Posts from June 2024
June 2024 – Call and Benediction
Call to Worship Psalm 145:1-3 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.2 Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. Psalm 145 is the last psalm bearing the superscription “of David.” None of the remaining five psalms (146-150) bear any superscription. The psalm is an acrostic and the first letter of each verse writes out the Hebrew alphabet.…
Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Lyrics The Second Coming of Christ (called the Parousia) is one of the main themes of the New Testament and yet one can hardly find a song about it fit for Christian worship. Thankfully, Charles Wesley gave us such a song in this hymn. The hymn begins with the archaic word, “Lo!” this is equivalent to the contemporary “Look!” It’s intended to get our attention and as we hear the congregation singing it, our minds should heed the command and…