Clear Water Presbyterian Church

We come to the one who loves beauty and what makes worship beautiful is God himself. In spite of the many disputes and supposed "worship wars," what truly unites Christians is there aim to worship God. These disputes reveal an underlying hunger to know, love, and worship the God who made all of us. May God purify all our worship that we may bless God and that we'd be blessed by Him in and through...

Jesus lives lawfully as the Lord of the Sabbath and this demands that we live for Him and not for rule-keeping. As the Lord of the Sabbath, He is the one who defines, clarifies, and has authority over the Law (God's love instruction). Jesus, too, lives lawfully, fulfilling the very heart of the Law in doing good, in saving life, in loving both God and those whom God has made on earth. This all cal...

Jesus as the physician comes to sinners sick with sin and invites them to be cleansed, forgiven and to feast with Him. Jesus also as the bridegroom comes to sinners and they cannot fast but only can feast in joy in his presence. Because of this, you must take your place at His table in faith.

Because Jesus comes to use his divine authority to forgive your sins, you must accept sin is your greatest problem, trust Jesus final authority, and then marvel at your forgiveness.

Only Jesus cleanses something so deep and impossible as the leprosy of our sinful hearts. He does not do it to the neglect or ignoring of the Law but in agreement with it. This type of work and the unwanted publicity from it leaves Jesus alone, unable to have a public ministry. However, Jesus is willing to give all of Himself, to be alone for this mission if it will accomplish the cleansing of His...

Jesus' commitment to preaching the gospel does not forgo compassion, is fueled by his communion with God, and is intended to bring you into communion with Him.

Because Jesus Christ gives a new teaching with authority, so you must believe in Him as the Holy One of God. You believe in this by accepting Jesus' supernatural authority, by being amazed by Jesus' bare word, and by confessing Christ with your whole life.

Because Jesus Christ is the King bringing God's Kingdom, we must switch our ultimate allegiance to Him by responding to His preaching and by following Him as disciples.

Because Jesus is the Only Son of God and Champion over evil, you must feel the weight of his tearing open the heavens and that He is the only slayer of evil.

Messengers are sent so that we may prepare ourselves to meet the Lord and this comes through recognizing THE Gospel of all gospels, by repenting and confessing our sin, and by hearing the Messenger's call and being made into messengers ourselves (as part of the church).

Christ who bears all authority not only deserves our allegiance but our worship. As disciples of Jesus we must worship him and we must see that his commission produces local churches that are collectives of disciple-making disciples. In order to become these types of disciples, we must learn to see people as God wants us to see them and to learn Christ's commands better that we might teach them. M...

The God who is in heaven and does all he pleases has chosen to tie his glory to the salvation of His people. Therefore, we must trust him, even though He is not tame to our comforts, desires, nor our idols, he is to be trusted completely. This trust looks like forfeiting idols, opening our hands to receive blessing from Him, and ultimately expecting to bless His name.

All Christians are invited to participate in the most important part of the Jesus' mission - that is praying for laborers to go into the harvest. Therefore, pray, knowing that Jesus continues His mission through you.

Because God has delivered us in the past, we can persevere in hope through remembering/reciting His past deliverances, through praying "unless you" type prayers, and through doing these things when returning to worship with the church every week.

Because God is the Father of Lights, we must bless God, not blame Him. We bless Him by praising Him, believing Him, and obeying Him and all of this not only because He is due these things but also because He is perfect Light in whom there is no darkness, and because every gift is from Him above.

The Lord is forever faithful to His covenant children, so we must serve him wholeheartedly as sons and daughters. This requires self-forgetfulness and wholeheartedness on our part. In view of God's forever faithfulness, we can in confidence worship Him as His sons and daughters.

The Word of God is the one place God has promised to teach us of Himself, therefore we must be faithful to it, treating it like oxygen, our North Star, and our very treasured communication from God.

God knows how true our worship is, so we must truly love God and our neighbor. We do this by uniting our love and ridding ourselves of a divided allegiance between God and idols. We also do this by confessing where we are devoid of love for God and our neighbor. In doing these things, we will not be deceived about what we can expect from the Lord on the day that Christ returns.

God loved the world by sending His own Son, so you must believe in the Son of God. This believing looks like acknowledging that is is only God’s initiation that rescues you from your condemnation. This believing also looks like fleeing darkness and self-deception and resting on the righteousness of the Son of God sent for you.