Song: Saviour Of The World Welcome: Call to Worship Song: This I Believe – (The Creed) Prayer Of Confession Song: God Is Our Strength And Refuge Affirming our Faith: New City Catechism 20 Song: Now To Him Who Loved Us Bible Reading: Luke 2: 22-52 – The infant Jesus is presented in the temple, Simeon’s …
Popular culture and social media has made failure into a status symbol, but usually presents failing as an egalitarian stepping stone to entail success. Almost like a rite of passage. David Zahl points out that this cultural tendency to gloss over failure as a stepping stone to success short-changes the suffering of those who fail, …
The resurrection life is central to Christian experience, but the resurrection life derives its meaning in the completed work of the cross. From Fleming Rutledge: What then is the resurrection? It is the vindication of the crucified One. The resurrection doesn’t cancel out the crucifixion as if it were only a passing episode to be …
The church gathers to worship God receiving truths inherited from the past and expressing them in present contexts with a view to future hope. From Michael Kelley: During Joshua’s lifetime, the people worshiped faithfully, having their worship formed by their past. But they were only one generation away from forgetting all God had done, and …
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