“God exists to be worshipped—to be admired and treasured and desired and praised. Therefore, the Word of God is written primarily to produce worship. This means that if that Word is handled like a hot-dish recipe or a repair manual, it is mishandled. And the people will suffer. The Truth of God begs to be handled with exultation. And our hearts yearn for this and need it. Something in us starts to die when precious and infinitely valuable realities are handled without feelings and words of wonder and exultation. That is, a church starts to die without preaching.
But, of course, this assumes something massive. To treasure the Truth, and to love the Truth, and be impassioned about the Truth, and to exult in the Truth, you have to know the Truth. So it’s not enough to say that preaching is exultation. We must also say it is “expository exultation.” It is exultation in the Truth of God’s Word. And the exultation is in proportion to the Truth delivered.” — John Piper
The Topic: Expository Preaching
The Date: June 24, 2011
The Place: Believers’ Chapel
The Address: 12 West 22nd Street, Baltimore, MD 21217
Come on out with questions, insights, and concerns. Bring with you a passion for growth and a prayer to spark a Modern Reformation.
For some of you it has been a while since we’ve seen you and you’ve been missed. So join us this Friday and let’s catch up. And bring 39 of your closest friends with you. Better yet invite…no bring all of your Facebook friends!
FOURTH FRIDAY FUNDAMENTALS IS ON THE FIFTH FRIDAY THIS MONTH 4/29/2011
Have you ever invited someone over to live with you, only to have them stand in the doorway? Well that overly simplistic image captures the failure of the contemporary church as it witnesses but stops short of intentionally seeking to disciple its membership.
Discipleship is a full-orbed reaching out and pouring into the lives of others in the new covenant community. It is life on life.
Clearly stated it encompasses relationship building, mentoring, serving one another, counseling, and teaching one another to draw near to the heart of God. It is modeling the Christian life for those young in the faith. It is provoking saints to love and good works…even when it’s uncomfortable to do so. It is praying with and praying for one another. It is rejoicing and weeping with others when the situation calls for it.
And this is a mere intro to the discussion. Come out and get into a convo that will prayerful spark more sincere relationship building that draws saints closer to the heart of God. Join us as we go in on the topic of Biblical Discipleship.
Hey ‘love wins’! In the end…in the final analysis love wins. Sounds good doesn’t it? But what does it mean? Does it mean that we can dispense with the urgent and joyful activity of spreading the good news ‘that salvation is granted by grace, received by faith, grounded in Christ, and reflective of the glory of God’ (Joel Beeke)?
Most assuredly not! It is probably more accurate to say that love has won through what Christ accomplished on the Cross.
God in the Triune counsel of love, before creation itself, framed a completed plan to accomplish salvation for a people who were His enemies through the work of Christ and to draw those people into His family. They would be drawn by God enriched conversations that communicate the meaning, purpose, and final direction of creation.
This month we set our sights on those conversations which we refer to as Biblical Evangelism. It is not a sales pitch. It is not an assault of logical ideas. It is a thoughtful and provocative discussion couched in clear language colored with urgency and love.
Join the discussion that will prayerful spark more conversations. Join us as we go in on the topic of Biblical Evangelism.
GUEST PREACHER!!
Pastoral Intern and Deacon of Missions from Hope Bible Fellowship Roderick Montgomery!
Pastor Chuck Vuolo from New Life Christian Community Church! (Pastor Chuck Vuolo will be joining us in May when we deal with the topic: Biblical Leadership) Derek is preaching 2/4/2011
Where?
Believer’s Chapel
12 West 22nd Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
When?
2/4/2011
What time?
8:00 PM
Who should come?
You!?!? And like 15 of your closest friends…12 family members…9 complete strangers…and a partridge in a…uh nevermind.
In case you missed it…we’re talking about church membership.
Patience is a Holy Spirit dispensed grace gift freely lavished on the people of God. It feasts on the milk and meat of Scripture; and it uses Scripture as a comfort and guide. This grace gift reveals itself in a built up disposition of confidence and composure to the wise and sovereign timing of the Lord.
GUEST ARTIST!!
