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October 26, 2025
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Core Value #3: Christ Glorifies God
We value the Glory of God. We preeminently value the unique and holy God. All of history has but one purpose, to glorify God through the redemption of His people (Ephesians 1:6, 12, 14, 3:11; Revelation 4:11, 5:9, 7:9). We are committed to magnifying the praise and glory of God by delighting in His salvation and service, while calling others to do the same. We will meet with God weekly to worship Him, to confess Him, to hear from Him, and to fellowship with Him around the Table to which He calls us. We seek to reflect in the diversity of our congregation the promise and plan of God that all nations will gather in worship before the throne of God (Jeremiah 3:17, Isaiah 66:18, Revelation 7:9). We recognize this weekly meeting is a foretaste of the glory yet to be revealed (Luke 22:15, 16, 28-30; Revelation 7:9-12, 19:7-10).

~ “CRC Core Values” by Pastor Don Willeman

“What are you really living for? It’s crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You’re always making something look big.”

~ Resolving Everyday Conflict by Ken Sande, contemporary engineer, lawyer and author

“I don’t care what they may know,
I don’t care where they may go,
I don’t care what they may know,
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah.”

~ “Jesus is Just Alright” by the Doobie Brothers

“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’”

~ Matthew 25:21

“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare…. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

~ “The Weight of Glory” by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer and Christian apologist

Sermon Passage

Psalm 19:1-6, Isaiah 6:1-3, John 1:14-18, John 12:41-43, John 17:5, 24 (ESV)

Psalm 19

1 The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
2 Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose voice is not heard.
4 Their voice goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
5 which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
6 Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
and its circuit to the end of them,
and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Isaiah 6

1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”

John 1

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

John 12

41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. 42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

John 17

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.