22 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Events
This Lord’s Day February 26th at 2PM All Saints Reformed Church will have a joint psalm sing with Los Angeles Reformed Presbyterian Church (Map below) and a 3PM worship service with Dr. Joel Beeke preaching. Come out to L.A. and enjoy this special time of fellowship and Christian worship.
15 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Uncategorized
All Saints and visitors,
As of Sunday February 26, 2012, we will be holding our worship services at Laurel Elementary School in Brea, CA (See below for address and map). Until then we will continue to meet at Brea Olinda High School as has been our custom.
As a reminder, our Worship & Communion Service begins at 9:00am and Catechism at 10:45am.
Please make all necessary arrangements to meet us there to worship our Lord with a grateful attitude.
200 South Flower Avenue, Brea, California
12 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Sermons
Tags
consolation, Election, ephesians 1, Grace, holy spirit, illumination, inheritance, prayer, resurrection, resurrection of the dead, spiritual forces
Paul’s prayer for illumination for the Ephesians contains a very surprising and thrilling request as he prayed that the Ephesians would come to know God’s great power at work in them. Five different words are used to unpack the dimensions of God’s power operative in believers, while in verse 20 a case from history, Christ’s resurrection and heavenly exaltation, are cited as tangible examples of just what kind of enormous things this power can accomplish. Believers, armed with a sense of awareness about this power, will have consolation to know that not only will they arrive at the promised and hoped for heavenly inheritance but also that their earthly struggles against spiritual forces of darkness will not end in failure.
05 Sunday Feb 2012
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prayer, ephesians 1, holy spirit, spiritual illumination, biblical truth, revelation, illumination
Some people think that a mastery of the lexical, grammatical, and literary details of a passage always leads to a right understanding of Scripture. Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians, that they might receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the clear knowledge of God, makes it clear that we cannot understand Scripture adequately without the illumination of the Holy Spirit. This prayer of Paul means that Christians cannot be assured of adequate understanding of Biblical truth apart from seeking the grace of spiritual illumination through prayer.
