March 28, 2021

Upcoming Events and Notices

We are resuming in-person worship service. Please join us at 11 AM. You can find the order of worship and songs here

Due to technical problems the March 21st service and sermon were not recorded. Lord willing, the recording of the March 28th service will be made available Sunday afternoon. We will send you a notification by email.

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

April 7 (Wednesday 7 PM): We will begin a new book study on Dane Ortlund's "Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers." Please read the Introduction and chapters 1–3. The chapters are short and easy to read!

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 wrapped up our study of J.I. Packer's "Knowing God" this past Wednesday. This is probably my fourth or fifth time reading the book, and as is the case with all good books, each reading has been rewarding in its own way. I have certainly found it both enriching and edifying once again. In particular, I found Dr. Packer's constant exhortation to think greater and more glorious thoughts of God so helpful. For it is not just the ancient heathens that create gods after their own image. We also tend to view God as just a little better version of the good people we aspire to be. And as long as our thoughts about God remain small, our worship will have a correspondingly lackluster quality. We need to see how much more glorious and great God is than we can imagine.

But how do we do that? First, we turn to Scripture and let it expand our minds and enlarge our hearts. Then we humbly learn from the wise saints who have gone before us, whose deep learning and life-long faithfulness can awaken in us a new and fresh appreciation of God's majesty. Scripture first. Then, judiciously and discerningly, the teachers God has given us. Indeed, listening well to Scripture and wise saints is a tell-tale indication both of our own wisdom and humility.

Come, then, and let us show ourselves wise. Let us hear, understand, internalize, obey, and may God ever increase in our hearts and in our minds.