Song: Take My Life And Let It Be Welcome Call to Worship Song: Your Love So High Prayer Of Confession Song: God Whose Almighty Word Affirming our Faith: The Apostles’ Creed Song: Now To Him Who Loved Us Bible Reading: 2 Corinthians 9:1-15 – In chapters 8 and 9 generous giving on behalf of the …

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A couple of articles by Marty Duran about ‘Pastoral Leadership Capital’ which is a term for the trust that a pastor can build with a congregation that enables needed change to be implemented, or even mis-steps to be forgiven and moved on from. There are two parts here and here. Part one. In my opinion, …

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An excerpt from Tim Keller’s book, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work. It speaks to someone who stubbornly resists a week off. Anyone who cannot obey God’s command to observe the Sabbath is a slave, even a self-imposed one. Your own heart, or our materialistic culture, or an exploitative organization, or all …

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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 21 Chapter 13 – Of Sanctification I. They who are effectually called and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified, really and personally, through the virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection, by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them; the …

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