Kingdom Faith or Mere Tradition?

Midway through Matthew’s Gospel, Pharisees and scribes travel from Jerusalem to confront Jesus about the way His disciples break with their traditions. Jesus turns the tables on them and reveals how they have broken God’s commandments for the sake of their traditions, and then He teaches the crowds and the disciples that it is the condition of the heart, not the washing of hands that God is most concerned with. Join Pastor Matt as he helps us look at what God truly desires for us and from us. (34:41)

Our Sunday morning worship services are comprised of verse-by-verse Bible teaching, Christ-centered worship and a time of congregational prayer. Gather with us in-person at 9 or 11 am or online at 10 am on Sunday morning, or watch anytime, at thevillagechapel.com.

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Songs:

(2:32) “I Stand Amazed (How Marvelous)” by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690

(10:21) “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” by Samuel Stennett & Christopher Miner
© 1997 Getty Music Hymns and Songs
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690

(29:45) “There is a Redeemer” by Melody Green
© 1982 Birdwing Music; BMG Songs, Inc.; Ears To Hear; and Birdwing Music
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690

(1:11:00) “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” by Robert Robinson
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690

(1:14:21) “Doxology” by Thomas Ken & Louis Bourgeois
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690


(5:51) Call to Worship: We Bless You, God of All Mercies

ALL:
We bless You, God of all mercies,
for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life.

WOMEN:
We praise You for Your boundless love
revealed to us in Your son, our Lord, Jesus Christ,
for the means of grace and for the hope of glory.

MEN:
Give us such an awareness of Your mercies
that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth Your praise
not only with our lips, but in our lives,
by giving up ourselves to Your service,
and by walking before You in holiness and righteousness all our days.

ALL:
Through Jesus Christ our Redeemer,
to whom, with You and the Holy Spirit,
be all honor and glory now and forever.
Amen! Amen! Amen!


(33:20) Creed: The Providence of God
(SOURCE: Heidelberg Catechism, Questions 27 & 28)

LEADER: What do you understand by the providence of God?
PEOPLE: Providence is the almighty and ever-present power of God by which God upholds, as with His hand, heaven and earth and all creatures; and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty - all things, in fact, come to us not by chance, but by His fatherly hand.

LEADER: How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence help us?
PEOPLE: We can be patient in adversity, thankful in prosperity, and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that no creature will separate us from His love. For all creatures are so completely in His hand that without His will they can neither move nor be moved.