Song: How Sweet The Name Of Jesus Sounds Welcome: Alan Fox Call to Worship Song: Arise, My Soul Arise Prayer Of Confession Song: The LORD’s My Shepherd Affirming our Faith: The Apostles’ Creed Song: Now To Him Who Loved Us Bible Reading: 2 Corinthians 6: 1-18 – The description of the gospel ministry of reconciliation …
Zack Eswine reminds us that we don’t have to feel sorry for John the baptist. He was not eclipsed by Jesus. He was everything he was meant to be. There’s liberty in that lesson for all of us. The freedom in admitting our limitations is that we get to follow John the Baptist’s footsteps and …
A graceless heart can be at the centre of what appears to be a commendable life. Not demonstrably bad, even hardworking and knowledgeable. But graceless hearts grumble. From Jared Longshore at Founders Ministries: Jesus found grumbling so off putting that he lined up three parables to fix it. We are commanded in the Bible to …
The first of two posts by Steve McAlpine interacting with the basic ideas expressed in the post by Murray Lean I linked to last week called The Creeping Trend Of Church Absenteeism. Two significant points that I liked were firstly; McAlpine’s reservations about motivating people to more frequent attendance through guilt or greater effort. And …
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