COV LIFE BLOG

Genesis 4:17-6:8 – God’s Grief Towards Sin and Affections Towards the Righteous

HEART PREPARATION “The dealings of the Lord in his own case, cause the grateful singer to remember the usual rule of God’s moral government; he is just in his dealings with the sons of men, and metes out to each man according to his measure. “With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an […]

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Posted on: October 8, 2015 - 10:00PM

CLC Women’s Panel

“We are all relevant to each other,” Holly Edward reminded the women of CLC on September 25th. She continued that our age or life stage isn’t the most relevant factor we all share, but Christ. I think that beautifully sums up the immensely encouraging evening as those in attendance were able to hear seven of our […]

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Posted on: October 6, 2015 - 10:34AM

Genesis 4 – The Devastation of Sin, Punishment for Sin, and God’s Grace To Sinners

HEART PREPARATION “The sin of our nature is like a sleeping lion, the least thing that awakens it makes it rage. The sin of our nature, though it seems quiet, and lies as fire hid under the embers, yet if it be a little stirred and blown up by a temptation, how quickly may it […]

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Posted on: October 1, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 3 – The Deception of Sin, the Punishment for Sin, and Provision for Sin

HEART PREPARATION “This multiform corruption of nature therefore ought not only not to be minimized, but to be as much as possible magnified. It ought to be shown that man is not only fallen from the image’ of God, from the knowledge of God, from the knowledge of all other creatures, and from all the […]

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Posted on: September 24, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 2:18-25 – God’s Good Design in Gender and Marriage

HEART PREPARATION “Men and women were deliberately designed to be different. Indeed, we are specifically created as complements to one another—as different halves of a whole that reflects the glory of God. It’s patently obvious we were created to fit together physically; of course, we couldn’t create life if that weren’t the case. So when […]

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Posted on: September 17, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 1:26 – 2:17 – Created in God’s Image to Reflect God’s Glory

HEART PREPARATION At night you can look up at the stars. Scientists tell us that the light we are seeing from those stars is millions of years old. Some of the stars we see, aren’t even there anymore. They also tell us that those stars are moving farther and farther away from us. If you […]

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Posted on: September 10, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 1:3-2:3 – God’s Work of Creation

HEART PREPARATION “The church’s central message is the cross and resurrection of Christ. It is the message we call the gospel, the good news of salvation to sinful humanity through the atoning work of Jesus Christ. But that message comes to us in the midst of a larger truth, without which there is no context […]

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Posted on: September 3, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 1:1-2:3 – The Beginning of the Story of God and His Creation

HEART PREPARATION Imagine you are one of the people of Israel when the book of Genesis was being written. You are with Moses after coming out of Egypt where there was a god for almost every concept imaginable. In Egypt, there was a god for love and a god for wisdom, a god for the […]

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Posted on: August 27, 2015 - 10:00PM

The Church Is On Mission Together – Evangelism

Ultimately, our motive in evangelism must be a desire to see God glorified. This was the end of all of the Lord Jesus’ actions (see John 17). Again and again throughout Ezekiel we read the phrase “then they will know that I am the LORD” as God’s explanation for his actions with his disobedient people […]

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Posted on: August 20, 2015 - 10:00PM

The Church Scatters Together – Biblical Discipleship – Matthew 28:18-20

What is biblical discipleship? Of all the questions Christians need to wrestle with, this is one of the most important. Being disciples of Jesus gets to the very core of who we are and what we should be doing with our lives. Disciples are called to follow Christ, and following him means helping others follow […]

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Posted on: August 13, 2015 - 10:00PM