Hello, Church Family!

Saturday April 28, we plan to hold our annual spring cleaning day for our church. The event will give us all an opportunity to pitch in and really give our church a thorough cleaning.

We will be open for cleaning from 9am until we’re done. Come when you can, and spend as much time as you can afford during this time period. If available, two pressure washers are needed.  Please put on your “grubbies” and join us for what promises to be a fun time together making our church look better. If you have questions contact the church.

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Throughout the Bible the central question is, “How can sinful man ever be accepted by a holy God?” The Bible takes sin seriously, much more seriously than do the other literature’s that have come down to us from antiquity. It sees sin as a barrier separating man from God (Isa. 59:2), a barrier that man erected but is quite unable to demolish. But the truth on which the Bible insists is that God has dealt with the problem. He has made the way whereby sinners may find pardon, God’s enemies may find peace. Salvation is never seen as a human achievement.

What is the meaning and significance of the atonement? The Bible uses a host of terms to illuminate the answers to these questions: covenant, sacrifice, the Day of Atonement, Passover, redemption, reconciliation, propitiation, justification. In plain English Leon Morris explains each of these words, thus opening up to us the fuller biblical dimension of God’s great salvation.

Please come join us as we explore the richness of God’s mercy as expressed in the atoning sacrifice of Christ.

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In the early part of the sixteenth century, Christianity was reborn out of the dark ages of sacramental mysticism through the vehicle of preaching and the printing press. For the first time, people were able to hear and read the Bible in their native language.  All great movements and revivals of history related to the spread and growth of the historic Christian faith have been closely associated with getting God’s Word into the ears, hands, and hearts of God’s people—either by preaching or by reading.

The people of God today face a similar watershed moment related to the reception of God’s Word—preached and read.  Like never before have God’s people been able to learn and grow using resources that once were only available to seminary students, pastors, or Bible college professors. As a result of our ever changing and improving technology, Christians now have at their disposal tools the protestant reformers could have never dreamed of.  Imagine in the fifteen hundreds the sermons of Luther & Calvin available for anyone in Germany & Switzerland to listen to in their own home and a time that was uniquely convenient.  Imagine the classic time-tested Christian works available at the click of a button—works that have passed the discerning scrutiny of God’s key leaders through the centuries.

The church faces many struggles related to purity with the ever increasing influence of technology but there is also a strategic advantage as well.  God’s people now have access to Christian truth in their own homes like never before.  The hearing and reading of the Word through the new era of the internet is now upon us.

At CBC, we are thankful to God that we can present God’s Word to anyone who desires it—anywhere, anytime through the world wide web.  In addition to having all of our Sunday morning messages available using streaming audio, we will have a variety of valuable resource links, including classic sermons, written works, etc…   We will also have  a Christian blog that will educate, stimulate, and motivate us toward Christ-likeness.  And make no mistake that is the goal—Christ-likeness.  That we as individual Christians who make up the body of Christ would be conformed to the image of Christ.  That happens through the hearing and reading of truth—along with its commensurate application.

The reason and mission statement for our new website is very simple—that God would be exalted and Christians would be conformed to the image of Christ through the preaching and reading of God’s Word.  The goal of this website is that we would teach people the meaning of Scripture—for the meaning of Scripture is the Scripture.

Look forward to checking in often and using this site for your own Christian growth individually and as a family.

May God bless and be glorified through this website.

In grace,
Pastor Bob

Specifically, starting January 12^th we will be studying John Piper’s classic book titled, “Desiring God – Meditations of A Christian Hedonist”.  Books are free and available upon request.  This study will uncover something many in churches never learn, living the Christian life, including all that encompasses is a joy because of the joy we have in God.  “For the follower of Jesus, delight is the duty, because Christ is the most magnified in His people when they are most satisfied in Him.”

Read this book online or download the PDF.

• Address (2 Peter 1:1-2)
• Exhortation to Christian Virtue (2 Peter 1:3-21)
• Condemnation of the False Teachers (2 Peter 2:1-22)
• The Delay of the Second Coming (2 Peter 3:1-16)
• Final Exhortation and Doxology (2 Peter 3:17-18)

You can listen to these sermons as we go through the book by viewing the 2 Peter series on our sermons page.

In grace,
Pastor Bob