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As we’ve been studying Ephesians, it’s been emphasized that the church is to exist as a body that joins together in Jesus Christ. We are not saved to be lone-wolf Christians, but a part of the body and the eye cannot say it does not need the hand. The living stones of which the church is built (that would be us) must be joined together for the church to grow. Yet we do not want a mere formal or institutional unity,…

What is it that parents want for their children? We want them to be healthy. We want them to not only do well in school, but to continue to have a love of learning. We want them to be hard-working and obedient. Those are good desires, yet that’s not any different from what unbelievers want for their children. As Christians, we should want something more. In fact, as we believe in the immortality of the soul, the reality of heaven…

Since we are resuming evening worship, this is a good opportunity to discuss why we have evening worship, especially when many churches do not. I want to highlight three reasons why we as a session want to include this practice in our life as a church body.  First, as the 4th commandment states, we believe that the Lord has given us six days in which to do all our work and pleasure, but the seventh belongs to the Lord. We don’t want…