Preparing for Sunday | May 7
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
The Lion and the Lamb | [listen + lyrics]
Leeland Mooring, Benton Brown, Brian Johnson
Deuteronomy 33:26
Good, Good Father | [listen]
Anthony Brown, Pat Barrett
Galatians 4:7
Come to Me | [listen]
Elizabeth Akers, Jeff Capps, Michael Bleecker
Matthew 11:28-30
Alive in Us | [listen]
Ingram, Morgan | Hillsong Music
Ephesians 2:4-5
SERMON TEXT
John 10:10
Celebrating Generosity: Family Mission Brazil
It is our great desire to celebrate the generosity of the Lord here at RBC. Over this past Spring Break, Family Life Pastor Mike Meyers led a team of eighteen RBCers – parents and children – to serve in an indigenous region of Brazil. Our U.S. team partnered with a team of Brazilians that included several RBC-supported missionaries working with Open Arms Worldwide. The teams partnered with a tribal church in the village of Limão Verde in order to serve families and reach children with the gospel of Jesus. Many of you gave and prayed in support of their efforts, and we just want you to know how thankful we are for your generosity. Here’s a quick look at their trip.
Celebrating Generosity: Deacons Ministry
Scripture tells us to “bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). With this in mind, the RBC elders have appointed a specific group of men and women in our church to help bear the burdens of those in need. The specific purpose of the Deacon Ministry of Reston Bible Church is to care for the material and financial needs of those who regularly attend our church and consider RBC their church home. Your generosity enables us to serve many people within our congregation who are dealing with a variety of difficult life circumstances. Thank you for being a generous church and helping bear each other’s burdens as an expression of Jesus’ love.
You can learn more about the Deacon Ministry at RBC at www.restonbible.org/deacons.
Preparing for Sunday | April 30
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Glorious | [listen]
Paul Baloche, Benton Brown
Exodus 15:11
Your Promises| [listen]
Chris Brown, Mack Brock, Steven Furtick, Wade Joye
2 Peter 1:3-4a
This I Believe (The Creed) | [listen | lyrics]
Ben Fielding, Matt Crocker
Romans 1:16
Holy Spirit | [listen]
Bryan and Katie Torwalt
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Doxology | [listen | lyrics]
Thomas Ken
Jude 24-25
SERMON TEXT
Hebrews 5:11-14
Preparing for Sunday | April 23
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Great Things | [listen]
Mack Brock, Chris Brown, Wade Joye
Psalm 126:3
This Is Amazing Grace | [listen + lyrics]
Josh Farro, Phil Wickham, Jeremy Riddle
Revelation 5:12
Holy Spirit | [listen]
Bryan and Katie Torwalt
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Jesus Paid It All | [listen + lyrics]
by: Elvina M. Hall (1865)
Colossians 2:13-14
SERMON TEXT
Matthew 28:19-20
Preparing for Easter Sunday | April 16
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Man of Sorrows | [listen]
Matt Crocker, Brooke Ligertwood
Isaiah 53:3
What A Beautiful Name | [listen]
Ben Fielding, Brooke Ligertwood
Hebrews 1:3
Blessed Assurance | [listen]
Fanny Crosby, Phoebe Knapp, Mack Brock, Chris Brown
1 Peter 1:3-5
Death Was Arrested | [listen]
Adam Kersh, Brandon Coker, Heath Balltzglier, Paul Taylor Smith
Hebrews 2:9
O Praise The Name | [listen + lyrics]
by Benjamin Hastings, Dean Ussher, Marty Sampson
Romans 5:8
SERMON TEXT
Luke 23:39-45
Preparing for Palm Sunday | April 9
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Man of Sorrows | [listen]
Matt Crocker, Brooke Ligertwood
Isaiah 53:3
But God | [listen]
by: Michael Bleecker, Hunter Hall, Lauren Chandler
Ephesians 2:4-5
Jesus Is Better | [listen]
Aaron Ivey, Brett Land
Mark 9:24
In Christ Alone | [listen + lyrics]
by: Keith Getty, Stuart Townend
Galatians 2:20
How Great Thou Art | [listen]
by: Stuart K. Hine, Carl Boberg
Psalm 145:3
SERMON TEXT
Proverbs 9:10
Celebrating Generosity: Nicaragua Bike Project
RBCers have donated over 500 bikes in support of an orphanage in Managua, Nicaragua. The orphanage has developed a thriving bike shop where orphans are discipled in Christ as they learn vocational skills like bike repair, sales and customer service. Through your generosity, here is how the Lord is impacting lives in Nicaragua.
Preparing for Sunday | April 2
This week, we will be singing a new song that we’ll also sing on Easter. It’s called “Death Was Arrested.” Hebrews 2:9 tells us that Jesus came to this Earth to suffer death on our behalf. We are adopted into the family of God because Jesus tasted death on behalf of everyone, “bringing many sons to glory.” May we sing this truth together knowing that, as the Psalmist cries at the end of Psalm 22, “all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord…He has done it!”
I can’t wait to gather this Sunday and sing this beautiful truth together.
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Death Was Arrested | [listen]
Adam Kersh, Brandon Coker, Heath Balltzglier, Paul Taylor Smith
Hebrews 2:9
Come to Me | [listen]
Elizabeth Akers, Jeff Capps, Michael Bleecker
Matthew 11:28-30
Holy Spirit | [listen]
Bryan and Katie Torwalt
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Rejoice | [listen]
Dustin Kensrue, Stuart Townend
Philippians 4:4
SERMON TEXT
Matthew 13
Celebrating Generosity: Global Missions
The RBC Missions program officially began in 1978 supporting 3 missionaries with a total annual budget of $5000 per year. Since those early years, our involvement in what God is doing around the world has exploded. Each year we are blessed to send multiple teams of RBC adults and youth on short term missions trips to support evangelistic efforts, construction projects, camps for children and more. Additionally, 19 of our RBC families and singles are currently serving the LORD oversees long-term and it is our great privilege to be their home sending church.
Because of decades of your continual generosity, today your giving extends to 59 countries supporting 191 missionaries including many nationals serving in their country of origin. Through your prayers and giving, and our missionary family, God is planting churches in areas where none exist, caring for refugees and bringing them to salvation in Jesus, training pastors in oversees bible colleges and seminaries, translating Scripture into other languages, supporting urban & rural churches, ministering to orphans and children and much more.
Through you and your generosity, God is reaching the nations with the love of Christ.
From our humble beginning of allocating $5000 to overseas missions, your faithful giving to the general fund has expanded the annual budget for these global mission efforts to over $1.5 million per year. The results since 1978? Over $36.8 million given towards world missions. Even more importantly, God has used you to bring tens of thousands of lives to a saving knowledge of Himself, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
So again, I thank each of you for your generosity. I encourage you to keep keeping on, for our Lord is worthy of it!