Weekly Bulletin – February 11, 2024

Devotional

Herein is Love

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10.

“Herein is love!” as though John would say, “and nowhere else but here!” That God should punish the innocent for the guilty- that He should exact the blood of His Son to cancel the guilt of His rebels- that He should lay an infinite weight of wrath on His soul, in order to lay an infinite weight of love on ours- that He should sacrifice His life of priceless value for ours- worthless, forfeited, and doomed- that He should not only give His Son, but should bruise Him, put Him to grief, afflict Him, should make His soul an offerinq for sin- that the ‘Lord of Glory’ should become a ‘man of sorrows’, the Lord of Life should die, and the Heir of all things should be “as him that serves.” Oh depth of love unfathomable! Oh height of love unsearchable! Oh length and breadth of love unmeasurable! Oh love of God, which passes knowledge! – Octavius Winslow

This Week

The Lord's Day Services

Sunday, February 11

9:50 a.m. Sunday school

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

SermonAudio Link

5:50 p.m. Pre-service prayer

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

SermonAudio Link

Hymn sing following the evening service.

Weekly Announcements

Wednesday, February 14

7:30 p.m. Bible study and prayer

Advanced Announcements

Sunday, February 18

9:50 a.m. Sunday School

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

5:50 p.m. Pre-service Prayer

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

Youth/Young Adult fellowship after the evening service.

Advanced Announcements

Wednesday, February 21

7:30 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer

Saturday, February 24

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Family skate and lunch

Tuesday, February 27

7:00 p.m. Women’s Bible Study – on Zoom

Family Skate and Lunch

Everyone is invited to a family skate on Saturday, February 24, from 9:00 – 11:00 am. You are welcome to invite extended family and friends. We have rented the ice at the Canlan Sports Arena at 159 Dynamic Dr, Scarborough, ON M1V 5L8. Helmets are recommended for everyone but are only mandatory for youth 16 years old and younger. A pizza lunch will be provided at the church following the skating. The skating cost is $20 per person. Please see Jonathan McAnally for payment.

Catechisms

The Shorter Catechism

Q90: How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?

A: That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence,¹ preparation,² and prayer;³ receive it with faith⁴ and love,⁵ lay it up in our hearts,⁶ and practise it in our lives.⁷
1. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. (Proverbs 8:34).
2. Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. (1Peter 2:1-2).
3. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. (Psalms 119:18).
4. The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. (Hebrews 4:2b).
5. They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2 Thessalonians 2:10b).
6. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. (Psalms 119:11).
7. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:25).

Bible Questions & Answers For Children

Q41: How did Noah learn that the flood was going away?

A: By sending out a dove which returned with an olive leaf.

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. Genesis 8:11

Q42: How is the Lord Jesus Christ like the Ark?

A: He is our Saviour from sin.

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. Genesis 7:23

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. Genesis 8:13,14