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Beloved, We will have the opportunity to participate in the Lord's Supper this coming Sunday. Below is a quote from Mathew Henry in Method of Prayer to help you prepare for this valuable means of grace (italics and bolding are mine): "Most holy, and blessed, and gracious Lord God, will all humility and reverence, I here present myself before Thee, to seek Thy face and en...
Keep ReadingDear Christ Community Church, Our next sermon series which starts this Sunday is called "The Church is Called to be...: Gleanings From Paul's Letters." The series is born out of thinking about how those in our various contexts should describe our church as we seek to live as a kingdom of priests in the midst of a fallen world. I would love for Christ Community to be de...
Keep ReadingDear Beloved in Christ, We will observe the Lord's Supper this coming Sunday, and I wanted to give a few words of encouragement as we prepare to receive the sacrament. I am looking forward to participating in my first Lord's Supper with you all! I love how the Larger Catechism expresses what we truly receive when we participate in a worthy manner in the Lord's Supper. I ...
Keep ReadingOfficial Greetings to Our Christ Community Family, I am humbled and excited to report to you that things went very well at the Northwest Georgia Presbytery Meeting on Saturday. The elders that were present from the various churches in the presbytery were very encouraging and supportive. I am looking forward to our church participating with them in glorifying God and lov...
Keep Reading~from theVillage Church blog. http://www.thevillagechurch.net/the-village-blog/lent-into-the-wilderness O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power and idle talk.But give me rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to my servant.Yea, O Lord and King!Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my b...
Keep Reading6 Things Holding You Back from Making a Difference. Article by Neal Samudre, from Relevant Magazine. Read more at:http://www.relevantmagazine.com/reject-apathy/worldview/6-things-holding-you-back-making-difference#t3eqvu1duSMXo5f4.99 "As a child, I used to dream of changing the world. But now, I no longer treat that dream as a reality. That desire to dream big and make ...
Keep Reading2 Corinthians 4:7 "As this year draws to a close, receive My Peace. This is still your deepest need, and I, your Prince of Peace, long to pour Myself into your neediness. My abundance and your emptiness are a perfect match. I designed you to have no sufficiency of your own. I created you as a jar of clay, set apart for sacred use. I want you to be filled with My very Be...
Keep ReadingPsalm 42:9 "Why must I go about mourning? "Can you answer this, believer? Can you find any reason why you are so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told you that the night would never end in day? Who told you that the sea of circumstances would ebb out 'til there should be nothing left but long leagues of the mud of horrible povert...
Keep Reading"I'm a thirty-something with two kids living a more or less ordinary life. And what I'm slowly realizing is that, for me, being in the house all day with a baby and a two-year-old is a lot more scary and a lot harder than being in a war-torn African village. What I need courage for is the ordinary, the daily every-dayness of life. Caring for a homeless kid is a lot more th...
Keep ReadingDistractions As my Covenant Group has been working through Matt Chandler's study in Philippians for the past several weeks, God has used him to bring forth some very difficult questions that I have to answer, particularly about my passions and affections toward Jesus. When I read Paul say things like, "I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowin...
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