This week’s Family Worship:
Family Worship for Lord’s Day July 27, 2025
Confession:
Chapter 22 - Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Prayer with thanksgiving is an element of natural worship and so is required by God of everyone. But to be acceptable, it must be made in the name of the Son, by the help of the Spirit, according to his will. It must be accompanied by understanding, reverence, humility, fervor, faith, love, and perseverance. Prayer with others must be in a language that is understood.
Under the gospel, neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship is now restricted to or made more acceptable by the place where it is done or toward which it is directed. Instead, God is to be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth - daily in each family and privately by each individual. Also, more formal worship is to be performed in public assemblies, and these must not be carelessly or deliberately neglected or forsaken, when God by his word or providence calls us to them.
Catechism:
107. Q. What does the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us?
A. The preface of the Lord’s prayer, which is Our Father which art in heaven, teaches us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father, able and ready to help us; and that we should pray with and for others.
114. Q. What does the conclusion of the Lord’s prayer teach?
A. The conclusion of the Lord’s prayer, which is, For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen, teaches us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only, and in our prayers to praise Him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory, to Him. And in testimony of our desire and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen .
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 10: 1-39 (The Atonement)
Hymn: Nothing But the Blood of Jesus
Psalm: 139 (Psalter 139C)