SPCC Blog - June 2008

Babies who die and the goodness of God

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Tonight in Jim's sermon on Romans 5:12-21 we hit a passage of scripture that became precious to me a few years ago. While this is a fairly complicated passage of scripture, it is nonetheless worth digging into.

As John Piper once said, "If you rake, all you get are leaves. But if you dig, you just might find diamonds." This has been my experience with this passage. Jim did an excellent job of explaining the core concept: our main issue is not th [...]

Reflections on this week's Sermon--wrath.

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

This past weekend, Tim talked in the message about how a proper understanding of the wrath of God is necessary for an appropriate understanding of the love of God. Today I was reading an exerpt from a sermon by 16th century preacher Jonathan Edwards entitled "The Excellency of Christ" . Here is what he said...

"There meet in Jesus Christ, infinite justice and infinite grace.

"As Christ is a divine person, he is infinitely holy and ju [...]

Koutiala Hospital Update

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

You may have read in The Loop about the medical mission that Debi Foster from our church has taken up. Here are some links to some videos from the other side of the world where the supplies she is securing are going. This one is a little more home grown...but good.

The Folly of Hoarding

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Last night was the second night of Financial Peace University here at the church. We have about 90+ folks enrolled. This morning, one of my friends who is also taking the class sent me this link with the following picture in it...