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A Strange Sunday
Sunday is the best day of the week. Every Sunday, I bounce out of bed and cannot wait to come to Racine Bible Church to see all of you, praise our risen Savior, and open God’s Word together. But not yesterday. Yesterday was the strangest Sunday I can remember. When I came in to church for the live stream yesterday, I was unsure and uncomfortable. I didn’t really know what…
Five Prayers for RBC in 2019
As we have entered a new year of ministry let’s pray fervently … Personal holiness in the lives of each elder, pastor, ABF leader, deacon, and ministry worker For faithful daily times of prayer and Scripture meditation Grant us quick repentance from sin so that no sin becomes a pattern that festers God protect our leaders from moral failures…
Difference between those who make it & those who don’t
Here are the application points from the sermon on Hebrews 10:19-23 The first half describes those who hold fast to the end and the second describes those who don’t… spend a lot of time considering Jesus don’t spend any time considering Jesus are filled to overflowing…
Firm Foundations is Moving to Wednesday Nights!
We’re moving our Firm Foundation classes from Sunday night to a Wednesday night, trying to coincide with our AWANA, Middle School, High School programs. This session will begin October 1st and go through November 19th, from 6:30 – 7:45 pm. For those with younger children, the Crib and Toddler…
Photo-Scavenger Hunt Top 10
On Friday, November 15th the youth group had a photo-scavenger hunt event. This was always one of my favorite events when I was in the youth group, and so I was very excited for this day to come. It was an awesome time, so I wanted to share with you all my top ten from the night. These are not in any order. 10. “Best Youth Group” As the night progressed I…
suffering & the tremendous thing he means to make of us
Suffering is our servant because it makes us more like Christ. CS Lewis Of course we never wanted, and never asked, to be made into the sort of creatures He is going to make us into. But the question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. He…
New leaves push off the old
We have all seen a tree or a hedge thick with dry leaves throughout the winter, and neither frost nor wind completely removed the withered foliage, but the spring soon made it clear. The new life dislodges the old, pushing it away as unsuitable to it. So our old corruptions are best removed by the growth of new graces. It is as the new life buds and opens that the old…
Church Services in Kenya
Yesterday our team worshiped Jesus at AIC Tharuni Hepzibah. AIC is the affiliation, Tharuni is the village and Hepzibah is the name (I think it means blessed people, but am not too sure as my Swahili/kikuyu is not that great). We were there from 9:00 to 3:00 worshipping, praying, singing, dancing, teaching and preaching. It was unforgettable. From 9-10 we did gospel…
1 thing to do, read, listen to & pray about
One thing to do = We have good news. Share it with somebody this week. Ask them what they think about Jesus. Tell them about Him. Invite them to church.
One thing to read = Ross Douthat’s column from Sunday’s New York Times…