Airdrie, Alberta Canda
20 April 2014 — 6 AM Sunrise Service (at Young’s Farm ~ call for information)
20 April 2014 — 10 AM Worship (at the Good Shepherd School)
| Scripture: | 1 Peter 1:3 |
| Sermon: | “A Living Hope” |
| Hymns: | “The Day of Resurrection” |
| “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” | |
| “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” | |
| “Jesus Lives and So Shall I” | |
| Doxology: | “Thine Be the Glory” |
20 April 2014 — No Sunday School
20 April 2014 — No 3 PM Worship
Rowland Ward writes:
Jesus’ resurrection was not a resumption of the same kind of life he had before, as was the case with Lazarus (see John 11). Lazarus was raised to resume his old life and to die again. Christ was raised and death no longer has any hold on him. The life of the age to come has been realized in him. Let us explore further what Jesus’ resurrection tells us about his person and work for us.
In this special message, Dr. Sproul narrates one of the children’s books he’s written, entitled “The Priest with Dirty Clothes”—a story of God’s love and forgiveness. It was written to help children understand one of the most difficult concepts of Christianity—how we are made acceptable to God through Christ’s righteousness.
This is a great story for adults as well as children. It’s about 20 minutes long.
Al Mohler writes:
One of the most amazing statements by the Apostle Paul is his indictment of the Galatian Christians for abandoning the gospel. “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel,” Paul declared. As he stated so emphatically, the Galatians had failed in the crucial test of discerning the authentic gospel from its counterfeits.
His words could not be more clear: “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you have received, he is to be accursed!” [Gal. 1:6-7]
This warning from the Apostle Paul, expressed in the language of the Apostle’s shock and grief, is addressed not only to the church in Galatia, but to every congregation in every age. In our own day — and in our own churches — we desperately need to hear and to heed this warning. In our own time, we face false gospels no less subversive and seductive than those encountered and embraced by the Galatians.
In our own context, one of the most seductive false gospels is moralism. This false gospel can take many forms and can emerge from any number of political and cultural impulses. Nevertheless, the basic structure of moralism comes down to this — the belief that the gospel can be reduced to improvements in behaviour.
R.C. Sproul writes:
The late theologian Cornelius Van Til once made the observation that Calvinism is not to be identified with the so-called five points of Calvinism. Rather, Van Til concluded that the five points function as a pathway, or a bridge, to the entire structure of Reformed theology. Likewise, Charles Spurgeon argued that Calvinism is merely a nickname for biblical doctrine. These titans of the past understood that the essence of Reformed theology cannot be reduced to five particular points that arose as points of controversy centuries ago in Holland with the Remonstrants, who objected to five specific points of the system of doctrine found in historic Calvinism. Those five points have become associated with the acrostic TULIP: Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, and Perseverance of the saints.
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