Our Sin on Him Household Worship guide from Isaiah 53 + Aim of Worship Connected

by Ed Blackwood

This week we will consider Our Sin on Him and Our Successful, Suffering, Sprinkling, Servant Savior from Isaiah 52:13-53:12. 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 Isaiah 53:1-6—Punished for Us
Friday Isaiah 53:7-9—Afflicted for Us
Saturday Isaiah 53:10-12—Crushed for Us
Lord’s Day
Monday Acts 8:26–40—Good News about Jesus
Tuesday Ephesians 2:1-10—By Grace Alone
Wednesday John 19:16-30—It is Finished!

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:

What pastor wouldn’t want his congregation focusing all week long on taking in and living out his preaching because their daily family or household worship is helpfully connected to the weekly corporate worship and is enhancing how they remember and observe the Sabbath? Worship Connected is a family/household worship/devotions guide to be written by pastors to complement their Lord’s Day/Sunday sermon(s) by focusing the church members’ hearts, minds, and lives throughout the week on the preaching passage(s). The aim of this guide is three-fold.

1.      Encourage household worship as a regular practice and connect it with the church’s corporate worship.

2.      Enhance the saints’ mindful hearing of and meditation on the Word preached week by week.

3.      Exhort Christians to spend the early part of the week looking back at the Lord’s Day just past, then spend the last part of the week preparing for the Lord’s Day to come.