Regen's Worship Blog

Feb 27
- we sing glory
- take all of me – it is you
- amazing grace (jars of clay song)
- you are so good to me
- thank you for the blood
- nothing but the blood

Feb 20
1. Magnificent
2. Face of Christ
3. Holding Me
4. Before the Throne of God Above
5. Take This Bread
6. Everything
7. Now That You’re Near

Feb 13
Aaron leading

Feb 6
1. hallelujah jesus
2. no one else
3. face of christ
4. under the shadow of your wings
5. we sing glory
6. in the secret
7. jesus, lover of my soul

We have the privilege of not one but TWO amazing musicians coming to lead worship for Regen this Easter.

Justin McRoberts is leading the morning service.
Matt Denham from New Church  Berkeley is leading the evening service.

Happy Easter, everyone. He is Risen!

1 Peter is one of my favorite books in the New Testament. As I studied chapter 2 recently, I found myself asking if Jesus was precious to me. What does it feel like? What does it look like?

In a popular commentary, I found these ideas:

When Charles Spurgeon was 16 years old, he preached his first sermon in a village cottage to a handful of poor people, and he chose for his text 1 Peter 2:7: Unto you therefore which believe he is precious. Spurgeon said that he didn’t think he could have preached on any other Bible passage, “but Christ was precious to my soul and I was in the flush of my youthful love, and I could not be silent when a precious Jesus was the subject.”

“Is Jesus precious to your soul? Remember, on your answer to this question depends your condition. You believe, if he is precious to you, but if he is not precious, then you are not believers, and you are condemned already because you believe not on the Son of God.” (Spurgeon)

• Christ is precious intrinsically.
• Christ is precious positively.
• Christ is precious comparatively.
• Christ is precious superlatively.
• Christ is precious suitably to the need of the believer.

This is true; though G. Campbell Morgan preferred the Revised Version translation: For you therefore which believe is the preciousness. “The declaration is not that believers know the preciousness of Christ; it is rather that they share it. . . . The qualities of Christ that create His preciousness, His honour, are placed at the disposal of the believer.”
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And so I pray that we would know His preciousness as a body of believers, see it in each other, and that the areas where we need to repent as a body will be seen and surrendered.

May you encounter His preciousness.