STUDY LINKS & RESOURCES:
THE CRIPPLEGATE - For a new generation of non-conformists, Rom. 12:1-2
REFORMATION 21 - The on-line magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
LIGONIER MINISTRIES - The teaching ministry of R.C. Sproul.
C.A.R.M. - Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry
DO NOT BE SURPRISED - Christians today are in a battle, not of weapons, but of truth
THE HALL OF CHURCH HISTORY - Theology from a bunch of dead guys
THE SLJ INSTITUTE - Featuring the teachings of S. Lewis Johnson
SOLA SISTERS - Sola Fide (by faith alone), Sola Scriptura (by Scripture alone), Sola Gratia (by grace alone), Solo Christo (through Christ alone), Soli Deo Gloria (to God alone be the glory).
THE RIDDLEBLOG - Devoted to reformed theology & eschatology. Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is senior pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California (www.christreformed.org), and co-host of the popular White Horse Inn.
PODCASTS:
ESV THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR - Listen through the complete bible in a year.
THE MORTIFICATION OF SPIN - A bi-monthly casual conversation about things that count. Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt serve up a humorous, informal podcast with bite.
THE WHITEHORSE INN - Know what you believe, and why you believe it.
NO COMPROMISE RADIO - Pastor Mike Abendroth / Always biblical, always provocative, always in that order.
STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH - Hosts Mike LeMay & Amy Spreemen produce a one-hour live radio program to share the news of the day that affects our Christian faith.
THE CRIPPLEGATE - For a new generation of non-conformists, Rom. 12:1-2
REFORMATION 21 - The on-line magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
LIGONIER MINISTRIES - The teaching ministry of R.C. Sproul.
C.A.R.M. - Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry
DO NOT BE SURPRISED - Christians today are in a battle, not of weapons, but of truth
THE HALL OF CHURCH HISTORY - Theology from a bunch of dead guys
THE SLJ INSTITUTE - Featuring the teachings of S. Lewis Johnson
SOLA SISTERS - Sola Fide (by faith alone), Sola Scriptura (by Scripture alone), Sola Gratia (by grace alone), Solo Christo (through Christ alone), Soli Deo Gloria (to God alone be the glory).
THE RIDDLEBLOG - Devoted to reformed theology & eschatology. Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is senior pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California (www.christreformed.org), and co-host of the popular White Horse Inn.
PODCASTS:
ESV THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR - Listen through the complete bible in a year.
THE MORTIFICATION OF SPIN - A bi-monthly casual conversation about things that count. Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt serve up a humorous, informal podcast with bite.
THE WHITEHORSE INN - Know what you believe, and why you believe it.
NO COMPROMISE RADIO - Pastor Mike Abendroth / Always biblical, always provocative, always in that order.
STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH - Hosts Mike LeMay & Amy Spreemen produce a one-hour live radio program to share the news of the day that affects our Christian faith.
CALL TO WORSHIP
LUKE 14:25-33
The Cost of Discipleship
25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
LUKE 14:25-33
The Cost of Discipleship
25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
LBC 1689 Chapter 27:1
1. All saints are united to Jesus Christ their head by his Spirit and by faith, although this does not make them one person with him. They have fellowship in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory.1 Since they are united to one another in love, they have communion in each other’s gifts and graces2 and are obligated to carry out these duties, both public and private, in an orderly way to promote their mutual good, both in the inner and outer aspects of their lives.3
1. All saints are united to Jesus Christ their head by his Spirit and by faith, although this does not make them one person with him. They have fellowship in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory.1 Since they are united to one another in love, they have communion in each other’s gifts and graces2 and are obligated to carry out these duties, both public and private, in an orderly way to promote their mutual good, both in the inner and outer aspects of their lives.3
