Friday, June 29, 2012

Friday, June 15, 2012


There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me. There is, certainly, great cause for humility in the thought that He sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow-men do not see (and am I glad!), and that He sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He want me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose.

"Knowing God" Reader's Guide - Chapter 3

Here's the study guide for chapter 3 of Packer's Knowing God. Questions - Chapter 3
What is one point from the chapter that you hope to remember?

Sneak Peak of our June 17, 2012 Worship Service

Here's what's happening this Sunday at New City Church.... June 17, 2012 Worship Service

Saturday, June 9, 2012

"Knowing God" Reader's Guide - Chapter 2

And here's the study guide for chapter 2 of "Knowing God." Questions - Chapter 2

How did you reading go? Leave comments below as to what you found helpful or challenging.

"Knowing God" Reader's Guide - Chapter 1

Here's the study guide for chapter 1 of "Knowing God." Questions - Chapter 1 So, leave a post below on why you decided to sign up to read along with us this summer. What are you hoping to gain by reading this book?

Friday, June 8, 2012

Loving this world...


"Because we know the natural level also is God's creation, we cannot cease to fight against the death which mars it, as against all those other blemishes upon it, against pain and poverty, barbarism and ignorance. Because we love something else more than this world we love even this world better than those who know no other."

 ~ CS Lewis, God in the Dock

Sneak Peek of the June 10, 2012 Worship Service

June 10, 2012 Worship Service

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Online Summer Book Club

Have you signed up to join the Online Summer Book Club with New City Church yet?

 
Click here for more info & to join in reading J.I. Packer's classic work, Knowing God. Packer writes,
"Our aim in studying...must be to know God Himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are. As He is the subject of our study, and our helper in it, so He must Himself be the end of it. We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God. It was for this purpose that revelation was given, and it is to this use the we must put it."
Begins next week (Sunday, June 10!). Here's the schedule you can download... Knowing God Reading Schedule