The Church of Canton

Prayer and Worship

This Prayer and Worship gathering walks through the Lord’s Prayer as a guide for shaping both our worship and daily lives. It emphasizes approaching God as our holy and personal Father, reorienting our hearts to honor His name, seek His kingdom, and surrender to His will above our own. Each petition invites both corporate and personal response—calling believers to depend on God for provision, walk in forgiveness as recipients of grace, and rely on His strength to resist temptation and evil.
Through Scripture, guided prayers, and moments of reflection, this gathering leads the church into deeper reverence, surrender, and trust, ultimately inviting participants to align their lives with the reality of heaven and respond in ongoing prayer and worship to the King of Kings.

The Attributes of God: God is Eternal

You’ve spent these weeks learning who God really is—not just to know about Him, but to actually know Him, trust Him, and build your life on Him. Because God never changes, everything else eventually will, so real life and transformation come from staying connected to Him and letting His character shape yours.
All of God’s attributes—His power, faithfulness, wisdom, and love—ultimately point to this: He is eternal, completely outside of time, unchanging, and always who He is. And that matters because we aren’t eternal on our own—we need Him.
Through Jesus, the eternal God stepped into our timeline so we could step into His life, not just someday, but now. And baptism is the moment we publicly say, “My life is no longer my own—I belong to Him,” marking a real, present relationship with the God who lasts forever.

The Attributes of God: God is Faithful

God’s faithfulness means He is completely trustworthy—like a perfect hinge, He never shifts, fails, or changes, and everything He does flows out of His unchanging character, fully revealed in Jesus. So even when life feels unstable or doesn’t make sense, you can anchor your trust in who God is, knowing He will always keep His promises and hold you steady.

The Attributes of God: God is Sovereign

Isaiah reveals a sovereign God who alone rules over all things, contrasting His power and faithfulness with the emptiness of idols, and calling His people to trust Him even in exile and uncertainty. This message unpacks how God’s sovereignty works alongside our free will, inviting us to surrender control, trust His purposes in every circumstance, and live with confidence that He is always working for our good and His glory.

The Attributes of God: God is Love

God’s love is often misunderstood as either too easy or too hard, but while it is freely given by grace, it came at the ultimate cost—the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This message unpacks how God’s love pursues us, meets us in our brokenness, and calls us to receive it by faith, be transformed by it, and reflect it to the world.

Good Friday

As we remember Good Friday, Jesus’ final seven statements from the cross reveal forgiveness, salvation, compassion, suffering, and ultimate triumph. In His last words, we see the heart of the gospel—and the invitation to trust, follow, and live transformed by His finished work.

The Attributes of God: God is Gracious

This sermon unpacks how God’s grace isn’t just forgiveness—it’s His active power in our everyday weakness, giving us what we don’t deserve while withholding what we do. Through Paul’s story, we’re reminded that real strength isn’t found in having it all together, but in trusting that even when the struggle doesn’t go away, God’s presence and grace are more than enough.

The Attributes of God: God is Merciful

This message unpacks God’s mercy as the heart of who He is—shown through His love, compassion, and grace. It highlights how mercy and truth always go together: God doesn’t ignore sin, but He meets us with forgiveness and a clear path forward.
From Moses to Jesus to the cross, we see that God’s mercy isn’t just a one-time gift—it’s something we live in daily. It calls us to repent, trust Him, and reflect that same mercy to others.
A simple but powerful reminder: what God is holding back is what we deserve—and what He offers instead is grace, renewal, and new mercy every single day.

The Attributes of God: God is Just

God’s justice is perfect, rooted in His righteous character, and carried out in His timing and ways—not ours—calling us to trust Him rather than take matters into our own hands. At the cross, God fully satisfies justice and extends mercy through Jesus, proving that while we may not understand His justice, we can rely on it completely.

The Attributes of God: God is Righteous

God’s righteousness means that everything about Him—His character, His decisions, and His judgments—is perfectly right, pure, and just. Because He is righteous, sin creates separation from Him, and by His holy nature He must turn from unrighteousness. Yet through Jesus Christ, who embodies God’s righteousness, our sin is exchanged for His perfection so that by faith we can stand before God declared righteous and live lives that reflect His character.