CCC Gainesville | Blog
Happy Valentines Day, parents! RUF will be hosting a Parents’ Night Out at our church this Friday, February 17th, 5:30-8:30 pm. Come out and enjoy some free childcare!
The beauty and fullness of the healing and thriving of the new heavens and earth are why U2 is Right:
I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colours will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes, I’m still runningYou broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
And my shame
All my shame
You know I believe itBut I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
Who then can e’er divide us more
from Jesus and His love,
Or break the sacred chain that binds
the earth to heav’n above?
Let troubles rise, and terrors frown
and days of darkness fall;
Through Him all dangers we’ll defy
and more than conquer all.
Nor death no life, nor earth nor hell,
nor time’s destroying sway,
Can e’er efface us from His heart
or make His love decay.
| On Sunday my sermon entitled SANCTIFICATION was obviously just a smidge of all that i involved in this wondrous work of God’s free grace. Here’s some more, lifted from www.monergism.com (Always check monergism.com when you are researching.)
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Jerry Bridges |
A Treatise on Good Works (1520)  |
Martin Luther |
| Growing in Grace (.pdf) |
John Frame – Living Under God’s Grace: Spiritual Maturity (from The Doctrine of the Christian Life) |
| Sane Faith – Part 1 |
David Powlison |
| Sane Faith – Part 2 |
David Powlison |
| Sane Faith – Part 3 |
David Powlison |
| Romans 7:14-25: Pauline Tension in the Christian Life |
David S. Dockery (pdf) |
| Christ Died for the Sins of Christians, Too |
Rod Rosenbladt |
On February 22 we will hold two half-hour communion services. 6am and 6pm, in the sanctuary. Here is a reflection from last year’s service:
“The Ash Wednesday service allowed me to join Christians all over the globe to enter season of Lent by reflecting on the life of Christ as he reclaimed the tarnished creation. By taking the ashes, I was reminded of my own sense of tarnish and directed to the gritty presence of Jesus’ life and death in the the world as my only hope for restoration to the Shalom of God.”
–Todd Best
