December 27, 2020
Upcoming Events and Notices
This week San Diego Country remains in the highest COVID-19 risk category of Purple/Widespread. The State of California guidelines for San Diego County states that all worship services should be conducted outdoor. And given the challenges of weather and logistics, we will continue to hold our Lord's Day worship service online only.
Please join us 9:30 AM, December 25, for a short Christmas morning singing and devotion via YouTube livestream. You can find the scripture passages and songs here.
Please join us 10 AM, December 27, for worship. You can participate in this week's service via YouTube here. You can find the order of worship and songs here.
You can find the sermon from the December 20, 2020 service here.
December 27 (Lord's Day 11:15 AM): Please join us for fellowship after the worship service via Zoom: Meeting ID: 879 4595 5692
Thank you for your continued support of Grace Fallbrook (PCA). Your loving support makes the proclamation of the gospel and the building up of the saints possible. Please continue to mail in your gifts and offerings to our church treasurer, Bruce Summers. In addition, our church website now features online giving. Please visit the church website and click on "Give" which you will find in the upper left corner of our church's website. When you click on "Give Online Now" button on that page, you will be directed to the PCA Foundation where you can give towards Grace Fallbrook (PCA).
Before We Worship
The end of one year and the beginning of another can be a very beneficial time for our souls. As we are reminded of life's fleeting moments, we would do well to worship God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. And pray, as Moses does in Psalm 90, that the Lord might make us wise.
But what is wisdom? It is knowing that when our life is done and over with, the only things of our lives that will endure are what we have built upon God. How terrible it will be to see on that day that nothing we have loved and adored matter, because we have loved and adored the things that are ultimately less than nothing? And how sweet our joy and how glorious our reward will be when we see our service to God is remembered forever by him!
As we often do at the beginning of a new year, we turn to Psalm 90, "A Prayer of Moses, the Man of God." May this psalm make us worshippers, who offer up to God the few and brief years of our life here and now, for the enduring joy and glory that will follow.
Ephesians 5:15–21 calls us to "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil." Paul then explains "the best use of time," which is being in communion with the Holy Spirit, with our lips and hearts saturated with God's word as we sing and give thanks. Isn't it ironic that this is exactly what the world thinks is a unwise use of time? How often have we invited people to church, to Bible study, to worship, only to be told they are too busy?
Sadly, we hear similar sentiments from professing Christians, too. We need to repent if Jesus is not the Lord of our time. For if he is not the Lord of our time here and now, will he be the Lord of our eternity?
Praise be to God that our only comfort in life and death is that we stand in Jesus, cleansed and declared righteous. So we bow humbly before Jesus, and honor him with a heartfelt faith and love. May 2021 make us all truly wise before God!