Posts for November 2008
Happy Thanksgiving (and preview of next week)
In chapel on Monday, we sang a great hymn often sung around Thanksgiving time:
Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.
O may this [...]
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Published on Nov 25, 2008 at 11:43 am.
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Michael Oh on campus
Dr. Michael Oh has been our keynote speaker for Global Gospel Advancement Week here at Covenant, and it has been a wonderful challenge to us to see the world and our God with new eyes.
Last night he gave us an overview of the world, in terms of reached and unreached peoples, where Christian populations are [...]
Published on Nov 21, 2008 at 2:02 pm.
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Using the Arts in Mission
We’re delighted to have with us in Chapel today Roger and Abi Lowther, who are part of a church planting team in Chiba, Japan. Roger trained at Juliard and Abi at Belhaven and University of Memphis. They are opening our Global Gospel Advancement week here on campus, and will give us an understanding of how [...]
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Published on Nov 17, 2008 at 9:16 am.
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A Tree Planted
Today in Chapel, Pastor Eddie Jacks from Resurrected Baptist Church preached from Psalm 1 about the blessed man. He defined being blessed as having the redemptive favor of God, having a deep-seated joy and contentment in Christ.
He looked at the blessed man from a negative perspective–what the man does not do, and from a positive [...]
Published on Nov 14, 2008 at 4:19 pm.
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Is forgiveness a small thing?
Today in chapel, we continued on our way through Mark, focusing on the story of the paralytic forgiven and healed in Mark 2. Chaplain Messner focused on two questions:
What is my biggest problem? or, what is the greatest threat to my welfare?
Who is able to deal with that problem?
As we looked at the paralytic and [...]
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Published on Nov 10, 2008 at 1:20 pm.
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Simon and the sinful woman
Gary Purdy spoke to us in chapel on Wednesday from Luke 7:36-50, the passage where the sinful woman comes to annount Jesus’ feet at Simon’s home. He challenged us in two ways. One, we can be like the sinful woman, so overwhelmed by our own sin and dirtiness that we hesitate to believe that Christ [...]
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Published on Nov 7, 2008 at 9:36 am.
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