By faith, we believe that God has created the world in six days and so brought order and beautiful manner. Regarding our own lives, we also seek to bring order as we submit ourselves to God ordained authorities (Matt 8:5-ff). Following the example in scripture, the church is to be overseen by a plurality of elders, equal in authority though differing in gifts (Titus 1:5). As these elders submit one unto another, they also find themselves submitting to a larger body of elders outside their specific body and remain united to a larger body and provide protection from drifting into error (Acts 15). In that pattern of submission, we are currently working to become members of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC).

In the worship, we are making a diligent effort to sing from God’s songbook, namely the Psalms (Col 3:16). As we sing the Psalms, in robust congregational singing, we are learning what it is to fight God’s enemies, to rejoice with the triumphant King, to recount the ancient battles and to rightly prepare ourselves for all challenges here on earth. In corporate worship and in family worship, we sing Psalms, noble hymns, and beautiful spiritual songs to God’s glory.

We acknowledge that our Lord has one church world-wide and by the power of the Holy Spirit has been alive and active for millenniums (1 Cor 12:12-ff). We seek to find ourselves connected with those who have come before us, those who will come after us as such we confess the ancient creeds such as The Apostle’s and Nicene Creed (Heb 12:1). Joining with faithful brethren post Reformation our leaders find themselves in accord with the Westminster Confession of Faith. We strive here on earth to unite with our brothers in Christ so that the world will know us by our love (John 13:35).

By faith, we acknowledge that we are descendants of Abraham by faith (Rom 4). We join with Abraham and believe God’s promises, especially when He said that He was Abraham’s God and God to His children (Acts 2:39). To embody this principle, we encourage children and even nursing infants to participate in worship (Psa 8:2). Children who are raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord will not depart, but continue in the faith, which they began to learn even as they suckled at their mother’s breast (Psa 22:9). We rejoice that God makes a covenant with us and with our children for a thousand generations (Deut 7:9).

Like Jesus, we will lead as we sacrificially serve our neighbors and then take on every growing responsibility. We will serve our neighbors as we operate businesses, start schools, shine the light of God’s Word in dark places and live beautifully. This service starts as men sacrificially rule their families, to bring order and beauty to them. With our households in order, then we work outward with our local community and build a God honoring culture.

As Jesus was crucified, the veil separating us from God’s presence, was torn in two (Heb 10:20). We now have the high calling and privilege of entering God’s presence each week to meet the Almighty Father, to be forever changed. The purpose of worship is not the entertainment of men, but directed to God, for His adoration (Heb 12:28-29). As such, our worship is guided from start to finish by principles we find throughout scripture. This worship that is done weekly spills over and governs our entire life.

From start to finish our worship is saturated with the God’s Word. Our typical manner of preaching is expository, which is to say we start a book in the bible, and then preach through it over weeks and month. In doing so, our desire is to preach the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27). We acknowledge that all scripture is useful for teaching and preparing a man for godliness and righteousness (2 Tim 3:16). In like manner, we encourage fathers to lead their families in regular reading and application of God’s Word (Deut 6:1-ff).

Every week, God invites us to His house, He greets us, He understands our needs and abundantly provides. The culmination of our weekly invitation into God’s house, those who are united by means of baptism partake of a feast and this we call the Lord’s Supper (Acts 20:7). As we eat the bread, we remember that He was broken that we might be healed (Isa 53:5). We drink the wine together and so our hearts rejoice knowing the blessings that are being showered upon us (Psa 104:15). Our leaders are called to be given to much hospitality, giving us and earthly picture of Christ loving us (1 Tim 3:2). We desire to be a people given too much hospitality to the household of God and to those who are broken and in need (Matt 25:31-ff).

Before ascending to His Heavenly throne, Jesus told His disciples that all power in Heaven and on Earth was His, therefore we are to go disciple the nations and bring them into covenant with Him through the sign and seal (Matt 28:18-20). Like the Israelites of old, we have been promised a land, namely the whole world. There are indeed giants in our world, but God will be true to His promises that Jesus is Lord over every square inch of this world of which He died to claim as His own. As we disciple nations, we also expect to disciple those in civil authority as to how they are to preform their duties as ministers of justice to God’s glory.

There is a cosmic battle that started back in the Garden of Eden. At the Cross, Jesus reclaimed this World as His own when He bound the strong man that once controlled this world and is now taking his possessions (Mark 3:27). Jesus’ kingdom, though it started out as the size of mustard seed, has been growing and will ultimately fill the earth (Dan 2:44-ff). Our fight is not against flesh and blood, but everything that would claim to be lord of us. As we bow the knee to Christ, we do not bow the knee to others and we are busy equipping the next generation to continue the fight (Psa 127). Regardless of when our Lord takes us home or returns to this earth, we want Him to find ourselves faithfully busy about building and expanding His kingdom (Matt 24:46).