Great Basin Reformed Presbyterian Church

9725 S Virginia St

 Reno, NV 89511

Contact Info

Rev. Colin Samul                                                  Elder Paul Hemphill

775-636-2703                                                                  559-392-2139

greatbasinRPC@gmail.com                        hemphill.paul@gmail.com

Welcome

We welcome you in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We hope you will be encouraged and edified, having heard Biblical

truth in love.

Great Basin RP is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of

North America, one of the oldest denominations in the United States.

We are committed to the doctrines of Scripture and the formation of

loving community as a necessary fruit of the Gospel.

In light of the above, we believe that the most comprehensive and accurate summary of biblical teaching is found in the Westminster Confession of Faith, together with the Westminster Larger and

Shorter Catechisms. These documents were completed in 1647 as a summary of Christian belief and practice, with the desired intention of helping Christ’s church become unified in doctrine, government, and worship (John 17:11). In addition to the Westminster Standards, we also maintain the Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of

North America, which is our denomination’s own continuing and contemporary application of the Word of God to our current culture and context.

Set Up Schedule:

06/06 – Paul Adamson, Greg Kothman

06/13 – Eric Churchill & Miles Brazil

06/20 – Eric Maupin, Eric Churchill

06/27 – Owen Goggiano, Steve Pilcher

Nursery Schedule:

06/06 – Ashley Maupin & Ynez Goggiano

06/13 – Kobi & Sierra Kothman

06/20 - Sandi Churchill & Shanna Samul

06/27 – Ashley Maupin & Ynez Goggiano

Giving for the Month of June - $1422 (Goal - $4250)

Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

Let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

Psalm 95:6

Great Basin Reformed Presbyterian Church

Today’s Schedule – June 20th, 2021

Catechism ...............................................................................2:30 PM

Evening Worship..................................................................4:30 PM

Psalm of the Month – Psalm 66A

ORDER OF WORSHIP

*Call to Worship                                         Psalm 100

*Praise                                                           Psalm 100C

*Prayer of Invocation

Reading of the Law                                     1 Cor. 13:1-8

Prayer of Confessionc66

*Praise                                                           Psalm 51A

Scripture Reading                                       Exodus 20:1-17

*Praise                                                           Psalm 119Q

Prayer of Intercession

Scripture Reading                                     1 John 2:28-3:10

Psalm of Preparation                                    Psalm 1A

           Prayer of Illumination

           Sermon -                                           “What’s Your Practice?”

           *Psalm of Praise                                              Psalm 99A

*Benediction    

*Tithes/Offerings to GBRPC can be placed in the donation box on the

back welcome table      

What’s Your Practice? (1 John 2:28-3:10)

Introduction

Theme:

Prayer Requests

·      Pray that the Lord would raise up Elders and Deacons at GBRPC

·      Pray for our Elder candidate, Greg Kothman

·      Pray for the building committee

·      Pray for Cindy Grabow who is nor cancer free!

·      Pray for Eric and Sandi’s son, Ryan, who is incarcerated.

·      Pray for Sandi’s coworker Shawn. His wife Pam has passed on and is with the Lord.

·      Pray for the Garrisons and Declan, who was born, but has needed surgeries. He recently had kidney surgery, please pray for a full recovery.

·      Pray for Andrew that he gets a better shift with his job so that he can worship with us each Lord’s Day.

·      Pray for Allison’s grandparents, that their medical and living needs would be met.

·      Pray for wisdom for the Kothmans in dealing with parental health needs. 

·      Pray for Kobi’s friend Kim who had surgery for breast cancer.

·      Pray for RP Church Planters and for Rev. Hemphill as prepares to plant a Church in Boise, ID

·      Pray for Ashley’s former roommate Jess, who has chronic COVID issues.

·      Pray for Eric Maupin who is having ongoing COVID issues

·      Pray for Pastor’s Family friend, Mark, who has Kidney Cancer

·      Pray for Randy who is a missionary in the Middle East

·      Pray for Owen’s coworker Tim who has pancreatic cancer and is not a believer.

·      Pray for Owen’s niece, Carter, who was diagnosed with neutrapina

·      Praise for Shanna’s recovery from ear surgery.

