Household Worship Guide on Return to God (You Cows of Bashan) and Prepare to Meet Your God from Amos 4

by Ed Blackwood

This week we will consider Return to God (You Cows of Bashan) and Prepare to Meet Your God from Amos 4. What is the strongest language with which someone has rebuked you? What was behind it? Did it give you pause? Did it bring about change in your life? Or did you continue to ignore their rebuke and whatever was in your life to bring that rebuke? And are you ready? Ready for what, you might ask? Ready to meet God?

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 Amos 4:1-5—You Cows of Bashan
Friday Amos 4:6-11—You did not return to me
Saturday Amos 4:12–13—Prepare to meet your God
Lord’s Day
Monday Matthew 22:34–40—Love God and Your Neighbor
Tuesday Luke 10:25-37—Love Your Neighbor
Wednesday Matthew 7:21–23—On That Day

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.

Worship Connected is a guide prepared by me, Dr. Ed Blackwood, pastor of the Springs Reformed Church (RPCNA), to focus family worship around the sermons preached each Lord’s Day. For more information about how and why I developed this guide (and encourage other pastors to consider doing something similar) see here.