Worship Service Livestream


October 4, 2026
  • Welcome and Announcements
  • House Of The Lord
  • Prayer of Invocation
  • In Christ Alone
  • I Give You My Heart
  • Scripture Reading - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
  • Good Good Father
  • Pastor's Message -- With A Little Help From My Friends
  • I Give You My Heart


1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
1 Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you.
2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
3 While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;
5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.
7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.


SERMON NOTES - With A Little Help From My Friends

  • We encourage one another through our words.
  • "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit." (Proverbs 18:21).
  • "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear." - Ephesians 4:29
  • Proverbs 25:11 says: "Like apples of gold in settings of silver Is a word spoken in right circumstances." The idea is not merely to say something positive. It is to say something that is appropriate, beneficial, and necessary for the situation.
  • We encourage one another by our actions.
  • "When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus. And he was with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord." - Acts 9:26-28
  • Encouragement is not merely saying, "Keep going." Encouragement is doing something that helps another person keep going.
  • We encourage one another with the Word of God.
  • "For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus." - Romans 15:4-5
  • We encourage one another with our prayers.
  • We encourage one another with community.
  • "And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near." - Hebrews 10:24-25