Isaiah points God’s people to a day when “It shall come to pass … that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of mountains, … and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths’” (Isaiah 2:2-3). The nations shall stream to the house of the Lord in order to “get wisdom, get understanding,” as the Proverb tells us.

And so, in Acts 8, Luke recounts for us an Ethiopian eunuch who has journeyed from the ends of the earth, from among those explicitly banned from the family of the God of Jacob, in order to learn Yahweh and his ways, in order to get wisdom and understanding. And, lo and behold, what does he find? A commoner speaking of a crucified carpenter.

This weekend as you prepare yourselves and your family to gather together with Christ’s redeemed reflect on the astounding mystery of God by which he restores us (and all things), makes us alive, and binds us together; namely, Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Please also keep the following items in mind, making them a matter of praise and prayer:

• New Babies! - praise God for his safe delivery of Kaylee Ruth Wilcox (1/9) and Roger Gerald Collins, III (1/23); pray for the recovery and adjustment of these families growing by God’s grace for the display of his glory
• New Growth - that the community of Christ’s redeemed at CVPC would be increasingly possessed with a sense of the “Wonder of It all” through our prayer, worship, and fellowship together;
• New Outreach - pray that the Lord would be pleased to declare and display his good news through the ESL outreach, CVES Mentoring, and the Blue Ridge, Georgia Outreach.

File: Order of Worship for January 28, 2007