COV LIFE BLOG

Hosea 1:1 Introduction to Our Series: “God’s Faithful Love”

The people chosen of God to be His own people, upon whom He had lavished His love, had turned their backs upon Him, and were spending the very gifts of love in lewdness; and the prophet adopted the most tragic and awful illustration, as he declared that the sin of Israel in her infidelity to […]

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Posted on: July 31, 2014 - 10:00PM

Resource Highlight – Think

Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. – 2 Timothy 2:7 When it comes to Christian living, the importance of the mind is a subject too often overlooked. In a book called Think, John Piper sets the stage for the importance of this specific theme. He explores the teachings […]

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Posted on: July 28, 2014 - 8:30AM

Matthew 9:35-38 Prayer for Laborers for the Harvest

THE Lord frequently taught His disciples that they must pray, and how; but seldom what to pray. This he left to their sense of need, and the leading of the Spirit. But here we have one thing He expressly enjoins them to remember: in view of the plenteous harvest, and the need of reapers, they must cry to the Lord […]

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Posted on: July 24, 2014 - 10:00PM

Ephesians 6:10-17 Spiritual Warfare

It is in the heavenly realms we struggle, we wrestle. Not against flesh and blood . .. but in the heavenly realms.So the cure can only be a spiritual cure. We cannot use ordinary water to wash away the guilt of sin. We cannot use bread and butter to feed the hungry souls of people. We cannot use grape juice […]

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Posted on: July 17, 2014 - 10:00PM

The Purity of the Church

In [Jeremiah’s] account, the faces of the Lord’s people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the […]

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Posted on: July 10, 2014 - 10:00PM

Summary of the Book of Acts

Acts is the book that reveals the power of the church. Therefore, when a church begins to dwindle, lose its power, and turn dull and drab in its witness, it needs desperately to get back into the spirit, expectation, knowledge and teaching of the book of Acts. That is what the book of Acts is […]

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Posted on: July 3, 2014 - 10:00PM

Recap from the 2014 TGC National Women’s Conference

“Almost certainly, no one has ever read that to you before,” Tim Keller quipped after reading Nehemiah 3 to the congregation, which is mostly a list of gates and people with hard-to-pronounce names. I chuckled to myself, thinking, I guess he’s never been to Covenant Life, as our pastors have read every word of Ezra […]

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Posted on: July 1, 2014 - 10:15AM