How Can we Get to God?

Good morning, everyone!

We’re gathered today to learn and cherish the Word of God and worship Him together. We’re so happy that you’re joining us!

Pastor Ralph leads us today in a sermon asking the question, how can we get to God?

First Song: The Solid Rock

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

1 Peter 3:8-18

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon will later be uploaded to YouTube and available on this page.

Second Song: How Firm a Foundation

Closing thought

The one who makes it his daily business to eat daily from the tree of life, will have no appetite for other fruit, even though the tree that bears them seems to stand in the midst of paradise.

John Owen

Jonah 4: Who Can Tell

Happy Sunday, church.

We continue to study the minor prophets of the Old Testament this morning, focusing on the Book of Jonah. We examine the surprising turns of the prophet’s story, which “confounds all human reason, calculation and expectation,” as Pastor Bodner puts it.

As we seek God’s purpose in our own lives, we seek also to learn more about the wisdom of God in all of its astounding power. May God give us hearts prepared to receive and trust in the truth of His Word, and worship the King it reveals.

First Song: How Deep the Father’s Love

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

Psalm 98
Proverbs 9
Colossians 4
Jonah 3

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon will later be uploaded to YouTube and available on this page.

Second Song: He Will Hold Me Fast

Closing thought

There is one political maxim which comforts me: “The Lord reigns.”

John Newton

Jonah 3: Salvation is of the Lord

Text set against weathered book pages. The text reads, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7. "

We’re glad to gather this morning to worship our God and King.

Pastor Bodner leads us further in our study of Jonah this morning, considering his importance both in the context of his time and in the wider context of the whole Bible and the unified story of redemption that is told in its pages.

First Song: Forever Jesus

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

Psalm 97
Proverbs 8
Colossians 3
Jonah 1:17-2:10

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon is later uploaded to YouTube and available on this page.

Second Song: Grace that is Greater than All Our Sin

Closing thought

True Christian liberty is not the power to live as we please but to live as we ought.

A.W. Pink

Jonah 2: From the Presence of the Lord

Happy Reformation Day!

Today is a day Protestant people and churches like Calvary remember and give thanks for the Reformation. On October 31, 1517, a law student-turned-monk called Martin Luther nailed 95 “theses” to the announcement board on the door of the church in Wittenberg (Germany). For many years, he had been struggling to understand God and how he, Martin, could be rightly related to Him. After years of intense, agonizing spiritual struggle and serious study of the Bible, these 95 Theses were Luther’s points of disagreement with the Holy Roman Catholic Church based on what he had read in the scriptures. He put forward his theses hoping to see Bible-based reforms in the doctrine and practices of the Church (which was the most powerful and wealthy institution in the world at that time). But God had other plans. Those 95 Theses became the starting point of a movement we now call the Reformation because it led to reforms in Christian doctrine and worship based on God’s Word, the Bible. And it also reformed European society, splitting Western Christianity into two branches: Catholic and Protestant. God worked through Martin Luther to change the world forever.

God worked through Jonah, too, to bring truth to darkness, and that is the subject of our sermon today, brought to us by Pastor Bodner. May we cherish the truth of God’s Word and seek Him for the courage to live boldly by it.

First Song: A Mighty Fortress is Our God

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

Proverbs 7
Colossians 2
Jonah 1:1-16, focusing on 4-16

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon will later be uploaded to YouTube and available on this page.

Second Song: Whate’er My God Ordains is Right

Closing thought

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Martin Luther

What is Communion?

We’re glad to be here with you, Calvary.

It was voted by the members last week that Pastor Ralph will serve on a part-time basis while the church begins the process of searching for a new pastor. It’s our pleasure to have Pastor Ralph oreaching from the pulpit this morning for the first time since February.

Since a communion service will follow our morning worship today, Pastor Ralph takes this opportunity to ask: what is communion? What are we doing when we take part in communion? Who should take part, and why does it matter?

First Song: To the Praise of His Glorious Grace

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

1 Corinthians 11:17-34, focusing on verses 23-26.

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon will later be uploaded to YouTube and available on this page.

Second Song: Psalm 150 (Praise the Lord)

Closing thought

We have to believe the most significant opportunity before us every day is the opportunity to sit at the feet of Jesus.

Kevin De Young

Jonah 1: From the Presence of the Lord

It’s a delight to be with you today, Calvary.

For the past few weeks, we have been looking at less well-known parts of the Old Testament and appreciating their place in the unified story of God’s Word, the Bible. Pastor Bodner takes us into the Book of Jonah today.

May God open our minds and hearts to the light of His Word.

First Song: Grace That is Greater Than All My Sin

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

Proverbs 6
Colossians 1
Jonah 1:1-16 (3,10)

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon will later be uploaded to YouTube and available on this page.

Second Song: Jesus, Strong and Kind

Closing thought

“It is a great mercy to us and to the world that we do not get all that we ask for in prayer.”

—John Piper

I Have Chosen Thee

Good morning, Happy Sunday, and Happy Thanksgiving.

We’re finishing our look at the small but powerful Book of Haggai this morning. We have looked at how the book contains a call to:

  • Action
  • Courage
  • Patience
  • Faith

The consequence of these sermons has been to broaden our understanding of God’s sovereignty and His saving purpose over:

  • His house
  • His people
  • His land
  • His world

We’re reminded that no matter how great or far-reaching our fear, God is greater still, and faith in Him casts out all fear.

First Song: Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

Proverbs 5
1 Peter 5
Haggai 2:20-23

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon is later uploaded to YouTube and made available on this page.

Second Song: My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness

Closing thought

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art – to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Martin Luther

Special Speaker: Bill Ball, SGA, “Think Thankful”

Good morning, church. We’re going to spend this morning thinking and praying about missions.

We’re fortunate to have Bill Ball of the Slavic Gospel Association (SGA) speaking with us this morning. Calvary has supported the SGA for more than ten years, and it’s been our privilege to have Bill present yearly updates to us about the mission’s work in Russia and other Slavic countries.

Please join us in praying for the important work they’re doing, and for the lives they’re impacting with the hope and light of God’s love.

First Song: Facing A Task Unfinished

Offering

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Message

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Immanuel’s Child Stars

Second Song: On Christ the Solid Rock

Closing thought

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go unwarned and unprayed for.

—C.H. Spurgeon

From This Day I Will Bless You

Good morning, Calvary family.

It’s always a good day when we get to worship God together, and we look forward to doing that with you today, whether it’s in-person, online, or both! We have so much to be thankful for. May we be increasingly mindful of the countless blessings God showers on us and be constantly seeking ways to honour Him with our lives by being a blessing to others.

We’re continuning in the lesser-known parts of the Bible today; more details about Pastor Bodner’s sermon for this morning will be posted later.

First Song: It Is Well

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

Proverbs 4
1 Peter 4
Haggai 2:10-19

You can watch our service livestreams at 11 AM on Sundays on our Facebook page. The sermon will later be uploaded to YouTube and available on this page.

Second Song: Mighty to Save

Closing thought

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life and you may be aware of three of them.

John Piper

Fear Ye Not

Good morning, Calvary family. We’re glad you’re here.

We return to less appreciated parts of the Bible this morning, looking at the Book of Haggai as we purpose to savour all of God’s Word and seek to better understand our Heavenly Father.

May God bless our worship together.

First Song: The King in All His Beauty

Offering

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Message

Scripture readings

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Proverbs 3
1 Peter 3
Haggai 2:1-9

Second Song: Ten Thousand Reasons

Closing thought

If your goals don’t require God to act, your goals are too trivial.

Tony Reinke