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November 13 2011 at 6:14 pm

Rancho 3M Baby Home: Complete!

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This coming Sunday we’ll be celebrating the completion of the baby home at Rancho 3M Orphanage and School in Gaudalupe, Mexico. Covenant Life has been partnering with Director Dean Adamek and the Rancho 3M Ministry since 2005. Completion of construction on the baby home this summer was the culmination of seven Covenant Life missions trips over a two-year period and 6000 man hours of work.

Working hand in hand with the appropriate governmental authorities, Rancho 3M plans to take in orphaned babies from the community while seeking adoptive homes for them.

The video (top) and slideshow (bottom) above provide a look at the construction process, the Covenant Life members involved, and the some of the children and staff of Rancho 3M. Thank you, Covenant Life Church for praying, believing, and giving to make the baby home possible.

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November 1 2011 at 3:57 pm

Members Meeting - October 30, 2011

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Audio 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.”

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November 1 2011 at 12:17 pm

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.

 

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October 24 2011 at 4:01 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.

 

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October 23 2011 at 12:25 am

‘A Magnificent Exchange’

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From “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.

 

 

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September 26 2011 at 3:17 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 and Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary.

J.D. lives in Raleigh with his wife Veronica and their four children.

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