Sunday we meet and celebrate HERE

Sunday at the Site

This Sunday should be a wonderful time of celebrating God's faithfulness.  It is our Journey of Faith Celebration 

Sanctuary doors

Bldg

Lucas Simon Hamersma is here!!

From Rob and Sarah:

Please join us in welcoming the arrival of Lucas Simon Hamersma!

He's doing great and we'll be bringing him home on Wednesday evening if all goes well---

Sunday March 14 We Meet on our Property, make a note

Ben and Charlie still at it

work day

Crown Him the Lord of life, who triumphed o’er the grave,

And rose victorious in the strife for those He came to save.

His glories now we sing, who died, and rose on high,

Who died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die.

Wordle of Psalm 125

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saturday 8am, we like to move it move it

sweet landscaping

All Healing is Divine Healing

That the life of Jesus should be constantly revealed in our
bodies; that God has put into the human body marvellous
therapeutic processes which fight disease and restore
health; that all healing is divine healing; that God can
and sometimes does heal miraculously (without means,
instantaneously and permanently) -- these things we should
joyfully and confidently affirm.  But to expect the sick to
be healed and the dead to be raised as regularly as we
expect sinners to be forgiven, is to stress the 'already'
at the expense of the 'not yet', for it is to anticipate
the resurrection.  Not till then will our bodies be
entirely rid of disease and death.

--John Stott

From "The Cross of Christ"

Praying in trials

In the thick of difficult experiences, whatever form the 'sceptre of wickedness' may take--
-an oppressive, persecuting regime
-a difficult, unpredictable superior
- an uncongenial circumstance

--We must look beyond it in our prayers, and pray for the coming divine settlement (TWWAW!) of all things, when at last the Lord's Israel (verse 5b), you and me and all who trust in Jesus as Saviour, will enter into perfect peace: the full reality of peace with God, the peace of perfect fellowship among perfected saints, and the peace of our characters at last fully fashioned in the likeness of Christ.

--Alec Motyer, on Psalm 125

(I use brit spelling as nod to author and slight nod to Jason MacGregor and Sid Crosby--O canada)

You're in good hands

"We live in the hand that appoints our experiences and our destiny, and which controls our daily circumstances. This is not a problem; it is a fact; it is also the softest pillow on which to lay our heads. Our God is really and truly God."

--Alec Motyer, on Psalm 125

Two-Part Delusion

We all suffer from a 2-part delusion. We imagine we are

1. Autonomous,
2. Self-sufficient.

If either one were true, we'd be God.

--Paul Tripp


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Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down, THE Man in Black

Longing for the Patria

From a letter written by C. S. Lewis (5 November 1954) and published here:

“About death, I go through different moods, but the times when I can desire it are never, I think, those when this world seems harshest. On the contrary, it is just when there seems to be most of Heaven already here that I come nearest to longing for the patria [the heavenly homeland]. It is the bright frontispiece which whets one to read the story itself. All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasizes our pilgrim status: 

always reminds, beckons, awakes desire. Our best havings are wantings.”

Responsibility and Dependence

Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours. This principle seems to be one of the most difficult for us to understand and apply. One day we sense our personal responsibility and seek to live a godly life by the strength of our own willpower. The next day, realizing the futility of trusting in ourselves, we turn it all over to Christ and abdicate our responsibility which is set forth in the Scriptures. We need to learn that the Bible teaches both total responsibility and total dependence in all aspects of the Christian life

--Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness

Saturday is huge. Need help!

Saturday we are--as a church family--landscaping the North side of the property.

Please let us know:
A.) If you can help
B.) How long you can help

379-4949 or email
fmatthews
At
christcommunitychurch DOT
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