Jul 26, 2011
Jul 22, 2011
Jul 14, 2011
Guest Speakers: Missionaries Dan & Laurie Fuller, August 14
Dan & Laurie Fuller, daughters Camilla & Hannah
Dan, Laurie and their daughters will be with us in Sunday School
and the Morning Worship Service on Sunday, August 14.
They will be sharing about their life in Thailand and how our
financial support helps to enable them to minister the love of Christ to the
people of that country.
The last time they were with us was four years ago. Much has
happened in that time and we're anxious to hear of what the
Lord is doing in Thailand.
Their oldest daughter, Camilla, will be attending
New Tribes Bible Institute in Jackson, MI this fall.
The Fullers will return to Thailand at the end of August with
their daughter Hannah.
Please plan on attending these services
and please be in prayer for Dan, Laurie, Camilla and Hannah.
Jul 12, 2011
Jul 5, 2011
Jul 4, 2011
July 4th
Happy July 4th!
Now the Lord is the Spirit,
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV
Jul 2, 2011
Birthdays this month...
July Birthdays
Craig McGlassion - July 1
Craig James - July 14
Marianne Ashby - July 22
Wayne Sourbeck - July 26
Louis Blevins - July 29
Wrong thoughts about God...
The church’s great danger: Wrong thoughts about God“Wrong ideas about God are not only the fountain from which the polluted waters of idolatry flow; they are themselves idolatrous. The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true.
Perverted notions about God soon rot the religion in which they appear. The long career of Israel demonstrates this clearly enough, and the history of the Church confirms it. So necessary to the Church is a lofty concept of God that when that concept in any measure declines, the Church with her worship and her moral standards decline along with it. The first step down for any church is taken when it surrenders its high opinion of God.
Before the Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is, and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind.”
- A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (HarperCollins: San Francisco), 1961, p. 4.
Jun 27, 2011
Vacation Bible School, 2011
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Vacation Bible School
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Grace....
"Many people pay lip service to the idea of grace, but they stop there. Their conception of grace is not so much debased as nonexistent. The thought means nothing to them; it does not touch their experience at all. What is it that hinders so many who profess to believe in grace from really doing so? Why does the theme mean so little even to some who talk about it a great deal? The root of the trouble seems to be misbelief about the basic relationship between a person and God; misbelief rooted not just in the mind but in the heart, at the deeper level of things that we never question because we always take them for granted, the doctrines of grace presupposes, and if they are not acknowledged and felt in one's heart, clear faith in God's grace become impossible. The moral ill desert of humankind, the retributive justice of God, the spiritual impotence of humankind and the sovereign freedom of God."
J.I. Packer, Knowing God
Jun 26, 2011
Jun 22, 2011
Something to think about...
"By nature, you are completely addicted to this legal method of salvation. Even after you become a Christian by believing the Gospel, your heart is still addicted to salvation by works. In your heart you still want to make the duties of the law come before the comforts of the Gospel. You find it hard to believe that you should get any blessing before you work for it. This is the mindset you tend to fall into: You sincerely do want to obey the laws of God. Therefore, to make sure you obey the law of God you make all of God's blessings depend upon how well you keep his law. Some preachers even tell you that you had better not enjoy the blessings of the Gospel! They tell you to diligently obey the law first and that only by doing this will you be safe and happy before God. Just keep in mind, however, that as you go this route, you will never enjoy your salvation for as long as you live in this world."
Walter Marshall, 1628-1680
Walter Marshall, 1628-1680
Jun 20, 2011
Downriver Cruise, 2011
This Saturday, June 25...beginning at 10:00 a.m.
We're meeting in front of the
Downriver Christian Library
3755 Fort St., Lincoln Park
Come join us as we
share the Good News and
see some great cars!
see some great cars!
Jun 19, 2011
Jun 13, 2011
A New Creature
"The Christian is a new creature, born and taught from above. He has been convinced of his guilt and misery as a sinner, has fled for refuge to the hope set before him, has seen his Son and believed on Him: his natural prejudices against the glory and grace of God's salvation have been subdued and silenced by almighty power; he has accepted the Beloved and is made acceptable in Him; he now knows the Lord; has renounced the confused, distant, uncomfortable notions he once formed of God. He sees God in Christ, reconciled, a Father, a Savior and a Friend, who has freely forgiven him all his sins and given him the spirit of adoption; he is now no longer a servant, much less a stranger, but a son; and because a son, an heir already interested in all the promises, admitted to the throne of grace, and assured expectant of eternal glory."
John Newton, Letters of John Newton 1781
Jun 12, 2011
Jun 11, 2011
Grace is not a Thing
Grace is not a “Thing”
It is legitimate to speak of “receiving grace,” and sometimes (although I am somewhat cautious about the possibility of misusing language) we speak of the preaching of the Word, prayer, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper as “means of grace.” That is fine, so long as we remember that there isn’t a thing, a substance, or a “quasi-substance” called “grace.” All there is is the person of the Lord Jesus — “Christ clothed in the gospel,” as Calvin loved to put it. Grace is the grace of Jesus. If I can highlight the thought here: there is no “thing” that Jesus takes from Himself and then, as it were, hands over to me. There is only Jesus Himself.
Grasping that thought can make a significant difference to a Christian’s life. So while some people might think this is just splitting hairs about different ways of saying the same thing, it can make a vital difference. It is not a thing that was crucified to give us a thing called grace. It was the person of the Lord Jesus that was crucified in order that He might give Himself to us through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
– Sinclair Ferguson
Jun 5, 2011
New Members
Welcome New Members
We are honored to have received into
membership today
Russell Forth
Julia Lagodzinski
Drew Merritt &
Barbara Stenske
Julia Lagodzinski
Drew Merritt &
Barbara Stenske
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Birthdays in June
Verda Hedden - 3
Pat Grant - 3
Madison McKee - 5
Louise Moore - 9
Lana Norman - 10
Maggie Salewske - 11
Erica Moore - 25
Lee Anne Blevins - 25
Stanley Solgot - 27
Stephanie Moore - 28
Anniversaries
Everett & Jacque Sollars - 4
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