This morning we had a great time of studying the Word and spending time together as believers.  Bobby Endyk walked us through Philippians 1:12-18, with great discussion along the way.  The pumpkin roll and banana bread were amazing as well.

Sermon of the Week

The sermon of the week is actually a series on election by Pastor Mike Abendroth.  Pastor Abendroth is a friend of mine from Massachusetts where he is an elder at Bethlehem Bible Church.  This sermon series was very helpful to me as I was starting to come to an understanding of what the Bible meant by election.  The series is formatted as answers to “frequently asked questions” about election.  He was kind enough to give me permission to post them here for you to listen to.

Ministry’s Only Hope: Election Part 1

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Ministry’s Only Hope: Election Part 2

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Ministry’s Only Hope: Election Part 3

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Ministry’s Only Hope: Election Part 4

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Ministry’s Only Hope: Election Part 5

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Ministry’s Only Hope: Election Part 6

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Ministry’s Only Hope: Election Part 7

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Song of the Week

Marcus sent me this song to use as song of the week this week and its an awesome one to use to draw your attention to God and His glory.  Sing along and enjoy the God you serve.

Book of the Week

The book of the week is The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God by D.A. Carson.  Here are some quotes from the first chapter to whet your interest:

To put this another way, we live in a culture in which
many other and complementary truths about God are widely
disbelieved. I do not think that what the Bible says about the love
of God can long survive at the forefront of our thinking if it is
abstracted from the sovereignty of God, the holiness of God, the
wrath of God, the providence of God, or the personhood of
God—to mention only a few nonnegotiable elements of basic
Christianity.
The result, of course, is that the love of God in our culture has
been purged of anything the culture finds uncomfortable. The
love of God has been sanitized, democratized, and above all sentimentalized.
This process has been going on for some time. My
generation was taught to sing, “What the world needs now is
love, sweet love,” in which we robustly instruct the Almighty
that we do not need another mountain (we have enough of them),
but we could do with some more love. The hubris is staggering.

Precisely how does one integrate what the Bible says about the
love of God with what the Bible says about God’s sovereignty,
extending as it does even over the domain of evil? What does
love mean in a Being whom at least some texts treat as impassible?
How is God’s love tied to God’s justice?

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Hope you enjoy some of these materials.  Take a look and bring your questions to our next meeting on February 13.

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