Welcome to Hopewell!: Lovelies of the Lovely One [Family Worship lesson in Song of Songs 2:1

Friday, December 05, 2025

Lovelies of the Lovely One [Family Worship lesson in Song of Songs 2:1–2]

How beautiful is the bride? Song of Songs 2:1–2 prepares us for the evening sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the bride is beautiful with the King’s beauty. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson) The passage reveals Christ as the ultimate source and definition of beauty, affirming His identity as the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valleys. He delights in His bride because He has transformed her from a state of thorn-like fallenness into a likeness of Himself. Her beauty is not self-derived but a participation in His, reflecting the divine purpose to conform believers to the image of His Son. Identity with Adam’s fallen lineage is replaced by union with the last Adam, urging believers to cultivate Christ-esteem rather than self-esteem, and to treat one another with the same delight and hope that Christ has in His bride.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

▫Midweek Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, November 26. 6:30p in the Chapel. (see the Prayer Meeting Folder) We will hear a devotional then PRAY until around 8 p.m.

▫Children’s Catechism for November 30. Q28 What is Sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God. [CC 28 Simply Explained: “Understanding Sin, before God, since the Garden”]

▫Shorter Catechism for November 30. Q5. Are there more Gods than one? There is but one only, the living and true God. [WSC 5 Simply Explained: “The One, True, Triune God”]

▫Memory Verse for November 30, Matthew 25:34, Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’”

▫Songs for public worship on November 30: TPH87A, ARP52, ARP15

▫Session Meeting, Wednesday, December 10, at 8p.m. in the Pastor’s Study.

▫Monthly Men’s Breakfast, Saturday, December 27, 7a in the Fellowship Hall

Weekly Schedule: Study, Worship, Fellowship, and Pray with Hopewell!

Each Lord's Day
9:50a - Free full breakfast during…
10a - Sabbath School for all ages
11a - Public Worship (current series: Matthew)
1p - Coffee/Fellowship Time
1p - Catechism Class
1:15p - Shared Food Fellowship (there's always plenty, so come!)
2:50p - Memory Verse Recitations and Song Requests
3:00p - Psalm/hymn Sing
3:45p - Evening Sermon (current series: Song of Songs)

Wednesdays
6:30p in the Chapel - Midweek Prayer Meeting for all ages. We hear a sermon from Proverbs and then join all together in prayer led by men, before splitting into groups and individuals for intercession, thus balancing being led in praying corporately together with giving everyone an opportunity to pray out loud and covering our requests list.

Every Day in Your Home
You are the most important individual on earth in your and your children's spiritual lives!

Scripture teaches us that shepherd-teachers and every other member of the church are given as gifts from Jesus to help us grow up into Him. But there is nothing that anyone else can do that will substitute for daily worship of Him, by those means that He has appointed, through which He works in us by His grace.

The Hopewell at Home daily devotional guide is a weekly publication that comes alongside to facilitate personal and family devotions. Freshly written every week by a pastor who knows those entrusted to his spiritual care (Heb 13:17), it not only enables you to see the meaning of the text by asking simple, inductive questions, but also gives a sample exposition and application for you to use for yourself, as a couple, or as a family.

Other Service, Fellowship, and Worship Opportunities
The ministry of the Gospel at Hopewell focuses especially upon those church activities started and commanded by Christ Himself. While formalized/programmed events can be useful to get us going, our elders encourage us to take the initiative ourselves.

Some examples have included a ladies' book club, sidewalk ministry at Planned Parenthood of Nashville, and a ladies' fellowship tea put on by some of the youngest ladies in the congregation.

What ministries will you be starting, or are you already participating in, that you will use to encourage the rest of the church in walking with the Lord?

Men's Breakfasts
Led by one of our elders, on the 4th Saturday of each month, men ages 1-121 gather for breakfast at 7 a.m. and read and discuss some profoundly helpful Scripture or scriptural book. We’re currently studying Building a Godly Home, v1: A Holy Vision for Family Life by William Gouge—the first volume of a masterfully exposited and applied treatment of Ephesians 5:21–6:9.

// Required code BLB.Tagger.DarkTheme = true;