Randy Alcorn is supporting his wife, Nanci, through her season of cancer. God is supporting them both. He writes about the experience of God using the very situations that nobody wants as the circumstances in which faith and Christlikeness grows: If asked, “Do you want to be closer to Jesus, and more like him?” we …

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Gavin Ortlund offers seven areas in which pastors manifest affection (in contrast to love) for those the congregations they serve. He finishes by writing: See them through God’s eyes These people are the sheep of the shepherd. God loves them with a jealous, yearning, husband-like love: “Love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as …

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Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 40 105. Q. What does God require in the sixth commandment? A. That I am not to abuse, hate, injure, or kill my neighbor, either with thought, or by word or gesture, much less by deed, whether by myself or through another, but to lay aside all desire for revenge; …

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Song: Jerusalem Welcome: Call to Worship Song: No Other Name Prayer Of Confession Song: Alas, And Did My Saviour Bleed? Affirming our Faith: Song: Worship, Honour, Glory, Blessing Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 Bible Memorisation: Ecclesiastes 3:11 Song: All Things Bright And Beautiful Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 Sermon: Nothing But Endless Repeats Song: This Is My …

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