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Some weeks back we posted our preaching schedule for the Samuel-Kings sermon series. After a couple sermons of preaching some massive texts, we decided to keep our sermons to a single chapter and to cut the series after 2 Samuel. So, here is the new preaching schedule:

Dave Burnett serves us as our Deacon of Benevolence. In this post he invites us into that role and explains how he does it. As elders we have so appreciated his service, and we have seen time again that his wisdom and compassion bring great blessing to others.

A few weeks ago we had our 2013 Family Meeting, a time to annually come together and think about the past year and the year ahead. This year we felt particularly led to focus on the year ahead. God is doing great things in our church, and we wanted to cast vision along those lines.

Money Magazine has ranked Apex, North Carolina #9 (out of 50) in its list of the best small towns to live in. Here's what they said about our town of 40,000 people:

Tom Heck, who serves in our high school ministry, sent this note to the group today. He mentions the new video curriculum they're using and gives a great encouragement to our young adults (and the rest of us!)

As we've mentioned over the last few weeks, we have several book and Bible studies available for our ladies to enjoy together this fall. 

Over the last couple days we've examined this phrase "gospel-centered" and seen that it rightly reminds us to keep the good news about Jesus Christ at the center of our teaching, discipleship, and life with the Lord. But there is something else we need to think about in this discussion: Is the gospel we have placed at the center complete? Are we thinking of the gospel in large enough terms? Or are we taking only a part of it and treating it like the whole?

Okay, so in our last post we looked at how the phrase "gospel-centered" gets used frequently these days. It is a wonderful phrase, and because of that we want to understand it and use it intentionally.

The phrase "gospel-centered" has become an adjective that can get put in front of about everything that relates to the Christian life....But we need to take a step back from all of this gospel-centeredness and ask a basic question, What is the good news—the "gospel"—anyway?

Loving Our Neighbor, the third part in our vision statement, is something I have been encouraged to see our church grow in over the years....we have many members whose heart for the poor, the suffering, and the lost is an encouragement and an inspiration, like Jim Bastic.