Start Being Wise-Household Worship Guide from Proverbs 1 + So Many Inputs

We're Back! This week we will consider Start Being Wise and the Enticement of Sinners from Proverbs 1. At Springs Reformed Church we distribute a weekly guide running from the Lord's Day to Saturday with Monday-Wednesday reviewing the sermons that were preached the Lord's Day at the start of the week and Thursday-Saturday previewing the sermons that will be preached the coming Lord's Day.

However, for the posts here I am linking to the guide from Thursday to Wednesday so that all are aimed at the Lord's Day as the peak of the 7-day rhythm as seen in the image above. The Lord's Day post includes links to the sermons.

Thursday Proverbs 1:1-7—The Proverbs of Solomon

Friday Proverbs 1:8-19—Listen, My Son, to Your Father’s Instruction

Saturday Proverbs 1:20-33—Wisdom Calls Out in the Street

Lord’s Day

Monday Luke 2:39-40, 51-52 The Boy Grew …

Tuesday Genesis 4:1–16—Sin Desires to Overtake You

Wednesday 1 Corinthians 1:18-31—Christ is God’s Wisdom

If you find it useful to use these in your household/family worship, consider asking your pastor to speak to me about him developing something similar in your congregation.

Thoughts for Pastors:

Under normal circumstances, typical churchgoers might have a sermon on one topic/text on Sunday morning, another on a different topic/text on Sunday evening, perhaps a mid-week Bible study or prayer meeting with another specific topic/text, then maybe a men’s or women’s study on yet another topic/text. Additionally, the faithful Christian will likely have private and household worship on once again a different portion of God’s Word. All of these are useful. All seek to get God’s Word and its application into the church members’ hearts, minds, and lives.

But could there be a way to tie some of these together? Rather than having three or four unrelated intakes from the Bible each week, could Christians have at least two[1] critical events in their lives as believers—corporate and household worship—drawn from the same portion of Scripture? This project says “Yes.” Not only could there be a way, there is a way, and it is also a useful way for a pastor to concentrate the minds of the church members together in these two events so that their taking in and living out the weekly preaching is enhanced, their household worship is helpfully connected to the weekly corporate worship, and their remembering and observing the Sabbath is guided deeper.

[1] A consideration of a third significant event, for those congregations that maintain morning and evening assembled worship is outside the scope of this paper but has been used effectively by me–namely preaching on a chapter of Scripture in the morning, and then focusing in on a portion of that same chapter in the evening.