Songs for Sunday, August 4, 2024 @ Christ Community Church

Tomorrow is Sunday, and I’m excited!

Sometimes in the busy-ness of life, it is easy to miss the why of Sunday worship by the way it fits into our schedules and plans. Our lives are so fast-paced and chock-full of events and obligations that everything, even rest or worship has to be fit into our schedules somewhere. It’s just the way of the world.

I find myself thinking about time often. Can I fit that in with my work and ministry schedule? If I fit __ in, do I have to not do __ this week — or can I do both? If I do __, will I have time for {insert family obligation or opportunity here}? I find myself having to schedule the most important things in my life so that I do not pack in lesser things that push important things to the gutters and fringes of my calendars.

I remember the first time that the idea of scheduling a date night came to mind after Candice and I had been married a while. I thought that was the most unromantic notion to have ever popped in my head. It never occurred to me that before Candice and I were married — before the busy-ness of careers, ministries, children, etc. were a thing — Friday nights were date nights. If someone came to me with an idea or opportunity that took place on a Friday night, it was a no-go if Candice couldn’t be with me. Date night took precedence. It was a set event. It was regular.

I remember church being the same way. It was not a question of whether we would go. Sunday mornings, there. Wednesday nights, there. But now we’re so busy. So many things are vying for our time.

How do we ensure that the important things in our lives get done? We plan it. And I am challenging you to make a plan for tomorrow to be with your church family (Christ Community would love for you to join us if you do not have one) and worship Jesus!

Yes, there are a lot of things you can be doing. Your yard needs mowing, family time or rest has been neglected, it’s been a hectic week and you just need a minute, and so on and so forth. I even said above: it’s just the way of the world. Well, twice in the proverbs — that’s right, two identical times — we see:

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Proverb 14:12 & Proverb 16:23

Now, let me be clear before proceeding that I am not claiming that church attendance saves you or is necessary for salvation. Jesus saves, not church. I fully understand that being in a church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. But much like that adage is and our garages are full of, there’s some junk there as well.

You do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You don’t even have to stay home or have date nights to be married. But if you stay gone too long, the relationship is affected!

It may seem right to us to fill our schedules and bank on an old relationship status between us and the Lord even though our time and intimacy together has waned, but know this: the Lord has not moved!

So, again I challenge you: make plans to gather with God’s people and worship Him tomorrow morning! Make those plans today. Move your lesser plans out of the way. Bring your family or spouse or whomever with you.

Won’t you join us?

Here are our Scriptures and songs:

1Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. 2The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the outcasts of Israel. 3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4He determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names. 5Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; His understanding is beyond measure. 6The LORD lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked to the ground.

7Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre! 8He covers the heavens with clouds; He prepares rain for the earth; He makes grass grow on the hills. 9He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry. 10His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor HIs pleasure in the legs of a man, 11but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His steadfast love.

12Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! 13For He strengthens the bars of your gates; He blesses your children within you. 14He makes peace in your borders; He fills you with the finest of the wheat. 15He sends out His command to the earth; His Word runs swiftly. 16He gives snow like wool; He scatters frost like ashes. 17He hurls down His crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold? 18He sends out His Word, and melts them; He makes His wind blow and the waters flow. 19He declares His Word to Jacob, His statutes and rules to Israel. 20He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know His rules. Praise the LORD!

1Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2but 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. 3He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the Word of His power. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4having become as much superior to angels as the name He has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

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