This week, we welcome Pastor Timothy Craig, Assistant Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship Church in Watertown, to serve us with God's word. Timothy is from New Hampshire and earned degrees in art from both UNH and BU. He first trusted Christ in his late 20s, completed seminary, and has served in San Francisco, Chile, and Mexico, before returning to New England in 2021 to serve at Redeemer. Timothy is also an artist, painting and selling paintings everywhere he goes.
What do you most desire in life? We'll see in this Sunday's passage that often we don't realize the deepest desires of our heart--and that Jesus can meet them! Bro. Philip, our ministry intern, will teach us how Jesus digs deeper into our hearts and how we can find deep satisfaction in worship of Him.
What is the purpose of your life? After a disastrous stay in Shechem, the Lord calls Jacob to finish his journey back home to Bethel. This is where God first revealed himself to Jacob and where Jacob first worshiped the Lord. We see in this passage at the end of Jacob's journey that worship is the ultimate goal of his life and our lives. What do we learn about how God calls us to worship him?
It's healthy to take a day off from work and to take a vacation once in a while, too. And yet, God uses one of his famous 10 Commandments to require his people to rest, every week. As we study the 4th Commandment this Sunday, we'll see the significant spiritual reason why God commands you to rest.
In the second commandment this Sunday, we'll see that God is not only concerned about who we worship but how we worship. The way we worship the Lord matters!
