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Members Meeting - October 30, 2011
0 CommentsAudio of Sunday night’s members meeting is available along with full notes.
A gentle reminder: Comments for this blog are moderated. As Grant Layman shared in this members meeting: “Ephesians 4:29 says, ‘Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.’ This applies to our words, what we write in an e-mail and what we post online.”
November 1 2011 at 11:17 am
Matt Chandler Here November 13
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UPDATE (Nov. 13): Audio of Matt’s message, “From Rubbish to Rescue,” is now available.
We can’t wait to have Matt Chandler with us on Sunday, November 13 to preach from Philippians 3:1-16. Matt is an elder and primary teacher at The Village Church in the Dallas, Tx., area. He is also well known as a conference speaker.
On Thanksgiving day 2009 while at home with his family, Matt was rushed to the hospital after a violent seizure. Testing revealed a malignant brain tumor. His illness quickly caught the attention of the Dallas media, and it became clear that God had plans to use his story to minister gospel truth to thousands of suffering people. Roughly 300 days after that seizure, following multiple surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy, Matt was declared a healthy man. For more on the story, see Justin Taylor’s “One Year Later” interview with Matt, as well as Ligonier Ministry’s “Don’t Waste Your Cancer” interview.
In early 2009 before Matt’s bout with cancer, John Piper interviewed him at length. Here are parts one and two of the interview:
Here’s a brief excerpt of Matt’s message titled, “A Shepherd and His Unregenerate Sheep,” from the 2009 Desiring God Conference for Pastors:
More Background
Matt was born in the Seattle area to a military dad, and his family moved several times before settling in Houston. He came to know Christ at age 17. He received a bachelor’s degree in Bible from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene where he taught an inter-denominational Bible study for college students called “Grace.” From there he became a staff member at Beltway Park Church in Abilene, then relocated to Dallas to continue his itinerant speaking ministry. In 2002, he became pastor of First Baptist Church of Highland Village, known today as The Village Church. He married his wife, Lauren, in 1999. The couple has three children.
October 24 2011 at 3:01 pm
Jerry Bridges Will Preach This Sunday
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Jerry Bridges, beloved Bible teacher, author and dear friend to our church, will preach this coming Sunday from 2 Peter 1:16-21. A number of Jerry’s books are staples in our church bookstore and considered classics in the evangelical world. His books include:
• The Discipline of Grace
• The Gospel for Real Life
• The Pursuit of Holiness
• Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
• The Great Exchange: My Sin for His Righteousness
• The Bookends of the Christian Life
Jerry Bridges is 81 years old and has served faithfully on staff at The Navigators for over 50 years. He continues to serve there within the National Collegiate Office where he is involved primarily in staff development. He also serves as a speaker resource to The Navigators’ campus ministries.
Jerry has spoken here at Covenant Life numerous times. See the Resource Library for his messages.
October 22 2011 at 11:25 pm
‘A Magnificent Exchange’
0 CommentsFrom “God Justified the Ungodly,” a sermon by John Piper:
2 Corinthians 5:21 is one of the most breathtaking passages about this great gift of imputed righteousness. “For our sake he [God] made him [Christ] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Christ knew no sin. He was a perfect man. He never sinned. He lived perfectly for the glory of God all his life and in his death. He was righteous. We, on the other hand have all sinned. We have belittled the glory of God. We are unrighteous.
But God, who chose us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world, ordained that there would be a magnificent exchange: He would make Christ to be sin—not a sinner, but sin—our sin, our guilt, our punishment, our alienation from God, our unrighteousness. And he would take the righteousness of God, that Christ had so awesomely vindicated, and make us bear it and wear it and own it the way Christ did our sin.
The point here is not that Christ becomes morally a sinner and we become morally righteous. The point is that Christ bears an alien sin and suffers for it, and we bear an alien righteousness and live by it.
September 26 2011 at 2:17 pm
J.D. Greear Here October 9
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This Sunday, October 9, we are pleased to have guest teacher J.D. Greear with us here at Covenant Life.
J.D. is the lead pastor of Summit Church, in Raleigh, N.C. He did his doctoral work in Christian and Islamic theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., and has authored Breaking the Islam Code
J.D. lives in Raleigh with his wife Veronica and their four children.
September 5 2011 at 9:58 am
Prayer and Fasting
3 CommentsThis Wednesday we’ll be gathering in the Spurgeon Room to pray from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. I hope that many of you will be able to join us. But even if you can’t come that night, I want to invite you to join the pastors in fasting a meal or more on Wednesday (or whatever days work best for you this week). We continue to feel our desperate need for God’s power and guidance. The discipline of fasting is a way for us to express our dependence to the Lord and focus our hearts on God’s sufficiency.
The pastors will be fasting and devoting extra time to prayer this week. Please join us in this pursuit of God. Pray for the Lord to continue to show mercy to our church. Pray for unity. Pray for godly courage and resolve. Pray for reconciliation. Pray for the gospel to triumph in our church and in the lives of unbelievers in our community.
God’s Word tells us that if we humble ourselves and cry out to him for mercy he will hear us and heal us (2 Chronicles 7:14). Let’s continue to humble ourselves, repent of sin and seek the Lord who is full of grace and compassion. And let’s cling to this promise from 2 Corinthians 12:9, “‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that lthe power of Christ may rest upon me.”
—Joshua