University Baptist Church

SUNDAY, March 7th
It is our encouragement to have a nice, calm meal together on Sunday evenings, gathering around the dinner table. This helps establish the right tone for the week. Keeping the family around the table is important as all wait until everyone is finished eating. After everyone is finished, take the lead and ask everyone to listen to the reading of God’s Word.

Suggested Reading:

Read Colossians 1:15-20. Christ is preeminent, before all things, all-powerful, holder together of all things… and He shed is blood for us!  Walk steadily through this passage and acknowledge what you know about this Christ.  Sit and speak about the wonder of this Christ making peace with God on behalf of His children.  God was not at odds with His son.  Jesus, however, being God in the flesh became the only One who could make us at peace with the Father.

And He did so through His blood.  His blood, with all the violence that led to its spilling, has cleansed us forever!  So, does that cause us to want to sin?  It can’t!  We may certainly sin and fail, but it should never flow out of some wrongful assurance that we’re okay to sin because He’s died for us.  That is tantamount to trampling on the shed blood of Christ.  We must treasure the blood that flowed, unwasted, to cover the sins of His children for all of eternity.  It should provoke us to song, thankfulness, and, as Leviticus 17 makes so clear, the unhindered worship of the One True God!

Catechism Questions:

See Below.

Family Prayer:
1) Give brief instruction on prayer being communication with God where we gain God’s heart for all things. Make a practice to include “Lord willing” kind of language, which submits our greatest passion for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven (James 4:15).

2) Go around the table and take prayer requests.

3) Allow for any to pray that wish to. There can be benefit in your unbelieving children praying at a young age, just be sure to encourage right praying and not “sweet” praying.

4) Dad (if present) close with prayer; otherwise whoever represents spiritual leadership in the home.

Suggested Song:

“There is a Fountain Filled with Blood”
by William Cowper

There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains.

The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in His day;
And there have I, though vile as he,
Washed all my sins away.

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its pow’r,
Till all the ransomed church of God
Are safe, to sin no more.