Join us this month as we raise our voices in THANKSGIVING and in PRAYER to our heavenly Father because:
• On the Friday in Easter Week, I will be heading to Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr PA for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, Redemption Accomplished and Applied. I am a Saturday workshop leader in a session entitled, “Preaching (and Listening for) Christ Crucified”. The purpose of the workshop is to support the preacher and the listener of sermons make sure that this essential doctrine remains front and center. Give THANKS to God for providing us and many others with this time for spiritual refreshment and edification. PRAY that he would guide me to providential meetings with people that produce good outcomes for All Souls. ASK God to give me wisdom as I lead my workshop.
• My blog post for the Alliance on Meet the Puritans, entitled The 39 on the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, is drawing to a close. Feedback has been very positive and my editor Rev. Danny Hyde is very keen that all the posts should be gathered together as a book designed for small group and Sunday School. Give THANKS that the blog has met a need among many Anglicans. PRAY that may revise my posts in such a way that will be most effective for local churches and that I will complete the work in a timely way so that it will be well received when it’s published.
• All Souls has a new seasonal sign (see below). Our hosts Covenant Presbyterian have graciously given permission to include it in their rotation of signs. It is much larger than our permanent sign and can be seen at a distance by the thousands of cars that pass on the southbound side of the King’s Highway. Give THANKS for our hosts in their support of our church plant. We continue to HOPE that God will bring people to replace the family who are leaving for Georgia. He is a mountain-mover (Mark 11.23), and we believe he can move people into this church if that is his will. PRAY that he would stretch out his mighty arm to gather people to All Souls, including non-Christian seekers.
• In our expository sermon series on Luke’s Gospel, we will jump ahead from the Triumphal Entry to Luke’s account of our Savior’s burial and resurrection. Luke’s pattern is to underline the significance of the resurrection from Jesus’ prophetic word about his death and resurrection. It is the Word of God that makes sense of everything. The very structure of Luke’s final chapter makes this very clear. PRAY that I will know how to keep such an important teaching of the priority of God’s Word clear for our congregation.
