Welcome to First Presbyterian Church of Concord, NH!
Please join at our worship service each Sunday at 10:00 AM. FPCC is located at 8 Loudon Road in Concord.
Sunday School resumes September 27 (9 AM)
 We look forward to meeting you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Our Choir rehearses Tuesday
evenings.
Our worship team rehearses prior to Sunday morning Christian education classes. Bible studies and fellowship groups meet during the week. We also have Wednesday morning prayer at
6:30 am. Please check below for more information as well as our calendar page. Also, please check out our current ministries.
No matter what your spiritual and church background, what your current life situation is, and what hurts and difficulties you are facing, you are welcome
and have a place at First Presbyterian Church of Concord, NH. We
are a committed group of people seeking to know God through Jesus
Christ
so our lives
reflect
His
values,
love, and compassion for others.
Special Announcements
WORSHIP
August 22nd “Needed Reminders, II” Titus 3:1-7
August 29th “He Saved Us” Titus 3:1-7
September 5th “What About Church Discipline?” Titus 3:1-11
September 12th “Devoted, Prepared, and Fruitful” Titus 3:12-15
This Sunday we will examine the needed reminders the Apostle Paul urged Titus to impress upon the church. We constantly are in need of practicing the basics in our lives. For example, as fall sports begin whether it is football, soccer or other athletics, coaches emphasize the basics. In the Christian life it is no different. One particular point Paul emphasizes is the proper use of our speech. Please be praying for God to speak to you as you gather to worship Him.
CHOIR UPDATE
The choir will begin rehearsals in early September (exact date to be announced soon!). As we have done in the past, we will be practicing at the church on Tuesday evenings, beginning at 7:00 PM. We are looking forward to another season of leading in worship through song. Please pray that more members of the congregation will join us this year. Singing is a wonderful way to praise God – and we get to have fun while we’re doing it!
MEN’S BIBLE STUDY AND BREAKFAST
Men’s Bible Study meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 6:00pm. The next men’s breakfast is September 11th at 8:00am. The next men’s Bible Study is September 2nd at 6:00 pm. Men’s early Morning Prayer is Wednesday at 6:30 am.
LADIE'S BREAKFAST
~Ladies Breakfast is the first Saturday of the month.
No breakfast in September due to the Labor Day weekend. Next breakfast will meet October 2nd.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST AT UNH
Emily Guirguis will be with us on September 19th to share her ministry at UNH with Campus Crusade for Christ. Emily had a great year last year and was asked to come on staff with the ministry. Evangelical Campus Ministries whether they be Campus Crusade for Christ, Reformed University Fellowship, Navigators, or others they have a tremendous opportunity to impact young adults for life. It is vital for churches like FPC to support the advancement of the Gospel on our nation’s campuses. In doing so we are also reaching international students without even having to travel to their respective countries. Future world leaders could well be converted by ministries we support.
REFORMED UNIVERSITY MINISTRIES SUNDAY
Every year we have the opportunity to have students, campus pastors and their families, and staff from the various Reformed University Fellowships in New England join us for worship. They worship with us on their way home following their retreat at Camp Berea. This year the date will be October 17th. We have the privilege of supporting this great work of the Gospel by hosting these students and their leaders.
CHURCH LUNCH
Church lunches are on the 3rd Sunday of each month
September 19th - Chili Throwdown!
“Kingdom-Centered Prayer” by Pastor Tim Keller
People are used to thinking about prayer as a means to get their personal needs met. However we should understand prayer as a means to praise and adore God, to know Him, to come into his presence and be changed by Him. We need to better learn how to pray, repent and petition God as a people.
Biblically and historically, the one non-negotiable, universal ingredient in times of spiritual renewal is corporate, prevailing, intensive and kingdom-centered prayer. What is that?
- It is focused on God's presence and kingdom.
Jack Miller talks about the difference between "maintenance prayer" and "frontline" prayer meetings. Maintenance prayer meetings are short, mechanical, and totally focused on physical needs inside the church. But frontline prayer has three basic traits:
- a request for grace to confess sins and humble ourselves
- a compassion and zeal for the flourishing of the church
- a yearning to know God, to see his face, to see his glory.
It is most interesting to study Biblical prayer for revival, such as in Acts 4 or Exodus 33 or Nehemiah 1, where these three elements are easy to see. Notice in Acts 4, for example, that the disciples, whose lives had been threatened, did not ask for protection for themselves and their families, but only boldness to keep preaching!
- It is bold and specific.
The characteristics of this kind of prayer include:
- Pacesetters in prayer spend time in self-examination. Without a strong understanding of grace, this can be morbid and depressing. But in the context of the gospel, it is purifying and strengthening. They "take off their ornaments" (Exod. 33:1-6). They examine selves for idols and set them aside.
- They then begin to make the big request–a sight of the glory of God. That includes asking: 1) for a personal experience of the glory/presence of God ("that I may know you" – Exod. 33:13); 2) for the people's experience of the glory of God (v. 15); and 3) that the world might see the glory of God through his people (v. 16). Moses asks that God's presence would be obvious to all: "What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?" This is a prayer that the world be awed and amazed by a show of God's power and radiance in the church, that it would become truly the new humanity that is a sign of the future kingdom.
- It is prevailing, corporate.
By this we mean simply that prayer should be constant, not sporadic and brief. Why? Are we to think that God wants to see us grovel? Why do we not simply put our request in and wait? But sporadic, brief prayer shows a lack of dependence, a self-sufficiency, and thus we have not built an altar that God can honor with his fire. We must pray without ceasing, pray long, pray hard, and we will find that the very process is bringing about that which we are asking for – to have our hard hearts melted, to tear down barriers, to have the glory of God break through.
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