Parenting Class
Getting To The Heart of Parenting (By Paul Tripp)

Parenting is more than using your power to get children to behave in certain ways. Parenting is all about the exposure and change of the child’s heart. When the heart of a child changes the behavioral change that is needed will last. Learn how to be an instrument of heart changing grace in the little moments of life that God will give you with your children, whether they are toddlers or teens.

(10am Sundays, starting September 11)

1.) Tuesday September 6 @ 9:00am
2.) Tuesday September 6 @ 7:00 PM
3.) Fellowship opportunity on the 15th.

Crossroads/college class: Study of the book of Nehemiah

The story of Nehemiah centers around God returning His people to from exile to rebuild the temple and the wall around Jerusalem. As we work through this OT book we will be focusing on the major theme of God working sovereignly through responsible human agents to accomplish His redemptive purposes. This book impacts us as we gain understanding of how we are to be used by God to to be His redemptive agents in our worlds now.

We will be reading through the OT book and digging into scripture together through lecture and discussion. | starts Sept.11 at 10am

The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly – but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth. No piety in the worker will compensate for work that is not true to itself; for any work that is untrue to its own technique is a living lie.

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[The Church] has lost all sense of the fact that the living and eternal truth is expressed in work only so far as that work is true in itself, to itself, to the standards of its own technique. She has forgotten that the secular vocation is sacred. Forgotten that a building must be good architecture before it can be a good church; that a painting must be well painted before it can be a good sacred picture; that work must be good work before it can call itself God’s work.

–Dorothy Sayers