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Ash Wednesday Service @ Oikos

Published on 2012-02-15 19:01:10

Like to invite you all to our Ash Wednesday service this next week. For more details click on this link. Filed under: Ash Wednesday, Bellingham, Lent, Oikos Fellowship

The Characteristics of Spiritual Immaturity – Exhibitionism

Published on 2012-02-15 12:45:48

For those of you who may be keeping track, this is #3 in this series. The child is always at some time guilty of this spirit of exhibitionism. It means this – to much interest in self, too ready to talk about self, too ready to call attention to self. This is very elementary psychology, [...]

The Characteristics of Spiritual Immaturity – Lack of Understanding & Discernment

Published on 2012-02-14 19:02:18

You will remember how the Apostle Paul puts this in his great passage in the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians: ‘That ye be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine.’ You see what he means. There were people in the early church who were [...]

Sermon text for February 12th – Romans 10:14-15

Published on 2012-02-11 13:34:00

This Sunday’s service is going to have a special missions emphasis. Matt & Carolyn Monson will be giving a presentation on their upcoming long-term assignment with MAF and then Brittney Lundberg will come and share about the short-term project in Burundi that she will be a part of this summer with Sister Connection. Here’s the [...]

The Characteristics of Spiritual Immaturity – Instability

Published on 2012-02-11 13:16:45

You remember how Peter has told us that Paul’s epistles deal with these matters [MLJ is referring here to 2 Peter 3:16-17], ‘in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction; ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye [...]

The Characteristics of Spiritual Growth

Published on 2012-02-10 09:49:11

Personally I can be certain I am growing in grace if I have an increasing sense of my own sinfulness and my own unworthiness; if I see more and more the blackness of my own heart. If I am satisfied with myself I am not growing; if I am not satisfied, it is a sign [...]

Conference Audio – History of the Reformation

Published on 2012-02-04 19:24:02

Just finished listening to this audio, which included messages by Carl Trueman and Clint Humfrey. Don’t skip the panel discussion, there’s some very good discussions there including the importance of confessional statements in the context of church discipline: Luther and His Legacy – Trueman Menno Simons and the Mennonites – Trueman Can a Mennonite be [...]

On Setting Our Mind On Things Above

Published on 2012-02-04 13:11:58

Read this quote today during our family worship from Douglas Bond’s excellent devotional – Fathers & Sons: Hold Fast In a Broken World: Come to a man who hath the world at will and tell, “This is not your happiness; you have higher things to look after,” and how little will he regard you! But [...]

Sermon text for February 5th – 1 Peter 3:9-17

Published on 2012-02-03 23:50:21

9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. 10 For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; 11       let him turn [...]

A Christian Always Stands Apart from the World

Published on 2012-01-31 09:48:49

Now this is not a debatable matter; it is something that is absolutely inevitable if we really believe that a Christian is one who has become a partaker of the divine nature, if we really believe that a Christian is one who has been born again by the Spirit of God from above. If we [...]