Here’s a book written for people who would normally not read theological books. If you’re a Christian who is turned-off by doctrinally faithful but arrogant believers as well as people who are skeptical of the usefulness of Christian doctrine you’ll find this book helpful. It’s also a great resource be familiar with for sharing with people outside the faith who have never really understood basic Christian beliefs.

Dug Down Deep has eleven chapters–eight of which are reflections on key Christian beliefs including the Doctrine of God, Scripture, the Person and Work of Christ, the Atonement and the Holy Spirit. Personal and narrative-driven, Dug Down Deep shares the questions, misconceptions and hang-ups Harris had what it’s meant to allow Scripture’s truth to reshape his thinking.

Other Resources about the Book:

• Read Chapter One
• A review of Dug Down Deep by Tim Challies
• Recommendations for further study on the topic of each chapter
• Videos about the book

Purchase a copy for yourself

• Paperback (Revised and updated May 2011)
• Hardcover
• Kindle Edition

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• What will heaven be like?
• What will we be like in heaven?

These questions and more like them are answered in this most helpful book by John MacArthur, The Glory of Heaven: The Truth about Heaven, Angels and Eternal Life

Description:

If you’re going to call it “home” for eternity, don’t you want to know what it’s like?

Our pictures of life in heaven cover the range from comical to curious, from mystical to fictitious–with maybe some biblical truth thrown in. For example: We know angels will be there. But thanks to TV, we think of them as being gorgeous, white-robed beings with enormous wings. We know we will be given new bodies, but books have convinced us that that means we will we end up with a set of wings ourselves. And cartoons, movies, and modern music have portrayed those who have gone to heaven as having full knowledge of what’s happening to their loved ones on earth.

But if heaven is in your future, a Hollywood scriptwriter’s interpretation or some artist’s rendering of it just won’t do. You need to know the truth, which, ironically, is far better than anything our creative minds can imagine.

The only One who knows the glorious truth about heaven is God. And the only place to find that truth is in His Word.

In this book, pastor John MacArthur takes you through those very Scriptures and opens your heart to the realities of heaven, angels, and eternal life. It’s a joyous study of every Christian’s future. A future that you can and should anticipate.

Come along with this best-selling author for an in-depth look at where you’ll spend eternity. Open up The Glory of Heaven and catch a glimpse of Home.

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How does God speak to me today?

How am I supposed to learn God’s will?

Gary Gilley faithfully takes us back to God’s Word for the answers to these questions and others.

This book is available to sign out from the Library book table in the church foyer.

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This book is now on the library book table for you to check out.

Stop Dating The Church will help you think carefully about the importance being a member of a local, Bible believing, Bible preaching church.

About the book:

We are a generation of consumers, independent and critical. We attend church, but we don’t want to settle down and truly invest ourselves. We’re not into commitment — we only want to date the church.

Is this what God wants for us?

Stop Dating the Church reminds us that faith was never meant to be a solo pursuit. The church is the place God grows us, encourages us, and uses us best. Loving Jesus Christ involves a passionate commitment to His church — around the world and down the street.

We can’t be apathetic. It’s time to fall in love with the family of God.

“Evangelical Christians have a good and appropriate emphasis on personal salvation. But that emphasis has not been balanced by the inherently corporate nature of the Christian life. Christians belong in churches – the only places where we can thrive and grow spiritually. In this book, Joshua Harris makes this case with wisdom, clarity, and graciousness.”
– Charles W. Colson

“Sadly, many Christians have allowed a consumer-mindset to shape their opinions of the church. Instead of asking what they can give or how they can serve, too many church-goers are only interested in what they can get. In light of this frightening trend, Josh Harris passionately and effectively calls his readers to understand the church’s fundamental importance. As part of God’s perfect plan for His people, the church deserves far more than the half-hearted commitment or apathetic neglect it so often receives. In fact, as Harris astutely observes, the Christian life can never be lived to its fullest apart from a genuine passion for the church. It’s time for believers to take the church seriously, which is why the message of this book is so essential.”
–Pastor John MacArthur

There’s more information as well as a short video from the author introducing the book here.

The following is from the book’s description at DesiringGod.com

What does the Bible teach about the miracle of rebirth?

In this book John Piper explores Jesus’ peculiar command, “You must be born again.”
When Jesus told Nicodemus, he had to be born again, this devout religious leader was unsure what Jesus meant. It seems nothing has changed. Today “born again Christians” fill churches that are ineffectual at best and sometimes even nonchristian.

The term “born again” has lost its meaning for many. Those claiming to be “born again” live lives that are indistinguishable from those who don’t; they sin the same, embrace injustice the same, do almost everything the same.

Being “born again” shouldn’t be defined by what people say they believe. It should be defined by Jesus.

“When Jesus said to Nicodemus, “You must be born again” (John 3:7), he was not sharing interesting and unimportant information. He was leading him to eternal life… If he does that for you (or if he already has), then you are (or you will be) truly, invincibly, finally alive.” –John Piper

You may also be interested in Tim Challies review here.

This book can also be downloaded as a free PDF for your computer or eReader at DesiringGod.com

Tim Challies has written a helpful review of this book available here.

Here’s his summary paragraph.

For someone who does not consider himself much of a worrier, I was surprised to find that this book offered me a lot to think about; it offered me a challenge to see where (not if) I worry. And as it offered the biblical diagnosis, it offered also the biblical cure. It showed me that worry, though usually a hidden sin and perhaps even a sin that most often seems harmless, is a sin that impacts my life and serves to distance me from the God who says time and time again, “Do not be afraid. Peace be with you. The Lord give you peace.” It showed me most clearly of all that the way I feel about fear and worry is a sure indication of what I believe about God.

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They’re here! Check out the photos from our 2011 VBS here!

Be sure to join us for VBS 2012

• August 6-10, 2012
• Each day from 9:30 to Noon
• For Children Age 4 — 6th grade
• Bible stories
• Fun songs
• Cool Crafts
• Great Games
• Super Snacks
• Prizes for each VBS student during Friday’s 11:30 closing program
• Hotdog roast after the closing program on Friday for the whole family
• and it’s all free

For photos from previous years of VBS click here.

For directions to the church click here.

2 Corinthians 9:10
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Each month we choose a passage of scripture to emphasize and encourage the memorization of God’s Word. This is where you should begin, not end, as you memorize and hide God’s Word in your heart. These are seeds for the increase of righteousness, growing you in Christ-likeness, helping you to increase your seeds for sowing to others the Word of God for His glory.

(Each of the following passages is quoted from the English Standard Version.)

Verses Concerning Salvation

January
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

February
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

March
1 Peter 1:3-4
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

April
Romans 10:9-10
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

May
John 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

June
Romans 1:16
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

July
John 1:12
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

August
John 3:16-17
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

September
2 Timothy 3:14-15
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

October
Galatians 4:4-5
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

November
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

December
Romans 5:8
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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