Category Archives: Worship
A little of this and a little of that
If you missed the Plug or the awesome worship time we had in the 11:00 service, or you just want to watch them again, enjoy:
Something wonderful at local elementary school
Did you know that something wonderful took place yesterday afternoon at Robinson Elementary in Raytown?
You probably are aware that our WaM children’s choir will be performing the musical Happily Forever After this coming Sunday. What some of you may not know is that a team from our church has been going over to Robinson Elementary every Wednesday afternoon to teach a group of about 35 kids the musical. Yesterday, these kids had the opportunity to perform a mini-version of the musical after school.
What a blessing it was to witness God’s amazing grace and, in many ways, a miracle yesterday afternoon as we watched these kids praise our Lord through the music of Happily Forever After and to see a gym filled with parents and school faculty! The kids did an amazing job – but the most amazing part was that it was within the walls of a public school rather than a church building. Seeds were planted and through God’s power, lives will be changed!
The Lord put together a series of events to make this happen and now the kids from Robinson have been invited to join us this Sunday to perform the musical with the full WaM children’s choir. Please pray for each child and family, through this outreach opportunity, that they would hear and receive the truth of God’s Word.
Isaiah 55:11 – So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Praising God for His glory,
Robin Moore
(WaM mother, FBR church member, and staff member)
Remembrance
"Do this in remembrance of me." Luke 22:19
The Scriptures reveal two ceremonies to help Christians identify ourselves with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ: baptism and Communion. We are blessed to witness baptism nearly every week at our church, as people publicly declare that they have died to their old selves and are being raised to new life in Jesus.
The other ceremony Scripture teaches us about is the Lord’s Supper, or Communion. Not many songs are written for this element of worship, and I wanted to share with you a new song called Remembrance (The Communion Song). One thing I love about the song is the title “Remembrance.” In Luke’s account of the Lord’s Supper, Jesus breaks the bread, gives it to his disciples, and says “Do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19). This is the heart of worship; remembering Christ and what He has done for us. When we take a few moments to do that, we can have no other response but to worship. We have been invited into the mystery of Jesus’ sacrifice. By dying, He destroyed the death that was meant for us. By rising, He has given us life with the Father for all eternity and restored our broken relationship with Him. Read the words of this song, and let them remind you of what Jesus did for you. I hope you’ll join us this Sunday as we worship and observe the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper together.
Remembrance (The Communion Song)
Words & music by Matt Maher & Matt Redman
Verse 1
Oh how could it be
That my God would welcome me
Into this mystery?
Say ‘take this bread, take this wine’
Now the simple made divine
For any to receive
By Your mercy we come to Your table
By Your grace You are making us faithful
Chorus
Lord, we remember You
And remembrance leads us to worship
And as we worship You
Our worship leads to communion
We respond to Your invitation
We remember You
Verse 2
See His body, His blood
Know that He has overcome
Every trial we will face
None too lost to be saved
None too broken or ashamed
All are welcome in this place
Bridge
Dying, You destroyed our death
Rising, You restored our life
Lord Jesus, come in glory
Lord Jesus, come in glory
Why He’s worthy of our worship
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:5-11
As I opened the Scriptures to Philippians the other day and re-read this familiar passage, two questions arose in my mind: first, why are there two p’s in the title “Philippians”? Perhaps because there is only one l…anyway, I digress. What really piqued my interest and continues to stagger me as I write this is the humility of our Lord Jesus. He was the God-Man, fully divine yet fully human. Paul describes it in verses 6-7 of this passage that Christ existed in the form of God yet took on the likeness of men. The second part of the Trinity, the one who spoke all the created order into existence, the One who is the radiance of God’s glory took on our form? Whoa. He traded a heavenly body for our broken one, and His eternal communion with the Father and the Spirit for the loneliness of our mortal life.
But it doesn’t stop there. Verse 8 tells the extent of Christ’s humility: “He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death–even to death on a cross.” That’s the kicker. Not only did Jesus trade His Heavenly body for an earthly one, He then allowed it to be crucified on our behalf for the forgiveness of our sins. This is why Jesus is worthy of our worship, and our very lives. My prayer for you—and for me—is that we would be mindful of this truth the next time we gather to worship, that it is because of the humility of our Lord Jesus that we can come to the Father for forgiveness and life. It is because of this humility that He was given the only name that is worthy of our worship, the Name of Jesus. So as we worship together this next Sunday, let’s humble ourselves before Him in worship and exalt His Name “to the glory of God the Father.”
