The effort to recover the priesthood of all believers can’t be an effort to impose a pastorhood of all believers. Something is lost if everyone is pressganged into some form of pastoral function. More is lost if everyone doesn’t understand that whatever it is they are doing is their expression of the priestly function we’re …
Song: I Will Glory In My Redeemer Welcome: Call to Worship Song: Come, People Of The Risen King Prayer Of Confession Song: I Am So Glad (Jesus Loves Even Me) Affirming our Faith: New City Catechism 22 Song: Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow Bible Reading: Luke 4: 1-30 – The temptation of Jesus …
Jesus is not a life coach. He’s not providing an example to follow, or teaching techniques to get us through the day or tough situations. What he invites us to do is die with him. From Chad Bird: Likewise, to take up our cross daily doesn’t mean to shoulder our personal cares and concerns. Jesus …
It’s because Jesus knows us completely that he knows how completely we need to be saved. And that’s how he reveals the gracious magnitude of God’s love. From Chad Bird: Jesus knows good and well that there’s nothing inside us worth believing in. In fact, everything inside us looks absolutely untrustworthy. If anything, when the …
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