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May 4-11, 2025

A weekly set of resources that we can use as a community to equip us individually and with one another.  You don't have to use everything.  Try things out on your own, with your family, or with your community and see what excites your heart and imagination.  

The Fields Bible Reading Schedule

Each week, we provide daily Bible readings that will take you through the Old Testament in three years and the New Testament in one.  This roughly works out to one chapter from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament each day with a Psalm on Sunday.
5/4 - Psalm 135
5/5 - Esther 8; Romans 3
5/6 - Esther 9; Romans 4
5/7 - Esther 10; Romans 5
5/8 - Obadiah; Romans 6
5/9 - Haggai 1; Romans 7
5/10 - Haggai 2; Romans 8
5/11 - Psalm 136

SCRIPTURE MEMORY

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ "

- John 7:37-38

SONG FOR THE WEEK

Each week, this section will have a song for you to sing, either on your own or with your family. Use this resource to ground the word of God in your heart throughout the week.
"Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing"
By:  Robert Robinson (1758)
Alterer:  Martin Madan (1760)
Come Thou Fount of every blessing, 
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing 
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet 
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it, 
Mount of Thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer, 
Hither by Thy help I come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure 
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger 
Wandering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger 
Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter 
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it; 
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, Lord take and seal it, 
Seal it for Thy courts above

O that day when freed from sinning 
I shall see Thy lovely face
Clothed then in my blood washed linen, 
How I'll sing Thy sovereign grace
Come, my Lord, do not tarry, 
Take my ransomed soul away
Send Thine angels now to carry 
Me to realms of endless days
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CREEDS, CONFESSIONS, AND CATECHISMS

Westminster Confession of Faith
https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/westminster-confession-faith
 
Chapter 25: Of The Church;  Article 3

III. Unto this catholic visible church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting of the saints in this life, to the end of the world; and doth by his own presence and Spirit, according to his promise, make them effectual thereunto.
(See:  1 Cor 12:28; Eph. 4:11; Mat. 28:19; Isa. 59:21)


Westminster Larger Catechism
https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/westminster-larger-catechism
 
Q. 81. Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved?

A. Assurance of grace and salvation not being of the essence of faith, true believers may wait long before they obtain it; and after the enjoyment thereof, may have it weakened and intermitted, through manifold distempers, sins, temptations, and desertions; yet are they never left without such a presence and support of the Spirit of God as keeps them from sinking into utter despair.

Book Recommendation

Knowing God  by J.I. Packer

Many of you may have read this book before.  (Some very recently!)  But if you've never read it, or if it's been a while, it may be time to pick it up.  While Knowing God by J.I. Packer is only 50 years old, it has become a modern classic, helping millions of Christians to understand the presence of God in their lives.  Readers are helpfully connected to scripture to know about the God of the Bible, but then taken deeper through scripture to know God through a relationship with Jesus Christ.