Gathering together with other Christians in worship is an act of encouragement to them. And that’s before you even do anything else. From Jared Wilson: AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO OTHERS Your church attendance is an encouragement to others. This is especially true in smaller to medium-sized congregations, but it’s even true in very large local …
Song: Your Love Defends Me Welcome: Call to Worship Song: In Christ Alone Prayer Of Confession Song: The King Of Love My Shepherd Is Affirming our Faith: Westminster Shorter Catechism Q26 Song: Now To Him Who Loved Us Bible Reading: 1 Timothy 1:1-24 – Salutation and warnings against false teachers; their doctrines contrasted with the …
Local churches don’t need more people to come along to save them. They have the task of sharing with others about the one who has already saved them. From Sarah Condon: The fact of the matter is that most of our ideas about how to fix the church are terrible, my own included. We over-exaggerate …
More musing from fictional pastor Jonas McAnn, as written by Winn Collier: If the idea of providence means anything, then it must a least mean that our life consists of all manner of truths and experiences we would never imagine and could never orchestrate. The old mystics liked to say that “all is gift.” I …
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