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How to prepare for worship on Sunday Feb 25, 2024

We're just about at the midway point of our Making Room project. Throughout the month of November we'll be taking stock of where we're at and reminding ourselves of where we're going. We'll do this by studying the book of Ruth.

Congregational Meeting Recap

Making Room, who's afraid of deconstruction, and getting ready for sunday

This happy convergence got me thinking about Paul's emphasis in the second half of Romans 2 on the dangers of an empty spiritual life. Paul gives a few signs to help us diagnose this kind of "dead orthodoxy" in ourselves.

This weekend Pastor Mike walked us through the story of David bringing the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem. There's a lot going on in this episode: Uzzah's death, David's dance, Michal's mockery. But this week I was thinking mostly about what the ark of the covenant represented to the people of Israel.

Amazing Grace was written by John Newton as a New Year's song. It's original title, which I like quite a bit better, was "Faith's Review and Expectation." The idea was to sing out the previous year by looking back at all that God had led you through (that's faith's review); and to look ahead to the next year with hope for more of God's grace (that's faith's expectation). It's a wonderful idea, and we have made it our practice at New City to have it be our last song to close the year, and first song of the new year -- bookending the year signing about his grace.