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Pursue Peace With All Men
This Sunday we will cover only half of a verse as we speak of biblical principles for peacemaking from Hebrews 12:14. Biblical principles of peacemaking have a theological foundation. Because we have peace with God through Christ (Romans 5:1) and Christ has come to make peace among His people (Eph. 2:11ff), we can be at peace with others.
GBC Activities for 2007
Verse for 2007: Hebrews 12:1-2
| January 20 | Church work day |
| January 27 | IBCD counseling class |
| February 17 | IBCD counseling class |
| February 17 | Men’s Breakfast |
| March 2 | Ladies Night Out |
| March 17 | Church work day |
| March 17 | Men’s Breakfast GBC-SD |
| March 24 | Ladies’ Spring Tea |
| April 8 | Easter Brunch |
| April 14 | Men’s Breakfast |
| April 19-21 | Living in Hope Singles conference |
| April 29 | Sunday evening joint service |
| May 19 | Church work day |
| May 19 | Men’s Breakfast GBC-SD |
| June 1 | Westminster graduation |
| June 6 – June 29 | Barcelo family visits |
| June 9 | Missions night |
| June 10 | Sunday School Promotion |
| June 14-16 | Family Camp |
| July 4 | Fourth of July picnic |
| July 21 | Church work day |
| July 21 | Men’s Breakfast GBC-SD |
| July 23-27 | Vacation Bible School (at New Life Presbyterian) |
| July 29 | Sunday evening joint service |
| August 3 | Ladies Night Out |
| August 18 | Men’s Breakfast |
| September 7-9 | Women’s Retreat |
| September 15 | Church work day |
| September 30 | Sunday evening joint service |
| October 20 | Men’s Breakfast |
| October 31 | Reformation Day Party |
| November 21 | Thanksgiving Eve service |
| November 22 | Thanksgiving Dinner at GBC |
| December 8 | Men’s Breakfast |
| December 24 | Christmas Eve service |
| December 30 | Sunday evening joint service |
Divine Discipline
Today we will consider God’s Fatherly discipline of his children. The Christian’s troubles are never punitive because our Lord Jesus has already been punished in our place. Our hardships are, however, corrective and instructional. While our trials are unpleasant at the time, they produce valuable spiritual fruit.
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Consecrated to God
This week I am diverting from our studies in 2 Samuel and will be expounding Romans 12:1-2.
I plan, on certain Sundays over the next few months, to preach through Romans 12 with a special emphasis on our love and devotion for one another in the body of Christ.
Because our love for one another springs from our devotion to the Lord, Paul starts Romans 12 by exhorting us to be living sacrifices who are not to be conformed to the world.
Of course the foundation of our devotion to the Lord is the sovereign mercy which He has shown us in Christ — which was the subject of the first 11 chapters of Romans and forms the basis of Paul’s exhortation in Romans 12:1.
Portrait of a Godless Culture: An Appeal to Repent of Sinful Boasting
We will be doing a fairly rapid overview of the first nine chapters and then drawing some application from near the end of chapter nine, where Jeremiah writes, “Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.” (9:23-24).
Jeremiah’s theme leading to these texts is that of judgment: A judgment precipitated by the sinful lifestyle and arrogant living of the kingdom of Judah. The modern day parallels to our own day are truly amazing: Truly there is “nothing new under the sun.”