10/6/2024
Seeking to bring every area of life into joyful submission to the Lordship of Christ
Seeking to bring every area of life into joyful submission to the Lordship of Christ
Posts by Nick Esch
How much thought do you put into worship on Sunday—the songs we sing, the words we read, the prayers we pray, the things we do, and the sermons we hear? Are you relatively passive about it all, not giving much thought to anything? Are you slightly hostile to it—contrasting what we’re seeing, hearing, reading, doing,…
Throughout church history two of the main ways the church has been referred to is the Church Militant and the Church Triumphant. The Church Militant refers to the Bride of Christ as she currently is on earth, in the midst of spiritual warfare, evangelism, missions, suffering, and perseverance. It’s the church in this life actively…
G. K. Chesterton once said, “When a man has found something which he prefers to life, then for the first time he begins to live.” If that’s true, then last week I saw our beloved brother, Don Thurman, more full of life than ever before. No doubt, Don preferred Jesus to life long before he…
Loyd Donald Thurman was born near Winnsboro, TX on January 21, 1935, and passed away on July 24, 2024 at his home in Terrell, TX. Don graduated from Adamson High School in Dallas, and received a Bachelor and Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Southern Methodist University. He was a Licensed Professional Engineer in…
Seeking to bring every area of life into joyful submission to the Lordship of Christ THE BELIEFS, BYLAWS, CONSTITUTION, AND PRACTICES of CORNERSTONE REFORMED CHURCH TERRELL, TEXAS Adopted by the membership on April 17, 2016. Revised by the membership on April 29, 2018, July 18, 2021, October 1, 2023, and March 24, 2024. Preamble Since…
A few of us are reading through Thoughts For Young Men by J. C. Ryle. At one point in the book he says, “Habits, like trees, are strengthened by age… The older the stronger; the longer they have held possession the harder they will be to cast out. They grow with our growth and strengthen…
Every Lord’s Day we come together for Covenant Renewal Worship. This doesn’t mean that our covenant with God expires each week unless we or God renew it every Sunday. God’s Covenant of Grace is an everlasting Covenant. But, from our standpoint, our participation in the Covenant is designed to grow and flourish. Just as food…
Ephesians 1:3 says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.” Then later, Ephesians 1:20-22 says that Christ has risen victoriously from the grave and is now seated at the right hand of the Father in the heavenly…
In the Great Commission we are commanded to disciple the nations, and at the heart of how we are to do that is teaching them to observe all that Christ has commanded (Matthew 28:18-20). But, the posture of the world (the nations) today is one of intolerance, emotionalism, and being easily offended (that’s especially true…