CCC Gainesville | Blog
1. Laden with guilt and full of fears,
I fly to Thee, my Lord,
And not a glimpse of hope appears,
But in Thy written Word
The volumes of my Father’s grace
Does all my griefs assuage
Here I behold my Savior’s face
In every page.
2. This is the field where, hidden, lies
The pearl of price unknown
That merchant is divinely wise
Who makes the pearl his own
Here consecrated water flows
To quench my thirst of sin
Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
No danger dwells within.
3. This is the judge that ends the strife,
Where wit and reason fail
My guide to everlasting life
Through all this gloomy vale
Oh may Thy counsels, mighty God,
My roving feet command,
Nor I forsake the happy road
That leads to Thy right hand.
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Josh Dickenson will be joining you for lunch immediately after the morning services and classes. Come to the youth room at noon.
Please join our church family in prayer for Richard (Rick) Trammell, father of our own Jenny Trammell and pilot of the jet that crash west of Augusta, Georgia, on Wednesday. He is in trauma ICU at Georgia Regents Medical Center with significant injuries.
Please pray:
- For healing and strength for Rick Trammell
- For courage and rest for the Trammell family
- For all others involved in this tragedy
Q: What is the law of God stated in the Ten Commandments?
A: You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below—you shall not bow down to them or worship them. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. You shall not covet.
Why did God give us the law? Does he simply expect us to follow a set of rules? God is our creator and he intimately knows exactly what we need to flourish. When He gave us the law, He revealed to us his character. To break the commandments is to go against the very nature of God. And because we were made in God’s image, when we break the law, we go against our own nature. The first four commandments are vital to our relationship with God. The last six are vital to our relationship with each other. Because we are sinful in Adam, we cannot help but break the law of God. But because Christ redeems us, we are made perfect in him. As 2 Corinthians 5:17 states, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” Since the Spirit is within us, we are free from bondage to sin and given exactly what we need to trust our Father’s wisdom; ie to keep the commandments.
This is week 8 of 52 catechism readings from New City Catechism. Christ Community is reciting an entry from the catechism each Sunday in 2013.
Last weekend a small group from our High School Youth Ministry went to Daytona Beach for the first annual High School Midwinter Retreat with Southland Student Conference. We joined five other churches for a weekend of worship, teaching, games, and fellowship time with about 30 other high school students from around the state. We were challenged through Matt Ryman’s (Pastor at UPC, Orlando) teaching on God’s authority in our lives. It was an awesome weekend, and an encouragement to all who were able to attend. Here are some pictures from the weekend!
