February 28, 2021

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 10 AM, February 28, 2021, 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 February 28, 2021 service here.

Please join us as we read another collection of great books for the year 2021. You can find the list here.

February 28 (Lord's Day 11:15 AM): Please join us for fellowship after the worship service via Zoom: Meeting ID: 879 4595 5692 — for meeting passcode please text pastor Ken.

March 3 (Wednesday 7 PM): Please join us for for "Knowing God" Zoom study. This week's study will cover chapter 19 — "Sons of God." Meeting ID: 831 0828 6050 — for meeting passcode please text pastor Ken.

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

We are worshipful creatures. We are always singing the praise of something or extolling the virtue of someone. And we take offense when others will not join in our worship. The object of our worship may be a celebrity, a politician, a sports team, or even a TV show or a piece of music. We find our sense of identity and worth in the things we worship. That is why when people disagree with the inherent worth of the things we worship, we take it as a personal attack. How dare they criticize my favorite singer / team / politician? How utterly lacking in taste and sense they are to not "get" what is so obvious!

This is both disturbing and inevitable. It is inevitable because God has created us to worship. It is disturbing because we worship all the wrong things.

What makes you, you? Where do you get your sense of identity? When do you experience sorrow because people think and feel differently than you do? These are the questions that Revelation 4:11 helps us to sort through.

"Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created." God created us to worship him, to find our worth and identity in our relationship with him. Would you sing his praises? Would you extol his virtues? And may our Creator and Redeemer God be the object of our passionate worship, and the treasure we long to share with people.