Latest Sermon, May 6, 2012: Printable Sermon Outline
LISTEN> Lord’s Supper or Idol Feast: You Are What You Eat
About three months ago, I wrote to you, updating you on the status of the OPC’s Disaster Response effort in Japan. I wrote of the need for construction workers to help with two projects in the Sendai area: repair the walls of the Sendai Church transform a former dental office into a Ministry Relief Center in the more rural town of Yamamoto Cho, just a little south of Sendai Due to the fact that building material is twice the price in Japan as in the US, our intention was to ship the building materials from the US. Little did we know of the difficulties we would run up against in attempting to order, pack, and [read more]
OPC Short-term Missions Opportunities Around the World
This link will take you to information about the OPC’s Short-term Missions and Disaster Response Teams.
God’s Beauty Regimen Is Not Skin-deep
Have you ever thought about why you hate your driver’s license photo? Don’t you dismiss it as a one-inch-square lie told against your person? You don’t REALLY look like this, do you? Do you find yourself irrationally anxious for the passing of four years simply so you can try for a better photo?
Rationally, though, you know it really does identify you. It’s you, documented under a harsh governmental glare and held accountable to an unflinching official standard applied to each one of us. The unposed you simply feels like the exposed you.
Then why are you willing to show that naked self to the world? It allows you to drive!
It’s because you know that the small shame of that self-exposure will bring the greater reward of freedom. We remember being teenagers—driving represents freedom, zooming across the countryside on a beautiful day. [read on…]
Who are we?
New Life Orthodox Presbyterian Church is a community of people joined together by faith in Jesus Christ, the one sent by the Father to die for our sins. In Jesus, we have… a new Savior and Friend; a new Father in heaven; a new Spirit of love and boldness; a new family in other believers; a new task while here on earth; a new hope for eternity… a new life!
Living as God’s new creation is not a momentary, one-time act, but a life-changing passion. We at New Life are committed to serving Christ—being and making faithful disciples. It is an exhilarating, life-long calling.
We invite you to share it with us.
What is the Reformed faith?
The Reformed faith takes the Bible with the utmost seriousness. It is but another way of saying that “from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen” (Rom. 11:36). The Reformed faith seeks to maintain the entire teaching of the Bible, rightly understood… (continued at Orthodox Presbyterian Church website—our denomination)
A Brief and Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith by Benjamin B. Warfield
I believe that my one aim in life and death should be to glorify God and enjoy him forever; and that God teaches me how to glorify him in his holy Word, that is, the Bible, which he had given by the infallible inspiration of this Holy Spirit in order that I may certainly know what I am to believe concerning him and what duty he requires of me. [Read on…]
Who are those old guys at the top of the page?
Just six of the many people who have preceded us in making an impact for the Christian faith. Although they were fallible humans, their devotion to knowing Christ, promoting His gospel, and teaching it clearly is inspiring to us all in carrying out our own callings.
Learn about them here: Martin Luther (1483-1546); J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937); John Calvin (1520-67); Charles Spurgeon (1834-92); Jonathan Edwards (1703-58); and Augustine (354-430).
Westminster Larger Catechism Question 111: Which is the third commandment?
Answer: The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.[u]
u. Ex. 20:7. Cf. Deut. 5:11. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
[Read the complete Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms here.]
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