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Jesus Will Save

Posted by JJ Sherwood on

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.Matthew 1.21 Every Christmas advertisement proclaims to have "the" thing you and your family need this holiday season. The reality, however, is that nothing you buy on this earth...

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Tags: christmas, jesus, advent

Easter Week Day By Day

Posted by JJ Sherwood on

The Gospel Coalition has some excellent resources to help you walk through Easter Week as we look to worship together on Resurrection Sunday. Click here for an overview of the entire week and here for a breakdown of each day: Palm Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday...

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Tags: easter, holy week, jesus, jesús, resurrection

Maturing in Christ Together

Posted by JJ Sherwood on

With Labor Day in the rearview mirror and students back to school, our attention turns to the beginning of another ministry year. Our desire at Five Points Community Church is to proclaim Jesus Christ, teaching everyone with all wisdom so that, as the apostle Paul writes in Colossians 1.28...

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Sorrow to Joy

Posted by Brett Toney on

Next week is a special week. Yes, no week is more or less holy than another, but next week presents the opportunity to join with Christians the world over in giving particular focus to why we are not to be pitied most among men (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:19). As we anticipate giving special focus...

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Tags: devotional, easter, good friday, holy week

Wash Her With the WORD

Posted by Brett Toney on

Husbands are called to imitate Jesus in relating to their wives (Ephesians 5:25). We are to provide and protect our wives physically and spiritually. One way in particular that is done is by “the washing of water with the word” (v.26)—bathing your wife in the Word of God. Pray...

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Tags: bible study, marriage, women's bible study

NEW BIBLE STUDY HOUR CLASSES BEGINNING

Posted by Mark Kakkuri on

Starting this Sunday, September 7, we have new Bible Study Hour classes (9:30 am) for adults that are starting. Cindy Verner will continue to teach a women's study on the Gospel of John (in Rooms C & D), and Mike Houston, elder, and Eric Leiendecker, deacon, will continue to lead the College...

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Tags: bible study hour, doctrines of grace, calvinism

Why Does Baptism Precede The Lord's Supper?

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Posted by JJ Sherwood on

We regularly celebrate the Lord’s Supper during our corporate worship but the Supper is not for everyone in attendance, so we practice what is called ‘fencing the table.’ At Five Points, we fence the table by giving initial instructions as to who can partake of the communion...

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Tags: baptism, communion, lord's supper

Covenant With a Cost

Posted by Brett Toney on

Today, 1,982 years ago, Jesus instituted an act of worship and fellowship for his Church to carry out. Luke records: And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For...

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Tags: good friday, lord's supper, new covenant

Behind the Façade

Posted by Brett Toney on

Hopefully you have seen or heard about by now of the undercover videos that capture the admission of Planned Parenthood representatives to selling the body parts of aborted children. I read a few articles over the weekend about it and thought I'd share a brief round up. Ross Douthat, writing...

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Tags: abortion, life

Coming Soon: Five Points Online Community

Posted by Mike Sherf on

"...we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love." Ephesians 4:15-16 One of...

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