by Justin Marple | Mar 20, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! We have been exploring the themes of Christian imagination and formation in the last couple “Pastor’s Green Pastures.” A good illustration of the theme of a Christian imagination is the effect of C.S. Lewis’ The...
by Justin Marple | Feb 27, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! I wrote to you last month about the way that worship on Sunday is not just about learning knowledge for our minds, it is also about ‘exercising’ our imaginations as we sing and speak and pass the peace. During...
by Justin Marple | Jan 30, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! As the apostle Paul tells us, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and...
by Justin Marple | Aug 28, 2013 | COMMUNITY, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from our Lord Jesus Christ! Everyone knows that society runs so much more smoothly if people take oaths seriously. We want to be able to count on people telling the truth in a court of law. We want the President of the United States to keep his oath of...
by Justin Marple | Jul 26, 2013 | COMMUNITY, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! Speaking of peace, have you thought about how even confrontation can be done in an encouraging way rather than as a war cry? Paul David Tripp in War of Words suggests a model of confrontation that is an acrostic spelling...
by Justin Marple | Jun 27, 2013 | COMMUNITY, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! Each and every day we should count our blessings that we live in the United States of America. To be sure we are all well aware that our nation is not headed in the right direction. And yet we also all know that it is a...
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