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02.26.20 | Pastor's Notes | by John Jones
Last week’s passage (Romans 13.8-14) challenged us with the surprising relationship between love for others, and the knowledge of and obedience to God’s moral law for us in the Ten Commandments.
Poetry as a Lens for the World
02.25.20 | Pastor's Notes | by John Jones
Last Wednesday Dr. Robert Erle Barham delivered a masterful talk at Covenant College, Seeing the World Through Poetry. Dr. Barham is associate professor of English at Covenant College who studied at UMC-Chapel Hill and Queen’s...
02.20.20 | Discipleship | by John Jones
This week I’d like to share some worthwhile resources. We know that the Holy Spirit guides us in prayer (Rom. 8.26; Gal. 4.6; Jn. 14.16), and we know that Scripture warns against praying mindlessly (Mt. 6.7) and growing lax in our prayer...
01.30.20 | Discipleship | by Dee Hobbs
I always love hanging around a large gathering of men from our church. I’ve been around here for a while, so I have enjoyed a great number of opportunities to reconnect with guys I’ve worshiped with for years and also fellowship with...
01.23.20 | Discipleship | by Jake Bennett
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John...
01.16.20 | Pastor's Notes | by John Jones
Last Thursday evening we invited Al Dayhoff to speak to us on evangelism. Al is the founder of Evangelize Today and was invited by our presbytery to lead an all-day workshop on evangelism. I am happy to a part of a presbytery that spends time...
01.02.20 | Pastor's Notes | by John Jones
On Sunday, Jan. 12, we will rejoin our preaching series from Romans. Prior to the Advent season we made our way through the end of Romans 11. We begin again with Romans 12.1-2. In October of last year, Sinclair Ferguson and Ian Hamilton...
12.19.19 | Worship | by John Wykoff
We stand for the Hallelujah Chorus, so we’ve been told, following a tradition started by King George II. Upon hearing Handel’s majestic chorus, the king could not contain himself. He rose suddenly to his feet. The rest of the...
12.12.19 | Pastor's Notes | by John Jones
It may be premature, even anti-spiritual to some, to be looking ahead to the New Year when the season of Advent has just started. You may ask, “Why speed up time? Settle down. Relax.” In the words of Polish...
Gwilym Davies and Reading Scripture
12.11.19 | Pastor's Notes | by John Jones
One of my very favorite preachers, Dr. Liam Goligher of Tenth Presbyterian (PCA) in Philadelphia, recently shared an article written by Dr. Craig Carter of Tyndale University, Toronto. I mentioned this article in my Midweek class...
