“The Word Became Flesh” Advent Sermons

I’m very excited about our Advent sermon series — “The Word Became Flesh” — on the incarnation, from John 1:1-14, which begins today. Within a few days, each sermon should be available at our Sermon Audio site.
May God be praised.
— pdb

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The end of Isaiah….

Yesterday, I preached our 79th and final sermon on the Old Testament book of ISAIAH, using the final 2 paragraphs as our text. ISAIAH is such a glorious book — this was a moving experience for me.
During the week I finished reading several of the commentaries I had been using for these [...]

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Love the church…

Dr Derek Thomas recently wrote of his love for the church – I couldn’t agree more! Ponder his warm, even passionate words…
“Love me, love my dog,” they say, and my poor dog has been sick all summer and continues to be in bad shape. But it is not dogs I am writing about here; [...]

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Worship at the center…

A great comment was made by someone at CPCC the other day, reminding us that whatever we do as a church — including evangelism and outreach — must flow out of worship. He had just read the following (from an OPC publication, available online), where author Larry Wilson quotes John Piper. It is [...]

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Week of Prayer 2009 begins

With each new year comes a need for our annual Week of Prayer at CPCC! Each Prayer Week begins with a fresh sermon on prayer from God’s Word. This year our guest preacher is Rev. Jim Hale of Saratoga Chapel in Ballston Lake, NY.
Pastor Hale preached yesterday in our morning service from Acts [...]

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Praying for a Pastor

An older, wiser brother in the Lord, Pastor Ligon Duncan, (one of the T4G founders) put these thoughts together on how one might pray for their pastor….
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1. That [your pastor] would know and love the living God, would have a saving interest in Christ, being purchased by His blood, and thus would be bound [...]

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Advice I’m finding helpful…

Today (my day off, when I do most of my blog-reading and blog writing for the week) I cam across two little gems on doing pastoral ministry — and one for you, the pastor’s audience. I found all three at a site called CHURCH MATTERS, run by the 9Marks ministry of Mark Dever.
Gem #1 [...]

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Moving a thousand books – again

The offices at our church were damaged by water coming through the flat roof last spring. When the leak was spotted, my kids and I were able to remove my pastor’s library (over 1,200 books) to another room in under 20 minutes! Thankfully only a couple were damaged by water. The rooms are now [...]

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Why Pastors Should Blog

“6 Reasons Pastors Should Blog“
By Abraham Piper (from his blog at DesiringGod.org)
In this article I want to convince as many pastors as possible to sit down and start a blog today. If I can’t convince them, then I want to convince churchgoers to hound their pastor until he does.
OK, all that’s overstatement, perhaps. You [...]

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Thoughts at the side of a grave

A sketch of my graveside remarks & scriptures at the burial of John Forringer, 11 o’clock AM, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Clarion, PA

WE THANK GOD, that in His great mercy, men have been born again into a life full of hope, through Christ’s rising from the dead! Do not be afraid! “I [...]

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