Christmas Cantata-

Please join us for our Christmas Cantata
"We Have Our Savior"

December 14 & 15

 6:00pm

Jamaica Mission Trip 2014

We've gotten the green light from the Missions Team, and the  youth team Jamaica Missions Trip is a go. This year, we hope to accomplish great things for God in Jamaica. Currently, we are planning to go this spring break. As exciting as that is, it also means our fund raising time isn't as prolonged as it was last time; so we are kicking our fundraising into high gear.

If you have any work or donations for our team, please contact Merv Wyse.

Challenge for 2013

The New City Catechism is a compilation and adaptation of three historic catechisms from the Reformation era. Condensed to 52 questions, it is ideally suited to work through in a year studying one Q/A each week.

Each Q/A page has four aids to help study and reflect on the theme: Scriptures, Commentary, a brief Video Lesson, and a Prayer. An abbreviated answer for young children is contained (with highlighted text) within the longer answer for older children and adults. You can find the web page here.

Overcoming Sin

I had a great time with the 'Saints Alive' and 'SayIt' youth groups last night and thought I'd post the quote I shared with them. For a long time I had wrestled with how to understand Psalm 119:32,

"I will run in the way of your commandments

when you enlarge my heart."

Then, while reading Overcoming Sin and Temptation, which is a recent compilation of three classic books by John Owen (1616-1683) edited by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor, I came across this passage in Kapic's introduction:

"To respond to the distorting nature of sin you must set your affections on the beauty and glory of God, the loveliness of Christ, and the wonder of the gospel: [Kapic then quotes Owen:] 'Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things... what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with its envenomed baits, have unto our souls?' Resisting sin, [according to Owen], comes not by deadening your affections but by awakening them to God himself. Do not seek to empty your cup as a way to avoid sin but rather seek to fill it up with the Spirit of Life, so there is no longer room for sin."

Psalm 119:32 made complete sense in the light of Owen's skillful insight.