July Twenty-Ninth
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Amos 4:13 For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The Lord God of hosts is His name. “Behold” is one of those words that hasn’t really spanned the millennia. …
God hates racism, and He hates all those who worship at the alter of the Neo-Naziism and White-Supremacy. There are two sorts of people that will agree with this statement, and two that would disagree. Those who might disagree would be those who either believe that God loves all people no matter who they are …
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” James 5:16 I’ve been thinking about this verse over the last few weeks and a question keeps drifting to the top of my thinking. When we …
ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS WEDNESDAY 3/22: The Anatomy of God Study Continues – 6:30pm-7:45pm SUNDAY 3/26: Bible Study Teacher’s Meeting – 12:00pm-12:45pm MONDAY 3/27: Ladies Ministry Meeting @ 6:30pm SUNDAY 4/1: Brown-Bag Fellowship Lunch – 12:00pm-2:00pm CHURCH DISTINCTIVESOVERIEGN GRACE John 15:16 “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should …
ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS PARTIAL MOVING DAY: Saturday – 3/18 from 10am to 12pm – Meet at 210 N. Peninsula Dr. FCC LEADERSHIP TRAINING: Sunday – 3/26 from 5pm to 7pm WOMEN’S MINISTRY EVENT: Monday – 3/27 @ 6:15pm BROWN-BAG LUNCH FELLOWSHIP: Sunday – 4/2 After Bible Study THIS WEEK’S CHURCH DISTINCTIVE Each week for the …
A Hermeneutic New covenant theology, or progressive covenentalism is a hermeneutic, a lens as it were by which the scriptures and the gospel is viewed and understood. The essence of the this paradigm is that Jesus is the new lawgiver. How the covenants relate to each other is neither a “dispensational” view, nor a truly “classic …
ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS CHAIR DELIVERY: The best estimate I’ve been given so far is either Wednesday or Thursday. I will be getting another notification as we get closer, but what little information I had, I wanted to pass long. SATURDAY 3/11: Khadijah Campbell’s Baby Shower from 10am to 12pm at 825 N. Ridgewood Ave. Ormond …
NEW WEDNESDAY NIGHT STUDY Starting March 1st, 2017, we’ll be embarking upon a journey through the “Anatomy of God” on Wednesday nights. This will be a study on the various attributes of our Great God. Come with us as we put on our surgeon’s gloves and grab our scalpels and cut into the details of …
EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS TONIGHT: Ladies Ministry Meeting at our current location at 6:15pm – Ladies, don’t miss it. SATURDAY: Men’s Ministry Support Day, helping Clint get some brush cleared out at his home on Seneca Blvd. His actual address is: 321 S. Seneca Blvd. SUNDAY: Lord’s Supper. Come prepared to celebrate the Lord’s table together. …
ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS FEBRUARY 25TH – Saturday – 2pm to 4pm – Men’s Ministry Meeting @ 210 N. Peninsula to walk the area sharing the gospel. FEBRUARY 27TH – Monday – 6:15pm – Women’s Ministry Meeting @ 210 N. Peninsula for a time of meditation on scriptures and fellowship. MARCH 4TH – Saturday – 9:30am …
909 UPDATE First, we’ve actually received a copy of the recorded or “warranted” deed this afternoon from the purchase on Friday. The significance is in the timing that I sent out before. We weren’t supposed to get the deed until at least Wednesday. Instead we got it today and Lloyd is already working on finalizing …
Demetrius is the leader of our monthly student ministries. Having played football for Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Demetrius had been offered an opportunity to play professional football but having come to Christ only a short time before that, Demetrius chose rather to abandon that career path for a life yet unknown to him. Since, he’s …
Jeffrey Hays is the leader of the Counseling Ministry here at Faith Covenant. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Dallas Baptist University. His Master of Science Lubbock Christian University and is a member of the Association of Biblical Counselors and the National Council on Family Relations. He’s also recognized as a Certified …
We believe that a local expression of the body of Christ should be small, intimate. You should know and be known well by all members. The church is referred to in the Scriptures as a body, a house, a family. Each of these expressions are indicative of a healthy number of members to make sure …
Churches are to beget churches. We believe that instead of growing to a massive congregation where most people can only know a few of the members of the church, instead churches ought to be planting new churches once they reach a healthy size. Church planting is the number one means of evangelism as seen in …
Our highest and greatest authority is the Scripture, the 66 books of the Christian Bible. Only the words contained within it are what bind the conscience of the New Covenant believer. Being bible based means that everything we do, we seek to make sure that it is in line with the Scriptures. There’s an old …
We believe that children should worship with us. Your child has a heart that is, unless reached with the gospel already, hard and in desperate need of Christ. Every week we gather together so that the message of the gospel might enlighten us and strengthen us for the coming week. Why would we then remove …
To say that we hold God’s sovereign grace up as a distinctive is to say that we believe salvation is completely and totally in the hands of God. It is a “monergistic” work not a “synergistic work”. Meaning that God saves sinners without their help in the matter at all. We believe that mankind is …
Being Christ-Centered means that at the center of everything we do and teach is the person and work of Jesus Christ. One thing that this means is that in every situation, we look to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the means of answering our deepest and greatest questions. In the gospel, which is the …
ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS – Saturday Feb. 11th, Marriage Workshop from 11:45am to 2pm – Saturday Feb. 11th, Valentine’s Day Potluck 6pm – Sunday Feb. 12th, Tech-Help Desk Event 4pm-6pm Press HERE for more details. – Sunday Feb. 19th, Leadership Training Class from 5pm-7pm CLEANING MINISTRY INFORMATION If you have signed up to clean the …
During the days of the Civil War historians tell us that approximately 150,000 people repented and believed in the name of Jesus Christ. A great and wonderful revival swept through the camps of both the North and the South and it was even reported that the Tennessee barracks had a 1,000 seat tent erected for …
