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abortion, adoption, China, infanticide, population control, sanctity of life
Tomorrow is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. I have given over the pulpit to David Wooten, my friend, new member at OGC, and staff member at Embrace By Grace, a Christian adoption ministry in Casselberry. I look forward to what my brother will bring from the word in Genesis tomorrow on the subject of being [...]
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It’s time for the new quarter of classes at OGC. I’m teaching a class on Peacemaking, but it’s up against some strong contenders — Systematic Theology being one of them. We like our doctrinal studies and Biblical exposition at OGC, as we should. So why shouldn’t everyone just attend the other classes, and forget about [...]
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praise, thanksgiving
The sharing of many of our people in our thanksgiving service for their gratitude to God in easy and hard providences alike this year is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. As was copied in our bulletin this morning, here is the Puritan Valley of Vision prayer for praise and [...]
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church of the week, community, gospel, humility, interview, ministry, radio, WTLN
For one of their recent Church-of-the-Week programs, WTLN, 950 AM, Orlando, chose to feature, as they have done in the past, Orlando Grace. They aired a message from The Graces of Gospel-Shaped Community series called The Grace of Clothing with Humility from 1 Peter 4:19-5:7. You can listen to the audio of that message here. [...]
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faith, gospel, grace, Protestant Reformation, Reformation Day
Well, it’s certainly not because I don’t believe that the series matters. I continue to pray that God will use our fall emphasis on loving community motivated by the impetus of God’s love in the gospel (1 John 4:7-12) to shape us into a people fiercely devoted to one another. I hope you do too! [...]
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church, listening, pastoring, prayer, preaching
Nancy Leigh DeMoss has written a helpful blog post for those who regularly submit themselves to the means of grace that is the preached word. I particularly appreciated this pre-service exhortation at the top of her list: Pray for your pastor as he prepares for Sunday. Pray that his schedule would be free from unnecessary [...]
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communion, congregational meeting, Labor Day weekend, worship
Yes, it’s Labor Day weekend with the rest, relaxation, and refreshment it can bring, but . . . Sunday will come tomorrow and we will gather for worship and community as always. In some ways it is a more important Sunday than others. First, we have a congregational meeting during the 9:30 hour for members [...]
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brotherhood, community, fraternity, Ligonier ministires, Tabletalk
I was not prepared for the post-service rush last Sunday. At the close of my message I offered a give away of about ten copies of a recent issue of Tabletalk magazine on fraternity called The Bonds of Brotherhood. One of my brothers, a football coach in our community, almost took me literally about the [...]
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exposition, listening, membership, sermons
In his little book on healthy church membership, Thabiti Anyabwile promotes expositional listening as the first mark of a healthy church member. He defines expositional listening this way: listening for the meaning of a passage of Scripture and accepting that meaning as the main idea to be grasped for our personal and corporate lives as [...]
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Missions, sermons
Due to security reasons attached to the sensitive nature of the material and locations presented by our guest speaker today, there will be no sermon upload for August 14, 2011. Lord willing, we will post the next sermon in the series The Graces of Gospel-Shaped Community, as I resume the series next Sunday, August 21, [...]
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