The first class will be a three week series entitled “Getting to know HOFC”. This is a great class for newer members or visitors or anyone who wants a deeper knowledge of what HOFC is all about.

Reminder:  For those who signed up we will be serving at FMSC tomorrow at 9 AM.  Reminder 2:  See the prayer requests below (and send me any requests you would like listed…doesn’t have to be for health).

In my preparations for this week’s sermon I came across this poem by Robert M. McCheyne (1813–1843) that I want to share with you (we’ll get back to the marks of regeneration next week):

Jehovah Tsidkenu = Jehovah our Righteousness
(Jer. 23:6)
I once was a stranger to grace and to God,
I knew not my danger, and felt not my load,
Though friends spoke in rapture of Christ on the tree,
Jehovah Tsidkenu was nothing to me.

I oft read with pleasure to soothe or engage,
Isaiah’s wild measure and John’s simple page;
But e’en when they pictured the blood-sprinkled tree,
Jehovah Tsidkenu seemed nothing to me.

Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll,
I wept when the waters went over his soul,
Yet thought not that my sins had nailed to the tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu— ’t was nothing to me.

When free grace awoke me by light from on high
Then legal fear shook me; I trembled to die;
No refuge, no safety in self could 1 see,—
Jehovah Tsidkenu my Savior must be.

My terrors all vanished before the sweet name,
My guilty fear banished, with boldness I came
To drink at the Fountain, life-giving and free:
Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.

Jehovah Tsidkenu! my treasure and boast;
Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne’er can be lost:
In thee shall I conquer by flood and by field,
My cable, my anchor, my breastplate and shield!

Even treading the valley, the shadow of death!
This “watchword” shall rally my faltering breath;
For while from life’s fever my God sets me free,
“Jehovah Tsidkenu!” my death-song shall be.

><>><>><> 8/22/10 LORD’S DAY<><<><<><

Sermon:
Romans 7:7-13  Paul’s Defense of the Law

Discussion questions for family worship
1. Why might some think Paul was against God’s Law? v. 7a
2. How does the Law reveal your sinful nature? v. 7b
Why do many who know the Law not experience deep conviction of sin?
3. How does sin use the Law to produce more sin? v. 8
4. Explain the four stages of Paul’s experience as described in verse 9.
5. How does sin deceive you using the Law? v. 11
6. What about God’s Law is holy, righteous and good? v. 12
7. Why isn’t the law responsible for death? v. 13
8. What place does the law have in saving us?
9. What good is the law?

Hymns (Home Discipleship Hymnal):
26           Crown Him with Many Crowns
45           Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun
60           O Worship the King
52           Lord Jesus, I Long to Be Perfectly Whole
80           Doxology

Communion Servers:
Emrick, Fowler, Vejvoda    Cups: Jacob & Luke N.

Accompanist :
Mr. Freitag

><> OTHER NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS <><

Announcements:

Announcements:
No teaching time until the third Sunday in September (9/19).  We will begin with a 3 week seminar about knowing your church.  This will be the first time we’ve had a class like this so it will be appropriate for all members, attenders and new folks.  More details to follow.

Upcoming Events:
8/21 – Feed My Starving Children in Aurora – 9 AM – 11 AM
8/25 – Ladies’ Salad Supper at Emrick home – 7:30 PM
8/28 – No men’s breakfast (moved to 8/7)
9/1 – Wayside Chapel service – 7:30 PM
9/12 – Fellowship Meal following service
9/15 – Elder Meeting at Molitor home – 7 PM
9/17 – Fall Hymn Sing – more info to follow soon