You are invited to a wonderful day of worship and teaching with your northland sisters in Christ on April 28th, 2012. The conference will be held at Gashland Presbyterian Church and will feature speaker Eva Self and worship music from Autumn in Repair.
You can find more information and register here. Please note that the early registration admission (only $20 and that includes lunch!) is due before February 14th. You can still register after that date, but you won’t be able to take advantage of the $20 special.
We will be blessed with teaching by three guest speakers during worship this month. Here are short biographies on two of them, and the third will be forthcoming. Please be in prayer for them as they prepare their messages.
Brian Hough (2/5, 2/12)
Brian is the youth pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Overland Park, Kansas. He is from Houston, Texas. He has been married to Laura for nearly 10 years and they have three children, Beckham 6, Sadie Piper 4, and Berkley 2. He enjoys reading, bicycling and playing and watching soccer.
Steven Carpenter (2/19)
Steven is currently the Executive Director of Word and Spirit Ministries, as well as a visiting lecturer and adjunct professor at Knox Theological Seminary. In addition to holding many teaching positions as well as associate and senior pastor positions since his ordination in 1966, Steven has been married to his wife for 42 years and is the father of three children.
We are excited to announce that Christ Covenant will be releasing a quarterly newsletter to keep all current and former attenders and members apprised of all of our goings-on!
Click the image below to download the .pdf version of Volume 1, Issue 1!
Please join us on 9/11 as we watch an inspiring documentary; the
story of Ladder 1 and the first responders to the World Trade Center.
Date: Sunday, September. 11th, 2011
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:45 PM
Where: South Valley Middle School
Food: Light Dinner
*Child care provided for children under 11
*The documentary contains profanity (PG-13)
I recently enjoyed this paragraph from C.S. Lewis’s Miracles.
“It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. ‘Look out!’ we cry, ‘it’s alive’. And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back—I would have done so myself if I could—and proceed no further with Christianity. An ‘impersonal God’—well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads—better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap—best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband—that is quite another matter. There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion (man’s search for God!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?”
Though this section is intended for searchers and seekers rather than saints, I see applicability. Every Christian, though he boasts in the living God, will now and then behave as if God is dead. Boastful theology, answers lauded as correct, right, and even orthodox are at most eulogy and at least soul-less dirge for those who suppress the Spirit within. Right answers are good; better still are answers from the heart, without words, unspoken, tacitly known and obeyed because they are the stuff of a new creature.
