LORD'S DAY SCHEDULE

Sunday Morning Worship, 9:00 am ~ The focus here is upon renewing our covenant with God through Christ by hearing from God's law, confessing our sins, and receiving His gracious pardon through the gospel.  We respond to God's grace with praise, and we hear the Word of Christ for the nurturing of our faith.  Click on "Bulletin" in the main menu for a sample order of worship.

Sunday Evening Worship, 5:00 pm ~ We continue to offer praise to the Lord, but we also learn through scriptural sermons the undoubted truths of the Christian faith as faithfully summarized in our Reformed standards (usually the Heidelberg Catechism or the Belgic Confession).  Click on "Bulletin" in the main menu for a sample order of worship.

Nursery Care ~ Because worship is a covenantal event which calls believers and their children to meet with the Triune God, we strongly encourage families, as they are able, to worship together.  Nursery care, however, is regularly available for little ones, ages 3 and under.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO FIND IN           REFORMED WORSHIP

At Providence we believe Scripture to teach that worship is a renewal of our covenant with God through the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit.  The Triune God who meets us in worship is holy and righteous - the only living God who dwells in unapproachable light and in whom is no darkness at all. 

We, therefore, intend to do all with reverence and awe in our worship of God.  It is indeed a unique privilege to be called out of the world and brought into God's presence, and it fills us with gratitude and joy.  But God's Word gives no place for levity, disorder, acting according to our imaginations or for our entertainment.  At Providence, then, one can expect to worship God in a way that is pleasing and acceptable to Him, that is, in a way that accords with what He has revealed in His Word. In this way, Christians can be assured not only that God is the one to whom our worship is directed, but also that we cannot be made to engage in "worship" practices that would violate our conscience before Him.

Such worship can be characterized as biblical (structured by biblical forms and filled with the content of the Bible); it is liturgical (ordered in a fitting way for the corporate approach sinners make to God); it is covenantal (an occasion for all of God's people, believers with their children, to be active in responding to God's majesty and grace); and it is historical (that is, united with the church's biblical confessions, prayers and praise through the centuries, rather than with the empty and fading fads of our present culture). 

Moreover, we believe our worship of God to be rooted in and motivated by His gracious upholding and nurturing of our faith through the means of grace - the preaching of His Word, because through it God promises to create faith (Romans 10:17) and to equip us for every good work (2 Timothy 3:17); and the Sacraments, because through these God promises to confirm believers in salvation through faith alone in Christ alone (Acts 22:16; Matt 26:26-28).  Certainly, we bring our praise and thanks to God every Lord's Day, but we believe the central events in the service to be God's saving and sanctifying actions for us through Word and Sacrament.  We need not invent ways of climbing up into heaven to see or feel the presence of God - He graciously condescends to be with us truly and savingly through the means of grace.