Strong marriages are a backbone of any good church. At North Church we are consumed with investing in marriages. The best sermon that a man will ever preach is the way he treats his wife. Much of what we do is centered around these ideas.
Along that line, we want to make you all aware of an event that is coming to St. Louis October 1-2 that will be hosted by Central Presbyterian Church and featuring Paul Tripp. Paul Tripp is a well known author and speaker you can visit his website about the conference here. You can get information on the conference here.
Check these sites out and make plans to go today. You can register on your own through the website.
When Obedience is Hard::David
This week our in series called "When Obedience is Hard" we will look at David. There are so many things that we could talk about in the life of David in regard to obedience.
The message on Sunday will focus on David's encounter with Bathsheeba, Uriah and Nathan. We will look into how and why it is so much harder to walk in obedience after a season or instance of disobedience.
David was a man after God's own heart, but he was also a man who fell into several spirals of bad decisions that were compounded by more bad decisions and ultimately left him as murder and adulterer with a dead infant son.
The story is in 2 Samuel 11:1-27 and 2 Samuel 12:1-24. Try to make time to read through the story and join us Sunday morning at 10:00 at 660 Charbonier in Florissant.
The message on Sunday will focus on David's encounter with Bathsheeba, Uriah and Nathan. We will look into how and why it is so much harder to walk in obedience after a season or instance of disobedience.
David was a man after God's own heart, but he was also a man who fell into several spirals of bad decisions that were compounded by more bad decisions and ultimately left him as murder and adulterer with a dead infant son.
The story is in 2 Samuel 11:1-27 and 2 Samuel 12:1-24. Try to make time to read through the story and join us Sunday morning at 10:00 at 660 Charbonier in Florissant.
God is faithful
The Lord has been taking me on a journey to better live out the gospel but more importantly, to speak the gospel to the lost. For the past several months everywhere I go and everything I do has been done with the thought of, how can I communicate the gospel today. This is not a sign of my spirituality as much as it is the Lord's faithfulness to teaching me urgency in my obedience in this matter.
We, in the past couple weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak the message of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection for the forgiveness of sin, to 3 different individuals specifically. Each of these opportunities has stemmed from the Lord simply saying to me, "If you are willing and surrendered, I will use you." And so that has been my approach each day, and it's been amazing to see the Lord's faithfulness, even in my unbelief and timidity in those moments. Ask me the stories, they are really cool!
Will we remember that God's faithfulness is the means to our obedience? I challenge you to simply say each morning, "Lord I want to be minister of reconciliation today. Make me aware of opportunities to speak your name today and give me your grace to walk in obedience. I surrender."
Gen 18:14 - "Is anything too hard for the Lord."
Journeying to better obedience with you,
Dave
We, in the past couple weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak the message of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection for the forgiveness of sin, to 3 different individuals specifically. Each of these opportunities has stemmed from the Lord simply saying to me, "If you are willing and surrendered, I will use you." And so that has been my approach each day, and it's been amazing to see the Lord's faithfulness, even in my unbelief and timidity in those moments. Ask me the stories, they are really cool!
Will we remember that God's faithfulness is the means to our obedience? I challenge you to simply say each morning, "Lord I want to be minister of reconciliation today. Make me aware of opportunities to speak your name today and give me your grace to walk in obedience. I surrender."
Gen 18:14 - "Is anything too hard for the Lord."
Journeying to better obedience with you,
Dave
