look at the changes

Lizette Crossan has done some great updating to the website.... use it this week
Christ Community Church - Gainesville Florida - Welcome

upcoming

Tuesday, women's study 10:45am

Sunday, classes at 9am; worship 10am
4pm til 6pm BASH at Pendley's home (3838 SW 78th Street) drop by for 15 minutes or stay a couple o' hours

Friday August 18th, Fall Vision Night... 7pm... location TBA soon

Sunday when Christ Community gathers at Oak Hall

9am classes
10am worship (children's church--for age 5 thru grade 2-- during the message


Come ye sinners, weak & wounded by sin...
Come, and receive...

Help Matthews' Unload Friday 5:45ish

610 SW 127th Street, just off Parker Road

From church house:
--Go north towards Newberry Road
--turn LEFT onto W.University Ave
--when that road dead ends, turn left, they are several houses down on the RIGHT

Or, from Newberry Road, TURN LEFT onto SW 127th Street, travel south until their home... 610 SW 127th Street

Lost? contact 359-6597
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A Great Gift

“Perhaps the great gift any father can bestow upon his children, apart from the covenant blessings of parish life and a comprehension of the doctrines of grace, is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives a knowledge of the world, and it offers experience of a wide kind. Indeed, it is nothing less than a moral illumination.” --Thomas Chalmers

The Tailenders July 25 PBS

On July 25 PBS will air a documentary entitled The Tailenders, featuring the missionary organization Global Recordings:
P.O.V. - The Tailenders . Film Synopsis | PBS

great lectures online can be helpful

Covenant Seminary - Ministry Resource Files: "Perfectionism
Part 5 in Schaeffer Lectures - Restoring a Glorious Ruin
Richard Winter
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Perfectionism Discussion
Part 6 in Schaeffer Lectures - Restoring a Glorious Ruin
Richard Winter
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Fall 2002 Francis A. Schaeffer Lectures
The Shaping of Homosexuality: Genetic, Psychological, and Sociological Factors
Part 5 in Schaeffer Lectures - Human Sexuality and Homosexuality
Richard Winter
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Is Change Possible?: The Evidence Considered
Part 7 in Schaeffer Lectures - Human Sexuality and Homosexuality
Richard Winter
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Friday Nights @ the Institute
Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment
Rediscovering Passion and Wonder
Richard Winter
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Spring 2004 Francis A. Schaeffer Lectures
The Daily Assault on Human Dignity: From Conception to Old Age
Part 4 in Schaeffer Lectures--Human Dignity: Who Gets a Seat at the Table?
Richard Winter
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Covenant Theological Seminary
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Phone: 314.434.4044 Fax: 314.434.4819

The Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)

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I am not my own

Westminster Theological Seminary: "Q. What is your only comfort in life and death?
A. That I am not my own,[1] but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death,[2] to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ.[3] He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood, and has set me free from all the power of the devil.[5] He also preserves me in such a way[6] that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head;[7] indeed, all things must work together for my salvation.[8] Therefore, by His Holy Spirit He also assures me of eternal life[9] and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live for Him.[10]

[1] I Cor. 6:19, 20 [2] Rom. 14:7-9. [3] I Cor. 3:23; Tit. 2:14. [4] I Pet. 1:18, 19; I John 1:7; 2:2. [5] John 8:34-36; Heb. 2:14, 15; I John 3:8. [6] John 6:39, 40; 10:27-30; II Thess. 3:3; I Pet. 1:5. [7] Matt. 10:29-31; Luke 21:16-18. [8] Rom. 8:28. [9] Rom. 8:15, 16; II Cor. 1:21, 22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13, 14. [10] Rom. 8:14."

First, experience God's love in Christ

"You cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. Even if we could do so, that would lead only to despair. The first world–centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection—for God and from God. The love of the world and the love of the Father cannot dwell together in the same heart. But the love of the world can be driven out only by the love of the Father. " --sinclair ferguson

How would this change the way you come to the Lord's Supper? How you approach God in prayer? What you do when you blow it? Read whole article at this link:
Expelling Worldliness with a New Affection article:

Following Christ Maximizes Sensory Pleasure?

Question: Christianity helps us to maximize sensory pleasure. How?

Answer by author: In "The Pleasantness of Religion" J. Edwards explains that seeking pleasure without any checks or balances can actually boomerang to pain. Who hasn't been to a smorgasbord, only to waddle out muttering, "Why did I eat so much?" Edwards shows us the proper pursuit of pleasure. The sting of conscience can eclipse pleasure, but Christians may pursue pleasure "peaceably" and not in "slavish fear." We can enjoy sensory pleasure because we realize that God has made this world for us to enjoy and to savor, or as Edwards would put it, to relish. Edwards often uses the illustration of honey. We should enjoy its sweetness just as we should enjoy all of God's gifts.

This interview is from WORLD magazine... with an author who wrote book about J.Edwards teaching on the Bible's teaching about living here on earth with a vision of the physicality and reality of the new heavens and new earth of eternity.

"What is the Christian method? I end with a text. It is not, 'Set about imitating Christ, adopt His moral ethical teaching, and try to put it into practice'. It is not, 'Get away and become a monk or a hermit'. But just where you are in the midst of the world, with evil and sin rampant round and about you, and everybody and everything doing all they can to discourage you and to drag you down, just as and where you are, 'Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil.' It is not retreat, it is not escape, it is not attempting something that is impossible. No, it is this supernatural, miraculous Gospel that enables us to be 'more than conquerors' over everything that is set against us."
--D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Jesus, Wine, and Life--Women's Study Tuesday

Jesus, The Lord of the Wine is the title of a talk on John 2 that the women will be hearing and discussing.

10:45 at the home of Tara Gallagher, in Kenwood Subdivision off Tower Road (aka SW 75th Street)

Questions: 379-4949

Sunday with Christ Community

Sunday's Scheduled Events
9am classes for all ages
10am worship service, preaching from Acts 25
(no children's church)

4:30 Youth Leadership Team Meeting
7pm Youth Meeting at the Pendley's home

facility stuff

Traditionally, churches have seen their buildings as ‘our sacred space.’ But we want the building to be shared community space, a place of hospitality. We want to say to our neighbors, “This space does not only belong to us—what uses will benefit the whole area of town?” --tim keller

Many today call not for churches without buildings nor for traditional church buildings, but for church buildings that serve as ‘proximity space’ in which believers can meet, live with, and know their neighbors.
See Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church (Hendrickson, 2003.)

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Wonderful

At the wonderful, tragic, mysterious tree
On that beautiful, scandalous night you and me
Were atoned by His blood and forever washed white
On that beautiful, scandalous night

Tanzania Orphanage Update

The place where the team is heading to construct an orphanage in November has put together a newsletter. Check it out on this page

Friday August 18th 7:00

Fall Vision Night
Plan on it
(Childcare Provided)

Want the elders to pray for you?

Tonight (Tuesday) the elders of Christ Community meet for the purpose of shepherding the flock of Christ Community. A portion of this is done by praying for you. If you would like to submit a last minute request for prayer, please email me by 6:30pm at
robp AT christcommunitychurch DOT com

Women's Bible Study Starts TODAY

10:45am.... looking at John chapter 9

meeting off Tower Road in Kenwood Subdivision details

Sunday July 9

9am classes for all ages
10am worship

I'll be preaching on Acts 24

Frank Matthews will be interviewed/received by the presbytery on Saturday and we'll celebrate that on Sunday.

july 2 schedule

9am classes
10am worship