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10.17.19 | Missions & Outreach | by Judy Foster
Yves’ mother was pregnant with him when neighbors tried to kill them in Rwanda. He was born in a refugee camp in the Congo. More conflict forced his family to Kenya and finally to Togo. Though his father was a pastor, he hated people...
07.25.19 | Worship | by Render Caines
It was good to worship with you all this past Sunday. Following the service, I told Pastor Jones that I thought his sermon on Psalm 136 was one of the better sermons I’d ever heard from anyone. I also told him I was going to “rip it...
Congregational Meeting for Nominated Officer Candidates
07.19.19 | Discipleship | Shepherding
A congregational meeting is scheduled for Sunday, August 18, immediately following the worship service. Members of CPC will be asked to vote on three candidates for the office of deacon and one candidate for the office of elder. These candidates...
2019 PCA General Assembly Report
07.15.19 | PCA | by Jake Bennett
Dear Church family, This report comes to you as reviewed and received by the Session. Thank you for your encouraging words and prayers while Pastors Jones and Bennett, and elder Mark Wilson traveled to Dallas, June 24-28, to participate in...
07.11.19 | Discipleship | by John Jones
“The good news for the members of the graduating class who plan to enter the ordained ministry is that you don’t have to invent your own Gospel. All of the church hopes you will be imaginative and resourceful. It doesn’t...
06.28.19 | Missions & Outreach | by Dan Steere
The Centrality of Africa We Americans tend to take a Western view of the history of the Church. And, as Reformed believers, our focus on the Reformation can cause us to view all of Church History through that lens. However, we need to remember...
06.20.19 | Discipleship | by Eric Mullinax
Over the past weekend, I joined a large television audience to watch the USGA golf championship taking place in Carmel, California. There was much to admire in the telecast. The course, itself, is stunningly beautiful as it stretches along cliffs...
06.13.19 | Worship | by John Jones
Every aspect of a sermon is of great interest to me: proposition, structure, language, tone, illustration, delivery, even sermon length. Wesley confessed that he preached for three hours on at least one occasion. Jonathan Edwards preached more...
06.06.19 | Youth Ministry | by Jeremy Gaines
Music Camp 176 campers, along with 70 teachers and helpers, have converged upon CPC’s campus this week, working together to prepare for a musical in one week’s time. Days have been filled with singing, drama, recess, crafts, Bible...
It's Good for You That They Are Better than You.
05.23.19 | Discipleship | by John Jones
On Sunday, I shared I had just returned from a visit in Southern California and caught myself thinking of the poem of Suzanne Lummis, “Shangri-La,” in which she contends that Los Angelinos are always young, always suntanned, and...
