Posts from May 2016
Pastor’s Note: On the Holy Spirit
• Thanks for the many gracious offers in response to my badgering. Ruslan and his family are all set. I’m sure he would appreciate prayer for his message — they’re on a tight and busy schedule while they’re in the states.
Pastor’s Note: For Ruslan
• We need someone to host our guest-preacher this Sunday, Ruslan Moroz, visiting from Vladivostok, Russia. Explanation to follow, but first let me try to put such requests in context.
Pastor’s Note: Sanctification?
» This came to me second or third-hand, so I may not be getting it quite right. After the sermon Sunday there were questions about my describing Sanctification as “sinning less.” If the concern is that Sanctification is much more than that then, fair enough, “sinning less” doesn’t really cover it. So, herewith something a little more comprehensive.
Pastor’s Note: In the World and not of It?
• Join us for men’s ministry tomorrow morning at 8:00, breakfast then this discussion: has suburbia turned us into the third kind of seed in the parable of the sower, so life is now “the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things”? If you’re in your 20s and…