This month we have a guest artist. Lampmode Recording artist, shai linne (the lowercase emcee) will be in attendance presenting the truth lyrically.
Believer’s Chapel
12 West 22nd Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
What time?
8:00 PM
This is the last FFF of this year so come out. We would love to see you in the place. Please join us this month as we look to be nourished in truth and challenged to apply it.
Our aim is to act as platform to bring the foundational tenets of the faith into the spotlight so that souls are refreshed and invigorated by the brilliance of the Triune God. We want to be the catalyst the Lord is pleased to use to spark a Modern Reformation in the urban context…suburban context…and anywhere else the opportunity presents itself. We attempt to do this by taking the precious revelatory Holy Writ of God (feeling a little poetic, by this I mean the Bible) and presenting it in a multi-angular fashion using various media to make it plain.
Join us August 27, 2010 @ 8:00 PM
at Believer’s Chapel
12 West 22nd Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
as we consider we consider the believers’ encouragement and the virtue that sparks joy and strengthens patience. This month’s topic is Hope. Joining us this month is we have:
Sermons updated! July’s FFF was a blessing as Derek Pulliam took us through a biblical look at the topic of Joy. You can get the sermon (and others) over on the media page (July 2010) to download directly or simply subscribe to the podcast (the easy way) to get all of them!
And did we mention our podcast is in the iTunes store now ? It is. 🙂
More good things! August 23, 2010, Pastor Damon Horton aka Azriel will be not only the guest artist for the night (ministering cuts from his new CD Systematic Theology Volume One – pick this up quickly!), but he will also be the speaker on this month’s topic: Hope.
Haven’t been to FFF in a while ? We’ll remind you again in a few days. You’ll want to be here for the fellowship, edification and more! 12 W. 22nd Street in Baltimore at Believers’ Chapel. We begin at 8! Hope to see you there!
Over at our sister site, Theologically Correct dot Com, it’s Q & A time. Got hard questions on the Christian faith ? Questions on what doctrines are right ? Get more info and shoot us a link here: http://theologicallycorrect.com/?p=199
Major announcement on FFF for August coming SOON! 🙂 Stay tuned…. (and don’t forget FFF for July 23….it’ll be here soon!).
This month we’re considering the topic of forgiveness. Prayerfully the Lord will be pleased to both challenge and transform us all as we meditate on this fundamental Christian attitude. Dealing with topic forgiveness, Pastor John MacArthur has said the following:
Listen, God is perfectly holy. He is thrice holy…holy, holy, holy. He is of purer eyes than to behold evil, cannot look upon iniquity. He cannot tolerate sin. He despises sin. He hates sin. And while He is forgiving there will be an end to His patience and He will not endure sin forever. There will come a time of judgment and justice. He says that all the way back in Exodus 34 and verse 7. At the same time that God is forgiving, there is an end to His forgiveness because ultimately His holiness will take over where there is impenitence. He is perfectly holy and ultimate, ultimately does require a just punishment for sin…either from the sinner or from a substitute for the sinner, namely His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. To say that is to say that God is holy and sets a holy standard, so much so that ultimately sinners unforgiven will be damned to an eternal hell of punishment. There’s no question about the extent of God’s holiness. And that in itself makes His forgiveness all the more astonishing. God then who is most holy, God who is most supremely offended forgives.
We who are unholy shall we not forgive? What is it, some kind of God complex people have who won’t forgive? Indeed it is. You have an elevated opinion of yourself who will not forgive. You have exalted yourself to a standard higher than God.
I pray this quote resonants with you throughout the week and compels you to join us this Friday.
Revival 2K10: Worshiping God through Preaching, Praise and Prayer
Revival 2K10 will be a time of worship and renewal as God’s people gather to worship Him through preaching, prayer and praise. We will also pray for His blessing and power for genuine revival in our churches and communities.
Speakers Doug Logan of Epiphany Fellowship of Philadelphia, Kevin Smith of Pinelands Presbyterian Church of Miami and Thurman Williams of New Song Community Church in Baltimore will exhort God’s people to worship God, walk before God and witness of the gospel of Jesus Christ as an end in and of itself.
