About

Our goal in corporate worship is to glorify and enjoy God together. We seek to praise our Triune God (Father, Son and Spirit) according to his will as revealed in Scripture. We follow a traditional Reformed order of worship: 1) we encounter an awesome God, and give him praise; 2) we encounter a holy God, and confess our sin; 3) we encounter a merciful God, and give him thanks; 4) we encounter an all-wise God, and listen to his Word; and 5) we encounter a bountiful God, and receive his blessing. In this effort, we use both classic hymns and modern songs, organs and guitars and above all our voices so that together we "may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 15.6). Amidst the formal aspects of our worship, there is a warmth within the congregation and real joy in worshiping God together.

KHPC is a congregation that rejoices in God's absolute rule in all things from creation, to salvation, to new creation. This theological emphasis is often called "Reformed" or "Calvinism", but the most accurate term is "Biblical." We are convinced of God's loving, wise and irrestible working out of all things for our ultimate good and His glory (Romans 8.28-30, Ephesians 1.3-14). We do not believe this just because great theologians like Augustine, Calvin, or Edwards have taught it. Rather, we believe, preach, teach and celebrate God's sovereignty in all things because of the clear witness of both the Old and New Testaments.

It is the Bible alone that informs, transforms and reforms us (2 Timothy 3.15-17) as individual believers and as the body of Christ. As the Westminster Confession of Faith affirms, "The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men and private interpretations are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture" (1.10).