A Warning on Diluted Religion | Colossians 2:16-23

. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been looking at the signs of Jesus as presented to us in John’s Gospel. Today begins our examination of Christ’s “I am” statements. We’ll be looking at these through the Easter season. And as with Christ’s miracles, these “I am” statements reveal something about Jesus—not simply as…

I’m thankful we observe the Christian calendar at TCC. It provides us a framework for worship and helps us to mark time not primarily by days and months but according to the person and work of Jesus Christ. Today is Ascension Sunday, which is the 1st Sunday following Ascension Day (which was last Thursday). So,…

We’ve spent these summer months looking at habits of grace found in both the OT/NT: things like hospitality and confession, kindness and supplication, lament and hope, sacraments and fellowship.  And as we’ve said from the very beginning of this series, not one of these habits is to be understood as an onerous task rooted in…

Notes

This summer we’ve been discussing “Habits of Grace.” Habits that should be alive and well in the Christian’s life because they’ve drunk deeply from God’s fountain of grace and they’re being sustained by it. We’ve discussed personal habits (scripture, sabbath and supplication). And corporate habits (mission & forgiveness). Today we’ll add to the corporate list…

Now, as is our custom here at Tampa Covenant, we are takingthe summer months to explore God’s grace in various passages in the OldTestament. This year we are looking at what we call the “habits of grace.”These habits are not practices that we need in order to receive God’s graceand love, but instead habits that…