What do you do when the world falls apart?
When the planes struck, I was in my office overlooking Columbia University on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, eight miles north of Ground Zero. I listened helplessly to news reports and to the sound of sirens as rescue workers raced beneath my window on the way to the scene. It wasn’t long before a deadly odor began to fill the air.
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Getting To The Heart of Parenting, by Paul Tripp

Study of the Book of Nehemiah

For a Thousand Tongues to Sing: A Study of Christian Hymnody

Next Step: An Orientation to Christ Community

Beginning: September 11 at 10:00AM

Sunday at 8:30 and 11:15 we will think together about the Word of God, and how we receive and respond to it in our lives.

Here are two quotes from Eugene Peterson followed by one from Tim Keller:
“We enter the text to meet God as he reveals himself, not to look for truth or history or morals that we can use for ourselves.”

“The authority of the Bible is immediately derived from the authorial presence of God. In other words, this is not an impersonal authority, an assemblage of facts or truths. This is not the bookish authority that we associate with legislation codified in a law library, or the factual authority of a textbook on mathematics. This is revelation, personally revealed – letting us in on something, telling us person to person what it means to live our lives as men and women created in the image of God.”

“The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.”

Sunday September 11 a whole slew of interesting classes kicks off at CCC.  I (Rob Pendley) will be leading the Next Step class.  Here we give a good overview of the gospel and our values as a church family.  Along the way I answer questions and we all get to know each other.  Meeting 10am in the Office Complex.  All the other classes are available here on our website.

On the morning Saturday September 24th we’re planning to flood Gainesville with hearts and hands to serve.  You’ll have opportunity/pressure to sign up for one of the 4 places we’re serving on that morning.  Gators play Kentucky later that day.  Games are more fun to watch when you’ve been selfless earlier in the day.  Get in there!