Due to precautionary measures put in place today by South Washington County Schools, we will need to cancel our Sunday gathering planned for this coming Sunday, March 15. We received word today from the district saying that they are “taking steps to limit crowds or other large gatherings in [their] schools.” Those steps include our use of the building on Sunday. So again, there will be NO SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE THIS COMING SUNDAY, March 15. As of now, the steps taken by the district only limit us for this coming Sunday. However, it is possible that we will be impacted for Sundays beyond this weekend as well, either because of measures imposed by the district, or those we might consider for ourselves. We will continue to keep an eye on updates from the school district, and recommendations from the MN Department of Health. We’ll also monitor decisions made by other local churches and the TCT network to consider if their response measures might also seem reasonable for our church family. And as we do, we will certainly keep you posted. In the meantime, in light of this Sunday’s cancelation, I’d encourage you to gather with your family in whatever way might feel redeeming and refreshing for you. Maybe take the time to catch up on one of Pastor Brett’s sermons in the Acts series that you’ve missed. Or if you missed any of our vision refresh sermons from January, maybe leverage some time on Sunday to watch one of those. Or, gather as a family, sing a few songs, and select a passage of Scripture on which too meditate together. Again, whatever might feel redeeming and refreshing for your family under the circumstances. Thank you for your flexibility and understanding! And please spread the word ...
"It's the covenant that sustains the love, not the love that sustains the covenant." Check out this fantastic 5 minute discussion aboutsustaining the covenant of marital love. It's part of several roundtable discussions between D.A. Carson, John Piper, and Tim Keller of The Gospel Coalition....
Keep ReadingChrist Died For The Sins Of Christians Too-This is aGREATarticle reminding the reader about what the gospel is, and who it's for! There's a helpful (and needed, I think) splash of church history / historical theology to boot. I commend it's reading! A few highlights (boldfacemine): "The whole gospel is outside of us." "This 'alien' nature of the gospel is a primary them...
Keep ReadingFinally... the last post in this series. If you haven't already, please take time to read theprevious parts:1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and8. This is the last entry for this series on what we hope will shape our church ministry to young people - roughly 12-18 years old - along with their families. I've been sketching the 9 "vision pillars" on which we hope our ministry will be built....
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Keep ReadingThis is part 5 in this series of posts. If you haven't already, please take time to read parts1,2,3, and4 As I've mentioned in the previous posts, we hope to build the youth and young adult ministry of Christ Redeemer Church on top of severalvision pillars.The fourth one (in no particular order, by the way) has to do with the role of a young person's family and church r...
Keep ReadingThis is part 4 in this series of posts. If you haven't already, please take time to read parts1,2, and3. Not only do we want to see young people enjoying the benefits of biblical fellowship together with their peers and families, but we also want to see them flourishing in the local church as contributors to its mission. We want young men and young women invested througho...
Keep ReadingThis is part 3 in this series of posts. If you haven't already, please take time to read parts1and2. Christ Redeemer Church wants to see God's kingdom advance through the gospel of Jesus Christ for the Glory of God and the joy of all peoples. Under that broad vision, we want to see young people loving Jesus together with others who love Jesus. That's the thrust of our se...
Keep ReadingThis is part 2 in this series of posts. If you haven't already, please take time to readpart 1. Under the broad vision we have at Christ Redeemer to see God's kingdom advance through the gospel of Jesus, we want to build our ministry to the youth and young adults in our midst upon severalvision pillars.The first of which is directly related to the gospel of Jesus: Lovin...
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