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Heritage Covenant Church - Family and Homeschool Friendly Reformed Church
Heritage Covenant Church - family and homeschooling
friendly gathering of Reformed Christian believers located in North Texas (Parker and
Tarrant County)
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Heritage Covenant Church is a family and homeschooling
friendly Christian church meeting in Weatherford, Texas. We are reformed and
covenantal in faith and life practice, believing the whole Bible speaks to the whole of life’s
issues and disciplines.
HCC is a member of the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches
(www.crechurches.org),
the Augustine Presbytery.
Other CREC churches in Texas include:
St. David's Church, Houston,
TX (www.crechouston.org)
Grace Covenant Church, Nacogdoches, TX (www.GCov.org)
Christ Covenant Church, San Antonio, TX (www.christcovenantsa.org)
For additional information
about Heritage Covenant Church:
click HERE for
FAQs
write us at phurdwford@aol.com
or call
Patrick Hurd, Elder - 817-401-9155
Thomas Smith, Deacon - 940-682-2052
David Fergon, Deacon - 817-594-6621
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Schedule
of Services
Thru Nov 2008 - Harberger
Hill - 10:30am
Please call to confirm place
and time of services.
Schedule
of Events
Heidelberg
Catechism
Q 1. What is thy
only comfort in life and death?
Answer. That I with body and soul, both in
life and death, (a) am not my own, (b) but belong unto my faithful Saviour
Jesus Christ; (c) who, with his precious blood, has fully satisfied for all my
sins, (d) and delivered me from all the power of the devil; (e) and so
preserves me (f) that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can
fall from my head; (g) yea, that all things must be subservient to my
salvation, (h) and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, He also assures me of
eternal life, (i) and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to
live unto him. (j)
(a) Rom.14:7,8. (b) 1 Cor.6:19. (c) 1 Cor.3:23;
Tit.2:14. (d) 1 Pet.1:18,19; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:2,12. (e) Heb.2:14; 1 John
3:8; John 8:34-36. (f) John 6:39; John 10:28; 2 Thess.3:3; 1 Pet.1:5. (g)
Matt.10:29-31; Luke 21:18. (h) Rom.8:28. (i) 2 Cor.1:20-22; 2 Cor.5:5;
Eph.1:13,14; Rom.8:16. (j) Rom.8:14; 1 John 3:3.
Q. 2. How many things are necessary for thee
to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayest live and die happily?
A. Three; (a) the first, how great my sins and
miseries are; (b) the second, how I may be delivered from all my sins and
miseries; (c) the third, how I shall express my gratitude to God for such
deliverance. (d)
(a) Matt.11:28-30; Luke 24:46-48; 1 Cor.6:11;
Tit.3:3-7. (b) John 9:41; John 15:22. (c) John 17:3; Acts 4:12; Acts 10:43.
(d) Eph.5:8-11; 1 Pet.2:9,10; Rom.6:1,2,12,13.
Q. 3. Whence knowest thou thy misery?
A. Out of the law of God. (a)
(a) Rom.3:20.
Q. 4. What does the law of God require of us?
A. Christ teaches us that briefly, Matt.
22:37-40, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first
and the great commandment; and the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets." (a)
(a) Deut.6:5; Lev.19:18; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27.
Q. 5. Canst thou keep all these things
perfectly?
A. In no wise; (a) for I am prone by nature to
hate God and my neighbour.(b)
(a) Rom.3:10,20,23; 1 John 1:8,10. (b) Rom.8:7;
Eph.2:3; Tit.3:3; Gen.6:5; Gen.8:21; Jer.17:9; Rom.7:23.
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Westminster
Creed
- I believe man’s chief end is to
glorify God, and to enjoy him forever;
- I believe God is a Spirit, infinite,
eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness,
justice, goodness, and truth;
- I believe there is but one true and
living God; that there are three persons in the Godhead: the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and that these three are one God, the
same in substance, equal in power and glory;
- I believe God has foreordained
whatever comes to pass; that God made all things of nothing, by the
word of His power, in the space of six days, and all very good; and
that God preserves and governs all His creatures and all their
actions;
- I believe our first parents, though
created in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, sinned against God,
by eating the forbidden fruit; and that their fall brought mankind
into an estate of sin and misery;
- I believe God determined, out of His
mere good pleasure, to deliver His elect out of the estate of sin and
misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a redeemer;
- I believe the only Redeemer of
God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of
God, became man, and so was, and continues to be, God and man in two
distinct natures, and one person, forever;
- I believe Christ, as our Redeemer,
executes the office of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king;
- I believe Christ as our Redeemer
underwent the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, the cursed
death of the cross, and burial; He rose again from the dead on the
third day, ascended up into heaven, sits at the right hand of God, the
Father, and is coming to judge the world at the last day.
- I believe we are made partakers of
the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it
to us by his Holy Spirit;
- I believe God requires of us faith in
Jesus Christ, and repentance unto life to escape the wrath and curse
of God due to us for sin;
- I believe by His free grace we are
effectually called, justified, and sanctified, and gathered into the
visible church, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of
salvation;
- I believe that we also are given in
this life such accompanying benefits as assurance of God’s love,
peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and
perseverance therein to the end; that at death, we are made perfect in
holiness, and immediately pass into glory; and our bodies, being still
united in Christ, rest in their graves, till the resurrection; and at
the resurrection, we shall be raised up in glory, we shall openly be
acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly
blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
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