Three Personal God

You were made in the likeness of a relational God. You were created in the image of a God who exists eternally in a tri-unity of perfect relationship: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That’s why friendships matter and betrayal hurts. That’s why we crave connection and genuine love. The doctrine of the Trinity (“One God in three persons”) is not some abstract theological concept. On the contrary, the Trinity has everything to do with what makes us human. 

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Yours for Christ, 

Pastor Steve

steve@clpc.org 

Reversing Babel

One way of understanding the story of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-21) is that it reverses Babel (Genesis 11.) The Babel story was about exclusion (building a fortress to keep others out) but the story of Pentecost is about inclusion (all the nations of the earth hear the message of God’s salvation.) The Babel story was about making a name for itself (read Genesis 11:4!) but the Pentecost story is about making a name for Jesus. The Babel story was about a place, but the Pentecost story is about a people (cf. Acts 2:42-47.) 

Wanna know more about how you and I can live the Pentecost story? Listen to the full message here or watch the entire worship service on our YouTube channel.

Yours for Christ, 

Pastor Steve

steve@clpc.org

What We Know

As the writer closes 1 John, he wants his readers to know they have eternal life: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.” (1 John 5:13) Eternal life is not some far off distant possibility that only happens when we die. Eternal life is a present reality for those in God’s kingdom. The late Dallas Willard was so confident of this reality that he once remarked, “I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.” (“Dallas Willard, a Man for Another ‘Time Zone,’ Christianity Today, May 8, 2013). For this reason, 1 John closes with the admonition to “keep yourselves from idols.” (1 John 5:21) John longs for his community to settle for nothing less than the wide-open goodness of God’s eternal life in Christ. 

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Yours for Christ, 

Pastor Steve

steve@clpc.org