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If you have always wanted one of our Christ Community T-shirts, now is your chance! We are selling shirts to raise funds for our Operation Christmas Child Project and we are now taking orders. Adult shirts will be $12 and children’s shirts will be $10. Visit the church website to place your order or stop by the Children’s Welcome Station. Orders are due by October 23.
And don’t forget our Operation Christmas Child Experience!
November 12, 3-5 pm. Join us as we have a special event to serve children in need in other countries. Children’s Ministry will be partnered with Missions and other ministries to make it an all church event. There will be fun and games, shoe box packing and a chili dinner. Please mark your calendars for this evening of fun, fellowship and serving.
November 12, 3-5 pm to serve children in need in other countries. Children’s Ministry will be partnered with Missions and other ministries to make it an all church event. There will be fun and games, shoe box packing and a chili dinner. Please mark your calendars for this evening of fun, fellowship and serving.
There are, in fact, two quite distinct ways in which the New
Testament speaks of crucifixion in relation to holiness. The
first is our death to sin through identification with Christ;
the second is our death to self through imitation of Christ. On
the one hand, we have been crucified with Christ. But on the
other we have crucified (decisively repudiated) our sinful
nature with all its desires, so that every day we renew this
attitude by taking up our cross and following Christ to
crucifixion (Lk. 9:23). The first is a legal death, a death to
the penalty of sin; the second is a moral death, a death to the
power of sin. The first belongs to the past, and is unique and
unrepeatable; the second belongs to the present, and is
repeatable, even continuous. I died to sin (in Christ) once; I
die to self (like Christ) daily.
–John Stott
I stumbled upon a treasure-trove of quotes while searching for a CS Lewis quote about the evil of advertising.
“There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear of keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.”
-Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.’
-C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) Letters to Arthur Greeves, 13 January 1917
Whither thou goest, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
-Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), On the Road, 1957
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seeks for goods before they seek God.
-Bernard of Clairvaux, (1091-1153) On the Love of God
Give the public the ‘image’ of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.
Madeline L’Engle (1918-2007), A Circle of Quiet, 1972
When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, “No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.”
-Bill Gates quoted in Parade Magazine, 14 Jul 02
