It’s the season for fasting and prayer at TACC. Many of us have never fasted and so this will be an exploration in a new biblical discipline. Jesus expected us to fast. He said that when he left us that we would fast. So why is it so rare? I place much of the weight of this omission on
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10 ways to fight for the gifts of grace that come from the divinely ordained fellowship of the saints around the Supper of Remembrance.
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I ride a road bike (sometimes), and a mountain bike (more often). I can usually carry a spirited, even religious, conversation with anyone about either discipline. You don't have to ask me to talk about it
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The heart and soul of our devotion to God, in our time of devotions, to use an old but good word, must be the Word of God. Of all the spiritual disciplines, the Word must be the center, and the center of the Word is Christ. This time of singular and focused devotion requires the help of the Spirit and so requires our sincere prayer to him for help. Humility in our inability to derive benefit all by ourselves must be at the heart of devotions.
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When we gather we encourage each other to read the Bible with joy and delight. We do so because: 1. The Bible is the perfect, without error, very words of God to us that speak primarily of His glory and grace in sending His Son to live and die and rise from the dead in order to rule all creation. They instruct us to delight
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What’s the benediction at the close of our worship service for? It is a request for God to pour out His grace in response to our worship and renewed conviction to love and serve Him in all we do. It’s a blessing in
Keep Reading We make verbal announcements of ministry opportunities at TACC so that the believers at TACC can serve. We do not, and in fact, cannot announce every event because we do not have enough time and we are good at forgetting. That’s why when you send your husband to the store, if he has to remember more than 2 items, you give him a list. That’s also why
Keep Reading We pray in our corporate worship service because God answers prayer. Prayer is one of the first acts of a new believer, and the most natural of actions for all believers. Prayer is coming to the God of all grace who loves to hear and answer our requests. Additionally
Keep Reading Our giving is a part of our worship on Sunday mornings. Giving as worship is expanded upon in 2 Corinthians 8-9. The following is a summary of the teaching on giving by Paul.
Keep ReadingNov 3
2016
I've been fascinated in the last several months with how many times the Bible encourages us to stop, listen, hear, and take heed to the Word of God, the Bible. We think that simply reading the Bible and agreeing with it is all that God requires, or that this kind of simple agreement is adequate. Not so!
Oct 27
2016
A quick guide to understanding baptism. What it is, what it means, and why we do it.
Oct 27
2016
A Wedding Ceremony...similar to the one you experienced last year or in the 60's. Not a bad idea to read it again and remember what you promised to God and her/him.
Oct 27
2016
A few years back I was rummaging through some old storage boxes and found my first computer hard drive. I jury-rigged it up to a newer computer, hashed through the folders and found this note from a friend sent via email.
Jul 7
2015
Augustine's words "Take up and read!" are a great representation of my attitude toward this article. Take up and read! -Pastor Bob
This blog post could be titled "Articles I Wish I Wrote, by Pastor Bob." See below for some wonderful insight from Kevin DeYoung!
May 15
2015
In an ever changing world which has lost its moral compass there are some shining stars. Humility in all the right places!
The issue of so-called same sex marriage is dominating the news. And it should! This might possibly be the most massive shift in the law in the history of our county. We need to be ready and able to defend God's design not only biblically but philosophically and rationally. This blog post by Michael Kruger will be helpful as you formulate your responses in a gentle and respectful way.
It is a liability, living where we do. Orange county - money, Disneyland, doctors, food (plenty of it), and more. That necessary sense of desperation that should accompany the Christian's prayer life is not common today. Occasionally we encounter deep troubles that bring us humbly to our knees: family issues, health, accidents. But, it seems that part of the ordinary life of the ordinary believer should include a sort of trust and confidence in God that isn't regularly present for us. I don't mean the sort of trust we usually think of; I mean looking to Him continually in gratefulness, and a weighty acknowledgment that without His blessing, the whole thing would fall apart. This desperation, tempered almost paradoxically with the confidence we have from the Gospel, must be present in us when we go to God, to truly call our brand of prayer "good." What about the millions in Orange County who have no notion of the coming judgment, no idea of the free grace available in Jesus? Who feels desperation in prayer for them in the same way that the Apostle Paul did for his kinsmen in Romans 9:1-3; 10:1? The topic of this blog from Kevin DeYoung is prayer and its attributes: desperate, continual, comforting and necessary.
With all the troubles the world is in, what should the believer do? How do we respond? What about the government and a President with a different set of governing principles? What do we say, how do we pray?
