#Lent – An Invitation – tomorrow is the beginning of Lent on the Church Calender. This can be an amazing time of reflection on all that has been provided us through Christ’s sacrifice as we lead up to celebrating the His resurrection on Easter. We uploaded a special devotional entitled “It is Finished” to our app. Why not make Lent more than a ritual of giving up something. Make it deeply meaningful by adding to your faith by getting to know our Lord better. Download the app by textings ccsi app to 77977. The devotiinal is under media.

“Christians whose worldview — whose way of looking at the world— is decisively shaped by the Bible’s story line cannot forget that we human beings have been made in the image of God; that our first obligation is to recognize our creatureliness, and thus our joyful obligation to our Creator; that sin is nothing other than de-godding God; that our dignity as God’s image bearers is horribly marred by our rebellion; that the entire race, and all of human history, is rushing toward final accountability before this God who is no less our Judge than our Maker; that there is a new heaven and a new earth to gain and a hell to fear; that our sole hope of reconciliation with this God is by the means he himself has provided in his Son; that the people of God are made up of human beings from every language and tribe and nation, and, empowered by God’s Spirit, are growing in personal and corporate obedience and love, rejoicing to come under the reign of God in anticipation of the consummation of that reign. Meanwhile, we are enjoined to do good to all, especially — but certainly not exclusively! — those of the household of faith. In other words, Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality.”

D. A. Carson in Christ and Culture Revisited

“We no longer feel ourselves to be guests in someone else’s home and therefore obliged to make our behavior conform with a set of preexisting cosmic rules. It is our creation now. We make the rules. We establish the parameters of reality. We create the world, and because we do, we no longer feel beholden to outside forces. We no longer have to justify our behavior, for we are now the architects of the universe. We are responsible to nothing outside ourselves, for we are the kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever and ever.” – Jeremy Rifkin, Algen: A New Word — A New World – quoted by D. A. Carson in Christ and Culture Revisited

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