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TRADITIONAL WORSHIP SERVICE - Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Features: Hymns, Choruses from the past, Gaither Music, Southern Gospel, etc. presented in a traditional piano/organ accompanied style.
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CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP
SERVICE -
SUNDAYS AT 11:00 a.m. Features: Modern Worship aka Tomlin, Crowder, Redman, etc. with a Praise and Worship Band.
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for more information contact pastor Bob at worship@gcnaz.org or at the church office 869-0303
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WORSHIP
MINISTRIES
THE
IMPORTANCE OF WORSHIP
Our
Ultimate Priority
Why
is worship important?
 | It pleases God -Yet a time is coming
and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
John 4:23 |
| It transforms the worshiper -...offer
your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is
your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the
pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Romans 12:1-2 |
| It promotes evangelism -He [God]put
a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and
put their trust in the Lord. Psalm 40:3 |
| It
is forever -Day and night they never stop saying:
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is and
is to come." |
Song of the Week:
Click here to visit PRAISECHARTS song of the week webpage.
SONG STORY
Listen to Paul Baloche's new worship song,
Hymn Story
Blessed Assurance
Let
us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith. . . .Let us
hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."
--Hebrews 10:22-23
The
Scriptures teach that we can know with absolute certainty that we have the life
of God within us (1 John
Though
she become blind at six weeks of age through improper medical treatment, Fanny
Crosby wrote more than eight thousand gospel song texts in her lifetime of
ninety-five years. Her many favorites such as "Blessed Assurance" have
been an important part of evangelical worship for the past century.
Often
the themes for Fanny Crosby's texts were suggested by visiting ministers who
wished to have a new song on a particular subject. As she once said, "Our
home is a beehive of activity with so many friends dropping in and requesting a
new hymn for some special occasion." At other times musician friends would
first compose the music and then ask Fanny for matching words. Such was the
prompting for the hymn "Blessed Assurance." One day Mrs. Joseph
(Phoebe) Knapp, who was an amateur musician, the daughter of a noted Methodist
evangelist, and a close personal friend, visited Fanny in her
"Oh
Fanny, I have had a new melody racing through my mind for some time now,
and I just can't think of anything else. Let me play it for you and
perhaps you can help me with the words."
After
kneeling in prayer and clutching her little Bible, the blind poetess stood to
her feet with face aglow: "Why, that music says, 'Blessed Assurance, Jesus
is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine. . . .'"
Soon
the words began to flow from her heart, and there was born another of the more
than eight thousand gospel hymns by this godly woman, the "queen of gospel
music." And still today our hearts are inspired and our spirits lifted as
we sing this musical testimony together.