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Next Step begins this Sunday @ 10am in the Office Complex
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Financial Peace begins Wednesday the 14th @ 6:30 in the main building.
See website for details on all classes.
This year we are putting a large emphasis on Operation Christmas Child and using this act of service to also strengthen our families. More detailed info is coming soon about shoebox packing and our OCC family event. This family event will be a fun afternoon of games, learning and shoebox packing. This event will have something for all ages, so we hope to see everyone out to share hope and the love of Jesus with needy children around the world.
Please mark your calendars for November 12, 3-5 pm.
“God the Creator appears as God the Redeemer, actively furthering a great plan for recreating a race and restoring a cosmos that sin has spoiled. The backbone of the Bible is the narrative histories, from Genesis to Acts, telling of a covenant people, an exodus from captivity, a promised land, a monarchy that over the centuries became a focus of unfaithfulness, a national captivity and return from exile, a prophesied Savior who died and rose and reconstituted the covenant people in faith-union with himself, and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to make the beginning of heaven’s life a matter of experience here on earth. The rest of the biblical material is linked to this backbone in terms of its content, just as your rib cage, the other bits and pieces of your skeleton, and your nervous and muscular systems are linked one way or another to your backbone. The Old Testament prophetic books and wisdom books and the New Testament epistles explain and apply the truths about God that are displayed in the history and tell us how to live in response to them. The Psalter models for us the practice of prayer and praise, complaint and celebration, and the book of Revelation gives visions of final victory when Christ comes again. Such is the organism of Bible teaching; such is the vision of the world’s story seen from God’s point of view on which the sixty-six books converge.”
–JI Packer
Another benefit of Eating This Book is that we’d know the promises our Father makes us.
“A fixed, constant attention to the promises, and a firm belief of them, would prevent solicitude and anxiety about the concerns of this life. It would keep the mind quiet and composed in every change, and support and keep up our sinking spirits under the several troubles of life… Christians deprive themselves of their most solid comforts by their unbelief and forgetfulness of God’s promises. For there is no extremity so great, but there are promises suitable to it, and abundantly sufficient for our relief in it.”
–Samuel Clark, quoted by JI Packer in Knowing God
