Foundations News, April 1-7 and Covenant Chronicles

A few quick announcements and Danny's Covenant Chronicles:

 

SOCIAL: Thanks to all who came out to the Guys' Social on Monday - great time!

PRAYER: Kate Comini was scheduled for surgery today, we will hopefully have updates soon. Also, please continue to keep Sarah Squires' mother and the Glascow family in your prayers!

ALSO - Carter will be teaching again this Sunday, it's been great to have him with us again this quarter. A few ladies in the class have discussed getting tables together for SpringFling again this year. It is 4/17 at 11 a.m. and is $8 per person. If you would like to sit at one of the Foundations tables, let Cary know ASAP, it would be fun to get some time together and/or invite other friends/visitors to join us (Cary needs to let Victoria know tomorrow and pay upfront). So, please email cmurray1228@gmail.com by tomorrow (Thursday) at NOON if you would like to join in and you can just pay Cary your $8 directly either on 4/17, at Sunday School, or mail to 1735 Kensington Rd 35209.  Thanks!

 

 

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Subject: Covenant Chronicles

 

Holy, Holy, Holy WEEK!  We've got a few things that are fairly important in the life of the church this week!  I pray you and your family can participate in several of the services and fellowship times we have upcoming.  Oh and there is not Wednesday Night Activities tonight unless you are with the choirs.  

 

Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat write, “This language of inheritance, forgiveness and rescue from one empire in order to be freed in another kingdom harks back to the exodus narrative. It was Israel who was rescued from the imperial captivity of Egypt. It was Israel who received the promised land as an inheritance. And it was to rebellious Israel that God revealed himself as a God of forgiveness (see Ex. 32:7-34:10). Now, says Paul, we experience an exodus liberation in Jesus. . . . In postmodern terms, this liberation is not in order to enslave us in yet another regime that would violently impose it ideology on us . . . the kingdom of the beloved Son is a kingdom won not through violence imposed on others but through violence imposed upon the Son.

 

What's Happening:

 

1.  Holy Week Services (childcare provided for 5&under for all services)

                                Maundy Thursday Communion Service -  7 pm in the Sanctuary  (Dinner in the Fellowship Hall at 5:30 pm)

                                                                                                                                Luke 22 will guide us through the Last Supper

 

                                Good Friday Service – Noon in Sanctuary with Cross Creek Church, Cahaba Park, PCA & Christ Covenant

                                                                                                                                Chris Peters is preaching Isaiah 53.

 

                                Easter Sunrise Service – 6:15 am at Vulcan Park.  Service will be 30 minutes.  Did we mention we have a bagpiper? 

 

                                Pancake Breakfast – Mark Midyette will be flipping some flapjacks for the Covenant Family from 7 – 8:15 am.  

                                                                                                                                Donations for breakfast will go to support Restoration Academy

 

                                Easter Services – Our typical Sunday Service times of 8:30 and 11 am but we will have preparatory music beforehand.

                                                                                                                                John 20:1-18 is our text if you would like to pray through this week as we celebrate our risen Savior.

 

 

2.  Spring Fling – We hope that all of the women in the church received their invitation in the mail.  April 17th with Karen Edwards as 

                                                                                                                                The Keynote Speaker.  Please make reservations through Victoria vwilliams@covpres.com 

 

3.  The Spares – Join us for a fun family cook-out and concert with Jodi and The Spares.  They have led Covenant in worship before but will now 

                                                                                                                                Return for a concert outside in the new Youth Pavillion (The Pit) on Saturday night April 21.  Come and bring a friend.

 

4.  Children's Ministry Blog – Don't be hatin' on Mr. Dan.  He's as technologically savvy as they come…or at least he surrounds himself with 

                                                                                                                                People that are!  Check out and subscribe to the new blog:  www.covpreschildrensministry.blogspot.Com  for the

                                                                                                                                Latest on their ministry.

 

SCOTTY SMITH from Christ Community in Franklin, TN

A Prayer for Wednesday of Holy Week

A Prayer for Wrestling with the MAIN Question in Life

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think about the Christ?” Matt. 22:41-42

     Dear Lord Jesus, on this Wednesday of Holy Week, the question you directed to Pharisees, you still put before us. “What do you think about the Christ?” There’s no more important question on any table in any place at any time in any conversation in the history of the world. For what and how we think about you impacts everything in our lives.

     Jesus, continue to free us from every wrong notions we have about you—those generated in our fallen hearts; the ones that come to us from the father of lies, Satan; others which simply reveal the wrong and incomplete teaching we have received through the years; still others that show how imprisoned we still are to our unbelief.

     So what do I think about you today, Lord Jesus? What do I believe to be true of you in my heart? You are everlasting God, and I am a mere man. Throughout eternity, with the Father and Holy Spirit, you have enjoyed the passions and delights of life within the Trinity. I would despair if you were anything less than God, and I’m weary of trying to be more than a man.

     You are the Creator, Sustainer, and Restorer of all things—the things I can see, the things I don’t see and the things I cannot even imagine. You don’t just care about my soul; you care about everything you have made. You are making all things new, Lord Jesus, not all new things. Hallelujah! Your name is Redeemer!

     You are the second Adam—our substitute in life and in death. You lived a life of perfect obedience for us, and you exhausted God’s judgment that stood against us. By you, we have been completely forgiven, and in you, we have received your perfect righteousness. Staggering, astonishing, freeing!

     We are citizen-servants in your kingdom and your beloved bride in waiting. You are the reigning King and the returning Lord. One Day you will come back for us, and we will be made just as lovely and as loving as you. I believe, help my unbelief!

     I humbly stake my life and my death upon what you’ve done for us. Jesus, you are all of this and so very much more. Eternity will be an endless revelation of your glory and grace. Your beauty and bounty will confound us forever.

     But this Holy Week, what stuns me the most, is not the many glorious things I think about you; rather, it’s to realize you are always thinking about us, even about me. We are in your heart and on your mind all the time. You are always praying for us, Jesus, advocating for us before the Father.  You’re the One who knows us the best and loves us the most. With fresh gratitude and knee-buckling awe, we worship you. So very Amen we pray, in your gracious name and for your everlasting glory.