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
Preaching this Sunday will be seminarian James Dickson from Reformed Theological Seminary. He is preaching thoughout New England this summer as part of the New England Center for Evangelical Preaching. He will be preaching on Titus.
VBS is coming to FPCC in Mid August! Details Coming Soon!
Come and join us as we coach
our kids and build them up in
faith with this unique summer program.
The Race Is On takes children from
the miraculous story of Jesus birth
to his death, resurrection and ascension to heaven.
Students will hear the truth of Scripture every day and see the
story of redemption in every lesson.
August 9th - 13th (Monday - Friday)
9:00 am - 12:00 Noon
The First Presbyterian Church of Concord (PCA)
8 Loudon Road
For more information, or to register for this program,Please contact Pastor Doug Domin at (603) 225-7377
UPCOMING SUNDAY LUNCHES
August 15 - Chili Throwdown because August just ain’t Hot enough!
September 19 - Apples, apples, everywhere! (Candy apple contest, apple dishes, etc!)
October 17 - Ein Geschmack von Deutschland
MEN’S BIBLE STUDY AND BREAKFAST
Next Men’s Breakfast will be Saturday, August 14 at 8:00 am. - second Saturday of the month.
Men’s Bible Study meets the first and third Thursdays of the month - July 1 and 15
Men’s early Morning Prayer is Wednesday at 6:30 am. You don’t have to stay the whole time but stop in to pray on your way to work.
LADIES’ BIBLE STUDY AND BREAKFAST
The study will meet Thursday, July 22 at 6:30pm.
The Ladies’ Bible Study is on the book of Philippians.
Ladies Bible Study meets the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 6:30pm.
Ladies Breakfast is the first Saturday of the month. August 7 is the next one at 8:00 AM..
PREPERATION FOR WORSHIP
As you walk down the hallway to come into the place set aside to worship God each week, please be mindful that others are preparing themselves to meet with God. Beginning at 9:50 let us quiet ourselves to meet with the Living God.
“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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