Worship Notes for Sunday Nov. 15, 2020 at Christ Covenant, Matthews, NC This week Christ Covenant will look at Genesis 6:1-8. What a strange and difficult passage! It causes lots of questions, and yet it also presents clear, unavoidable truths. As for questions, who are all those people and why does it sound so different […]
Worship Notes for Sunday Nov. 1, 2020 at Christ Covenant, Matthews, NC The world changes quickly. Movements come and go. Elections pass. Leaders rise and fall, as do nations. Even science presents constantly changing information. There is no lasting confidence to be had in earthly things. This year in particular has been heavy, weighed down
Worship Notes For Sunday, July 5, 2020 at Christ Covenant Church, Matthews, NC Lord, now indeed I find thy power and thine alone, can change the leper’s spots and melt the heart of stone.Jesus Paid It All, by Elvina M. Hall, 1865 The Bible proclaims and calls for the spread of God’s kingdom. However, how it spreads, and
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Worship Notes For Sunday, June 28, 2020 at Christ Covenant Church, Matthews, NC We are in the midst of a health crises, race crises, financial instability, and more. Of course, we don’t expect a complete melt down, but what would our response be if that were the case? Habakkuk knew that destruction was coming. As a prophet he was
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This month at Christ Covenant Church we are working our way through Habakkuk, which is one of my favorite books of the Bible. This week in worship I will introduce I Will Rejoice, based on Hab. 3:17-19. Part of what I love about this passage is how it prepares our hearts to give thanks even in the face
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My faith looks up to thee, thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine;Now hear me while I pray, take all my guilt away,O let me from this day be wholly thine. —Lowell Mason I need this song. Truthfully, I often look down at my own toes rather than “up to thee.” I get bogged down in the
Here’s an old song recorded with my family. We like to take it in a quasi-bluegrass vein, but it would be a great congregational song too. Enjoy! 1 I’m not ashamed to own my Lord,or to defend his cause,maintain the honor of his Word,the glory of his cross. 2 Jesus, my God! I know his
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