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June 6 2011 at 6:08 pm

Pete Greasley Will Preach Here on June 12

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Pete Greasley, senior pastor of Christchurch in Newport, Wales, will preach here at Covenant Life on Sunday, June 12. Pete helped to found Christchurch and has served there for 16 years. Pete and his wife Jenny have been married for 28 years and have three grown children.

In his blog on the Sovereign Grace Ministries website, C.J. Mahaney describes Pete as a “jolly Englishman, erstwhile rock musician, and would-be sailor who serves Sovereign Grace Ministries by traveling to Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia, preaching the gospel and serving churches for the glory of God.” For more on Pete and his ministry, see CJ’s three part series—“Meet Pete Greasley.”

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March 18 2011 at 5:40 pm

Ray Ortlund Here March 27

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Ray Ortlund will be with us on Sunday, March 27, preaching a sermon entitled “God Gives New Beginnings” from Psalm 85. Ray currently serves as lead pastor at Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tenn., part of the Acts 29 Network. He is a Council member and blogger with The Gospel Coalition.

Ray holds a Ph.D. from The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and taught from 1989-1998 as Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill.  He has pastored churches in California, Oregon and Georgia. In addition to a number of essays and articles, he has published five books. Ray also participated on the teams behind The New Living Translation and the English Standard Version of the Bible, contributing the introduction and study notes to the book of Isaiah in The ESV Study Bible.

Ray has been married to Jan Giles Ortlund for thirty-eight happy years, and they have four children. He says, “I have the most wonderful wife, I love my kids and grandkids, and I love Immanuel Church. My dream is that God would use us for true revival in our city.”

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March 8 2011 at 8:04 pm

Pastors on Retreat

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The pastoral team left this morning for a retreat in southern Maryland. Let’s remember to pray for them faithfully over the course of this week.

A helpful quote:

Let the thought sink deep into the heart of every church, that their minister will be such a minister as their prayers make him. … How perilous is the condition of that minister ... whose heart is not encouraged, whose hands are not strengthened, and who is not upheld by the prayers of his people!
—Gardiner Spring (1785-1873)

“Brothers, pray for us.” —1 Thessalonians 5:25

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March 7 2011 at 11:40 am

C.J. Mahaney: “When Someone Doubts”

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It will be our joy to have C.J. Mahaney with us on Sunday, March 13, preaching from Jude, verses 22 and 23: “And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.”

C.J. Mahaney leads Sovereign Grace Ministries in its mission to establish and support local churches. After 27 years of pastoring Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, C.J. handed the senior pastor role to Joshua Harris on September 18, 2004, allowing C.J. to devote his full attention to Sovereign Grace. He serves on the Council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and on the board of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

C.J.‘s books include Humility: True Greatness; Living the Cross-Centered Life; and Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God. He is the editor of Worldliness and Why Small Groups?, and has coauthored other books in Sovereign Grace Ministries’ Pursuit of Godliness series.

C.J. and his wife, Carolyn, have three married daughters and one son. They make their home in Gaithersburg, Md.

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November 19 2010 at 7:27 pm

Tullian Tchividjian, Our Guest on November 28

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Pastor Tullian Tchividjian will preach here at Covenant Life in both services on Sunday, November 28. His Scripture text will be Colossians 1:9-14, and his title, “Jesus + Nothing = Everything.”

Tullian’s full name is (get ready…) William Graham Tullian Tchividjian (pronounced cha-ví-jin). He is a Florida native, the pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, a visiting professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, and a grandson of Billy and Ruth Graham. Yep, Billy Graham’s grandson is coming to preach at Covenant Life!

A graduate of Columbia International University (philosophy) and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Tullian is the author of Do I Know God? Finding Certainty in Life’s Most Important Relationship (Multnomah), Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different (Multnomah) and Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels (Crossway). Tullian is also a contributing editor to “Leadership Journal.” He speaks at conferences throughout the U.S., and his sermons are broadcast daily on the radio program “Godward Living.”

When he is not reading, studying, preaching or writing, he enjoys being with people and relaxing with his wife Kim and their three kids, Gabe, Nate and Genna. Tullian loves the beach, exercise, and when he has time, surfing.
Tullian’s favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, J.I. Packer, Francis Schaeffer, and Jonathan Edwards.

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November 16 2010 at 8:43 pm

Gospel Coalition Conference

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A number of our pastors will be attending the 2011 National Conference of the Gospel Coalition taking place in Chicago, April 12-14, 2011. Covenant Life members: consider making plans and attending the conference! Early bird registration rates for individuals and couples as well as student rates are available. If you want to possibly stay at the same hotel as the pastors, feel the freedom to call the church office for more info.

The Gospel Coalition is a fellowship of evangelical churches—and a collection of Christian leaders representing those churches—who desire to serve the local church by promoting gospel-centered ministry to the next generation. The Gospel Coalition is deeply committed to renewing people’s faith in the gospel of Christ and to reforming ministry practices to conform fully to the Scriptures.

To learn more about the Gospel Coalition and the 2011 National Conference, visit their About Us and Conference pages.

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