Covenant Life Church

January 6 2012 at 9:01 am

January: It’s All About the Bible

As Joshua shared this past Sunday, on January 8 we’re launching into a new sermon series called “Reading the Bible for All Its Worth.” The content had been planned for a Sunday Class taught by Don DeVries, but we’ve decided to make it a sermon series instead. Basically Don’s just going to be holding class in the main auditorium! (Don will teach the first three Sundays, and Ben Wikner the fourth and final one.) Please join us for these four important Sundays.

During the series, we plan to have a few people share how they interact with God’s Word—how they are meeting God, growing, and being strengthened through Bible reading, meditation, study and/or memorization. To that end, we want to collect some stories that will build up the body and then choose a few for people to share in church over the course of the series.

We invite you to participate by using this simple online form to share how you’re meeting God through his Word. On the form, we’ve provided some categories that may describe your situation. But no worries if you and your testimony don’t fit one of the categories. They are just to get you thinking.

We are not looking for amazing, impressive testimonies ... just simple, real-life stories of God’s Word working in real lives. We want to hear about the struggles as well as the high points and hear from as many people as possible.

Depending on the responses, we also hope to share some of the stories on the church website. This is a way to stir one another up as we reflect on God’s goodness in revealing himself through his Word. Psalm 119:162 says, "I rejoice at your word, like one who finds great spoil."

Share your story here.

December 25 2011 at 10:32 am

New Year’s Day

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On New Years’s Day, we’ll have one service at 10 a.m. with normal Discovery Land (Children’s Ministry) for infants through 5th grade but no middle school class. We are pleased to have Mark Lauterbach from Grace Church San Diego coming to preach.

Mark became became part of Sovereign Grace Ministries in 2003 after more than twenty years of pastoral experience and has served as senior pastor at Grace Church since 2005. He is originally from Pittsburgh and is a Steelers fan despite living in Charger territory. He and his wife Rondi have three adult children (all married), two grandchildren, and a dog. They live in Escondido.

Please note that the church building will be closed on January 2.

December 15 2011 at 3:17 pm

Terry Virgo Messages

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Joshua mentioned on Sunday that we would make available video of the Terry Virgo messages from this past weekend. Below are all three: two from Saturday evening and one from Sunday.

We are providing them here using a video sharing service called Vimeo. Soon, we’ll be offering video of recent sermons directly in the Resource Library. But for now, feel the freedom to bookmark the Covenant Life Vimeo channel that has sermons going back to December of 2010.

Special thanks to Dave Wilcox and the Production teams who work hard to make live and recorded sermon video (and audio) happen, and Communications volunteer Caleb Barker who has handled much of the processing/encoding of sermon video.

Visit the Resource Library for audio of Terry’s messages.

December 8 2011 at 4:58 pm

Schedule: Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day

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We hope everyone will join us for services over the holidays. Here are the details:

December 23 & 24 | Christmas Eve services | 6:30 p.m.
Please arrive early for seating.
Child care will be provided for ages 0 to 5.

December 25 | Christmas Day | One service – 10 to 11 a.m.
Attend with your kids, and enjoy this family-oriented service.
No child care will be provided. No middle school class.

January 1 | New Year’s Day | One service – 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Child care will be provided for ages infant through 5th grade.
No middle school class.

The church building will be closed on Mondays December 26 and January 2.

November 30 2011 at 12:00 pm

Terry Virgo Here December 10 and 11

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Terry Virgo will be with us here at Covenant Life for services on Sunday, December 11, and he will also teach on Saturday evening, December 10, at 6:30 p.m.

Terry’s theme in teaching will be the work of the Holy Spirit, drawing from his book, The Spirit Filled Church. We hope that you will join us.

Terry Virgo is based at Church of Christ the King, Brighton, UK, and is the founder of Newfrontiers, a worldwide family of churches together on a mission to establish the kingdom of God by restoring the church, making disciples, training leaders and planting churches. He and his team serve nearly 700 churches across 60 countries.

A well-known Bible teacher, Terry speaks at conferences internationally and hosts the annual Together on a Mission conference in the UK, which draws thousands of delegates from around the world.

Terry has written several books, including The Spirit Filled Church, God’s Lavish Grace, God Knows You’re Human, The Tide is Turning and No Well-Worn Paths, which is his biography.