Grateful & encouraged for the week that was PCAGA! But also grateful to be back with these beauties and to worship with the saints of CPC Temecula tomorrow!
To live in comfort & to die in beatitude, we need certainty...We must know how we can be freed from the accusations of our consciences & the burden of our sins...that we are reconciled with him & therefore that we can meet death & the judgement, without dread."
-Herman Bavinck
“Help me to see that although I am in the wilderness it is not all briars & barrenness. I have bread from heaven, streams from the rock, light by day, fire by night... I am discouraged by the way but though winding & trying it is safe & short”
Valley of Vision
@warne We try to stress the significance of the membership vows, & how those vows shape our life together, but always tweaking material as necessary!
Week 1: Christ (& his benefits)
Week 2: Presbyterian (confessional & connectional)
Week 3: Church (Mission/Vision/expectations etc)
If we have some virtuous capacity to will & choose in our sinful natures, then self-confidence & self-righteousness are inescapable concomitants. But if our wills are wholly in bondage to sin & Satan, then salvation must wholly be of God, & the glory completely His.
-Ian Hamilton