Bulletin – April 5, 2026

Devotional

Atoning Blood

“The blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from every sin.” 1 John 1:7

The blood of Jesus is everything. It is the central doctrine of our faith, the present and eternal life of our souls. There is no pardon, no salvation, no heaven but by blood–the blood of the Lord Jesus. Were we to relinquish every other revealed truth, and concentrate upon this one our supreme and lasting study, resolving all our knowledge of the Bible into an ‘experimental and personal acquaintance’ with ATONING BLOOD–as, like a purple thread, it runs from Genesis to Revelation, it would not be a too exaggerated view of this vital and momentous subject. The blood is everything to us–it is everything to God. He provided it, is satisfied with it, beholds it, and when He sees it on the soul, that soul becomes a living and a lovely soul in His sight. May our meditation on atoning blood exalt our views of its dignity, increase in us its power, and endear to our hearts the preciousness of Him who shed it! – Octavius Winslow

This Week

The Lord's Day Services

Sunday, April 5

9:45 a.m. Sunday school

11:00 a.m. Morning Service – Dr. McKnight

5:50 p.m. Pre-service Prayer

6:30 p.m. Evening Service – Dr. McKnight

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Weekly Announcements

Wednesday, April 8

7:30 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer

Sunday School Teachers’ Prayer

Advanced Announcements

Sunday, April 12

9:45 a.m. Sunday School

11:00 a.m. Morning Service – Rev. Philip Owen

5:50 p.m. Pre-service Prayer

6:30 p.m. Evening Service – Dr. Saunders

Wednesday, April 15
7:30 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer

Advanced Announcements

Thrusday, April 23
6:00 p.m. Session Meeting
7:30 p.m. Session & Board Meeting

Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28

5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Church grounds cleanup.

Tuesday, April 28
7:00 p.m. Women’s Bible Study – on Zoom

Trinitarian Bible Society Spring Meeting

The Central Ontario Auxiliary of the Trinitarian Bible Society invites you to attend their 2026 Annual Spring Meeting to be held, The Lord Willing, on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 8 PM, at the Hamilton Free Reformed Church, 1114 Old Mohawk Rd., Ancaster. The main speaker will be Rev. Edward Maljaars. Born and raised in western Canada, Rev. Edward Maljaars moved to Grand Rapids, MI, for theological training. He served as a missionary minister to Bolivia from 2017 to 2024, where he evangelized and eventually pastored a group congregating in the southern city of Tarija. In 2024, he returned to Canada to pastor the Netherlands Reformed Congregation (NRC) of Courtland, Ontario. The topic of his presentation will be The Power of the Living Word. All are welcome to attend. For more information regarding the many works of the society, please visit www.tbsbibles.org

Catechisms

The Shorter Catechism

Q94: What is baptism?

A: Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,¹doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace,²and our engagement to be the Lord’s.³

1. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 28:19

2. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Romans 6:3

3. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4

Bible Questions & Answers For Children

Q175: What happened to Saul?

A: Jesus appeared to him on the road to Damascus.

And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. Acts 22:6-8