The Heidelberg Catechism - The Foundations Of Our Faith

Call To Worship Mark 4:26-29 Growing.. fathers children, young men!  Now John begins to write to Christians in differing stages of spiritual maturity.   Mark 4: 26 And He said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.28 For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.29 But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." Law and Grace Reading Psalm 86 1John 2:12-17  The Source Of Your Significance Benediction Romans 16: 25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began26 but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of...

Call to Worship Psalm  27:1-9 Isa 49:6 he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth." 7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you." Psa 104:1,2  1   Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, 2 covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. Psa 36: 9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light. John 1:44 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.5 The light shines in t...

Chapter 8 of Trellis And the Vine Hi folks Here is the next chapter in our church training section. Every Blessing as we chat about church structures enabling church ministry on Thursday night. Chapter 8. Why Sunday sermons are necessary but not sufficient We've come to the point in the flow of our argument where we need to pause and consider in more detail how the model of training and growth we are proposing collides with the reality of our existing church structures and models and practices. Because collide it will. By far the greatest obstacle to rethinking and reforming our ministries is the inertia of tradition—whether the long-held traditions of our denominations and churchmanship, or the more recent traditions of the church growth movement that have become a kind of unspoken orthodoxy in many evangelical churches. We will get to the somewhat alarming proposition contained in this chapter's title in ...