :  with options for a dramatized or normal reading + multiple languages
ESV : each chapter has an option to be read by a narrator