PRAYER REQUEST Jeff and Lia’s youngest daughter is in the hospital today with bacterial pneumonia. Early this morning she woke up running a 104.4 temp and now the doctors want to watch her for the next 48 hours to see how she’s doing. Please be in prayer for the Hay’s family, especially little Heidi. ANNOUNCEMENTS …
Preface: I can’t imagine that this post will have any lasting impact on things transpiring in our world, but being compelled to say something, I use my tiny platform with great caution. What follows is a polemical treatise in hopes that harsh and rational words might wake someone up to the utter foolishness taking place. …
So I read an article just a few moments ago outlining several reasons why church’s should still hold services the 25th of December this year. Christmas falls on a Sunday as it does every blue moon. (Not the astronomical event, the colloquial expression for “not that often”.) The plea of the article struck me and …
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. Matthew 7:7 – July 26th, 2016 There is real danger in the spread of the gospel and our gracious and understanding God knows it. The verse that lies before us …
Salvation is a monergistic work of God. Meaning that the work of a person’s salvation is not a work of cooperation between man and God, but instead it is purely a word of God alone. The Father bestows grace upon a sinner and that sinner is then granted the faith to believe. It is then …
In Christian culture ambiguity is on the rise. It’s our desire to be as forth-right as possible. We believe that God grants Salvation alone by His Sovereign Grace alone through His Sovereign gift of Faith alone which He grants to all those who believe. We therefore reject the notion that God’s grace is enacted by …
We believe that the Bible is God’s special revelation that is without error in doctrine and detail in it’s original manuscripts. To use the terminology of the day we believe in the absolute inerrancy of the Scriptures as they existed in their original form. Those copies we have today, we recognize as being more than …
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. This present evil age! God has planned to deliver …
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath… Exodus 20:4 I made a comment this morning during my sermon on the concept of gun control and my firm belief that we ought to protect our homes and …
“…each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” (Romans 12:3 ESV) Paul boldly says that, varied individuals have been assigned, by our sovereign God, levels of faith in this verse. Paul makes a case for why each Christian must not elevate himself/herself due largely to this fact. Paul would also say in 1 Corinthians 4:7 “For who sees anything …
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. (1 Corinthians 13:11) The Bible teaches that there are two stages in life; childhood and adulthood. The notion of adolescence is a contemporary cultural creation. …
To what lengths would you follow Christ? That’s Christianity’s question. In order to become a Christian to begin with this question is asked of you. Will you follow Christ more than your own desire? While you follow Christ into self-denial and serve no longer yourself but Him alone? Truly the concepts of both repentance and …
“What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel…” (James 4:1-2) Let’s just say it! Sin sucks. Sin removes us from fellowship with God. …
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. –– 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 If you were to …
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. — 1 John 3:8 Sin is deadly. Sin is that which the Lord hates and sin is that which Christ suffered and died …
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. – Hebrews 11:1-2 Faith is the equivalent to a word that we use quite often—trust. You and I actively trust more than you probably take note of. We trust our food suppliers …
Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted above the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. – Psalm 46:10 There is a great danger in every society, the danger that even a lost man Socrates understood. The danger is in striving too much. Whether that be striving for the sake …
A Conversation in Sin: “When I’m in the middle of a battle over my sin, how do I overcome it?” The answer is that you can’t. The only way that anyone overcomes sin is through the work of Christ in them. “Alright, but how does that work?” Well, you have to trust Christ that He’ll carry …
When Christmas rolls around every year it seems like the same battles are fought over and over again. Happy Holidays vs Merry Christmas. And it seems like every year I see that bumper sticker on the back of peoples cars of a little nativity scene that says , “Put Christ Back into Christmas”. Expressing that …
Monergism; Synergism; These are words that have great implications for the Christian and yet many Christians wouldn’t have the slightest clue as to what they mean. The difference between these words is, life eternal with Christ, and an eternity spent in the pits of hell. So critical are these terms and their meanings that without …
Our flesh, also understood as our human nature, is constantly seeking to drag us down into the muck and more of sin. The pit of depravity is our nature’s natural habitat and feels most at home when we’re dwelling in darkness. Often times there is a familiarity with the shadows that, though we may despise …
Count Nicolas Ludwig Von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf was known for the great Moravian missionaries that were birthed from his town of Hurrnhut Germany. The Moravians were known the world around for their incredible devotion to God and to the Gospel. The Moravians and Count Zinzendorf, as he is most commonly known, were devoted to the …
Now I lay me down to sleep, for the lost my heart should weep. If he should die before I wake, I know the Lord, his soul, won’t take. And yet we slumber in our bed, unconcerned for man’s painful end. Knowing the gospel for ourselves, yet keeping faith upon our shelves. We enjoy His …
As Christians we too often overlook the call on our lives to pray earnestly. James 5:16 says; “Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.” That verse highlights the incredible power in prayer that …
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