This Week’s Congregational Prayers

Prayer for our Nation

·      Pray that our leaders would come to know Christ and submit to him

·      Pray for repentance and revival in our land

Prayer for our Church

·      Pray for our Covenant Children

·      Pray for future office bearers

Prayer for our Presbytery

·      Pray for more Ruling Elders in our Presbytery

·      Pray for our Church in Fresno, CA

Prayer for our Denomination

·      Pray for the Judicial Commission for Immanuel RPC

·      Pray for vacant pulpits in the RPCNA

Prayer for Missions/Fraternal Denoms

·      Pray the RP of Canada

·      Pray for persecuted brethren

This Week’s Doctrinal Meditation

The Covenant

Sworn and Subscribed by the Synod of The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1871 and by the several congregations

Believing assuredly that in covenanting with God, and thereby binding our souls by oath to fear and serve Him, we do make a near approach into His august and holy presence, and knowing that they only are approved and accepted who come with self-abasement, filled with shame and godly sorrow, and ingenuously confessing and forsaking their sins, according to that word, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” [1 John 1:9], we do now give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto Him.

We do humbly and sincerely confess and lament that we have not duly valued and improved the unsearchable riches of truth and grace in the Holy Scriptures, by making them our constant, earnest and prayerful study, by accepting Christ in all His fulness of saving blessings, and by seeking for the Holy Spirit in His illuminating and renewing grace to apply to our souls the redemption of Christ, and thus reconcile us unto God, and make us partakers of everlasting life.

We acknowledge, with shame, want of faith in God and in the promises and threatenings of His Word, formality in religious services, pride, selfishness, vanity, conformity to the spirit of the world, lukewarmness, untenderness in our walk and in our dealings with others, unwatchfulness, sinful security, and want of spirituality in our disposition and deportment. We are chargeable with remissness in the duties of the closet, the family, the prayer-meeting, and the sanctuary. We have not hallowed the Sabbath by observing it with the care and sacredness required by the divine Commandment. We have shown criminal apathy and unfaithfulness in that we have not cherished love for all men, and especially for the faithful in Christ Jesus, and in that we have not exhorted one another daily, and sought to promote the spiritual growth and holiness of the saints. – The Covenant of 1871

From the Pastor’s Study

“Add, moreover, that, for the best of reasons, the consent of the Church is not without its weight. For it is not to be accounted of no consequence, that, from the first publication of Scripture, so many ages have uniformly concurred in yielding obedience to it, and that, notwithstanding of the many extraordinary attempts which Satan and the whole world have made to oppress and overthrow it, or completely efface it from the memory of men, it has flourished like the palm tree and continued invincible. Though in old times there was scarcely a sophist or orator of any note who did not exert his powers against it, their efforts proved unavailing. The powers of the earth armed themselves for its destruction, but all their attempts vanished into smoke. When thus powerfully assailed on every side, how could it have resisted if it had trusted only to human aid? Nay, its divine origin is more completely established by the fact, that when all human wishes were against it, it advanced by its own energy. Add that it was not a single city or a single nation that concurred in receiving and embracing it. Its authority was recognised as far and as wide as the world extends—various nations who had nothing else in common entering for this purpose into a holy league. Moreover, while we ought to attach the greatest weight to the agreement of minds so diversified, and in all other things so much at variance with each other—an agreement which a Divine Providence alone could have produced—it adds no small weight to the whole when we attend to the piety of those who thus agree; not of all of them indeed, but of those in whom as lights God was pleased that his Church should shine.” -Calvin’s Institutes 1.8.12

This Month at GBRPC

Today (06/20) – If you are a regular visitor please reach out to Rev. Samul about the Faithlife App for giving and Church communication.

Sundays (06/20-06/27) – Mr Jerry Foltz will be filling the pulpit while Rev. Samul is recovering from Synod and on vacation. If you are willing to host please let Greg Kothman know. 

Weds. (06/23) – The Prayer meeting will be held at 4:30PM on Faithlife chat.

Thursday (06/24) – Sandi Churchill will be hosting a ladies Bible study at her house at 6:30PM. The Churchill’s address is 4711 Paso Robles Ct, Sparks, NV

Weds. (09/15) – Catechumens is on break for the summer. We will reconvene in September, and pick up on question 23 of the Shorter Catechism.

                                   Significant Dates in the Congregation

Birthdays

Ginger Kothman 6/5

Easton Pilcher 6/12

Mele Samul 6/20

Eugene Kothman 6/22

Paul Adamson 6/27

Anniversaries