Week of March 7, 2010
Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sermon Text: Acts 16:11-18
Sermon Title: “God Opens the Heart”
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Sermon Text: Exodus 19:5,6; Romans 6:12-15; 1 Peter 2:5
Sermon Title: “The Third Use of the Law” WCF 19:6,7
Announcements
Today - We want to welcome you to Bonita Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Pastor Stephen Parker will preach at the Morning and Evening Worship Services.
Family Bible Study and Prayer - This Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. Lee McMorris will lead the Bible Study. We will be studying Westminster Larger Catechism #183. “For whom are we to pray? ” All are welcome to come.
Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship - is having a Parenting Seminar, this Saturday from 9am-4pm.at the Grace Bible Church, 655 W. 11th Ave., Escondido, CA 92025. Pick up a registration form on the back table.
Family Bible Camp - will begin June 28th and go to July 2nd. It is time to "mark your Calender" to save the date for this years camp. See flyer on back table.
Week of February 28, 2010
Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sermon Text: Acts 16:1-15
Sermon Title: “The Closing and Opening of Doors and Hearts"
Announcements
Today – Pastor Stephen Parker will preach at the Morning Worship Service, and will administer the Lord's Supper. There will be no evening service.
Feast Day Today – We call the last Sunday of the month “Feast Day”. Everyone is invited to stay after the morning service to have a meal together.
Family Bible Study and Prayer - This Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. Lee McMorris will lead the Bible Study. We will be studying Westminster Larger Catechism #182. “How doth the Spirit help us to pray” All are welcome to come.
March for Life – This Saturday, March 6th at Santee Lakes, sponsored by East County Pregnancy Care Clinic.
Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship - is having a Parenting Seminar, March 13th from 9am-4pm.at the Grace Bible Church, 655 W. 11th Ave., Escondido, CA 92025.
Family Bible Camp - will begin June 28th and go to July 2nd. It is time to "mark your Calender" to save the date for this years camp.
Week of February 21, 2010
Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sermon Text: Acts 15:22-41
Sermon Title: “The Letter and Division”
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Sermon Text: Psalm 119:105-112
Sermon Title: “Following the Light”
Announcements
Today Morning Service– We want to welcome you to Bonita Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Pastor Stephen Parker will preach at the Morning and Evening Worship Services.
Next Sunday is Communion – Prepare your hearts this week for the Lord's Supper.
Next Sunday is Feast Day – We will have a meal together after the morning service. Everyone is invited to stay.
Family Bible Study and Prayer - This Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. Lee McMorris will lead the Bible Study. We will be studying Westminster Larger Catechism #181. “Why are we to pray in the name of Christ” All are welcome to come.
March for Life - Saturday, March 6th at Santee Lakes, sponsored by East County Pregnancy Care Clinic. Please visit website, http://www.ecpcc.org
Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship - is having a Parenting Seminar, March 13th from 9am-4pm.at the Grace Bible Church, 655 W. 11th Ave., Escondido, CA 92025.
Week of February 14, 2010
Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sermon Text: Acts 15:1-21
Sermon Title: “The Judiazer Threat”
Announcements
Today Morning Service– We want to welcome you to Bonita Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Pastor Stephen Parker will preach at the Morning Worship Service.
Today Evening Service– Time change - 4:30 p.m. Rev. Douglas Clawson, Associate General Secretary for OPC Foreign Missions will give a report on the OPC Foreign Missions
Family Bible Study and Prayer - This Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. Lee McMorris will lead the Bible Study. We will be studying Westminster Larger Catechism #180. “What is it to pray in the name of Christ?” All are welcome to come.
Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship - is having a Parenting Seminar, March 13th from 9am-4pm.at the Grace Bible Church, 655 W. 11th Ave., Escondido, CA 92025.
Family Bible Camp - will begin June 28th and go to July 2nd. It is time to "mark your Calender" to save the date for this years camp.
Haiti Relief Fund - can be sent to THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN MISSIONS • P.O. Box P, Willow Grove, PA 19090 E-MAIL OPForeignMissions@opc.org
Transplanting Roses
This last week my intern and I, set about transplanting 7 rose bushes. I had placed them on a slope in my front yard, with partial shade from a camphor tree. When I planted them, I really did not know much about their needs. These roses had been struggling for 3 years and were not thriving well. There were several problems:
- The tree roots were pervasive and choking them out, they were in a kind of "bondage" to the tree roots, which limited them and was gradually killing them.
- They were in "darkness", getting very little direct sunlight.
- The tree took most of the water and nourishment.
- The tree dropped all kinds of dead trash on them.
Just Like These Roses
In their new soil, they have open sunlight, no tree roots to choke and compete with them, and no trash dropping on them. Now they can grow, produce blooms as they were designed and give glory to their Creator…just like us, in Christ. Our natural environment is like those roses, in bondage to sin, choked by it, dying, in darkness with no light. We can't do anything about the tree, and we can't transplant ourselves. All that we can do is die under the domination of the "tree/our sin". God in Christ, sets us free, transplanting us as it were, and the bondage of sin is broken.
Live In The Will of God
Peter, in his epistle, ch. 4:2, tells the dispersed believers, that they should "no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God." As I used this as an illustration in my evening sermon, my point was that we should live in our new "soil"/circumstances, not in the old bondage, because we have been set free in Christ. And then we can "bloom" as our Creator designed us, and give Him all of the glory. ref. - June 3, 2007, "Armed with an Attitude".
A Study on the Definite Atonement of Christ.
I received a story about a teacher who wanted to get the message of Christ’s death across to his students, who seemed disinterested. He offered then each a donut, but had a student with perfect grades, do 10 push-ups for each one, whether or not they wanted the donut. It paralleled the free offer of the gospel, Christ dying for everyone, whether they accepted it or not. This is a flawed view of the substitutionary atonement. So, here is a short Bible study on the atonement.