Christian life is not a solo pursuit. To finish strong in the faith Christians need the support and accountability of a community of other Christians. And those other Christians need you to help them finish well too. A new setting for the hymn Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) will be introduced as we prepare …
Mark Buchanan marks Canadian thanksgiving with an observation and application about the cruciform and eucharistic dimensions of Christian life: The Christian life has two basic shapes: cruciform and eucharistic. It is about giving and thanksgiving. It is about dying to self, and abounding in gratitude. Like Christ, we are called to live cruciform lives – …
Talk among the local pastors this morning turned to planting churches. The conversation covered various hair-raising stories, and involved church plants which have gone on and others which didn’t take root. Which got us onto remembering that churches are born and grow not according to human will but the sovereign purpose of God. This observation …
I’ve written before how Jeremiah 29:11 (“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future”) has turned into the John 3:16 (For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only …
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