The Heidelberg Catechism - The Foundations Of Our Faith

Call to worship Psalm 143:1-12 Law grace reading James 4:1-17 Bible reading:  Matthew 7: 6-12     Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. 7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 12 "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.   Benediction  Ephesians 3:20, 21  Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than a...

LIFE'S GREATEST QUESTION      What is to be the focus of my life? Materialism Seems More Real Than Faith 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Will Having MORE THINGS make me MORE HAPPY ? "Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. . . As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?" Ecc. 5:10,11 Will Having MORE THINGS make me MORE SECURE ? "The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it an unscalable wall." Prov. 18:11 "Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint....