Jun 9, 2020 | Devotional, Shepherding, Sunday Sermons, Worship Service
As Christ’s church, we have crossed the three-month mark of not being able to gather. We are longing to come together again. Love compels us. Here we want to summarize the key principles that are directing the decision-making process by which the shepherds continue to...
Jun 5, 2020 | Devotional, Shepherding, Worship Service
IMPORTANCE OF GATHERING When the local church gathers, she gathers as Christ’s church—a holy assembly—to worship God publicly. This is a massive privilege and responsibility. The church gathers to make manifest and thus reveal the worth of Christ, which is to say that...
May 21, 2020 | Devotional, Shepherding, Worship Service
I pray that we would have a holy longing for the church to gather. We are not alone in suffering the pain of separation. Philip Schaff tells us that there were periods in the church’s history when “true Christians were everywhere persecuted and not allowed to...
Apr 27, 2020 | Devotional, Shepherding
I (Pastor Manny) was asked in a recent Q&A, “What is the greatest threat to the church in our culture?” Compelled to answer pastorally, I sought to show that there is an interconnectedness and progression to several great threats that Christ’s church faces today....
Nov 12, 2018 | Devotional, Shepherding
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” (Matthew 6:7–8) You do not believe in the biblical concept...
Nov 5, 2018 | Devotional, Shepherding
How do you speak to God who truly knows everything and has all power to accomplish all good? You speak in deep humility as one in need—as a child who is deeply loved by a perfect Father. This is how Jesus teaches His own to pray, and it is thoroughly God-centered....
