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Why We Should Clean-up Our Membership Rolls

Recently we gathered for our annual business meeting and received many great testimonies of God's faithfulness throughout the year while looking forward with great hope and anticipation of the upcoming new year. During the pastor's annual update, we announced that we would be "cleaning up" our church rolls and focusing on those who are not functionally participating in our...

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How We Address the Absent Member

Hebrews 10:24-2524 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Dear Brothers and Sisters of PBC, In this season of the life of our church we have been thinking about and discussing the importance of meaning...

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2023 Elders’ Report

As we come to the end of the Annual Meeting, I would like to read our 2023 Psalm of the Year: Psalm 8 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. [1] O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. [2] Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of yo...

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Pastor Blair’s Top Ten Books of 2023

Reviews can be found in previous blogs. Hamilton, Pauline. To A Different Drum. 10ofthose Publishing: Leyland, UK, 2023 Beale, G.K. D.A. Carson, Benjamin Gladd, and Andrew Naselli (eds.). Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Baker Academic: Grand Rapids, 2023. Ventura, Robin (Ed). A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689....

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What Pastor Blair Has Been Reading (October 2023 through December 2023)

Ascol, Thomas (ed.), Dear Timothy: Letters on Pastoral Ministry. Founders Press: Cape Coral, 2016. This is a collection of essays written in the form of letters to a fictional young minister ("Timothy") as he begins his first pastorate. The wisdom comes from a variety of well-respected Reformed ministers and scholars from the United States and International. Such names as...

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Our 20th Anniversary!

Next Sunday, October 29, we will be celebrating our 20th anniversary as a congregation. It falls on the choicest of days, as it is Reformation Sunday. We love celebrating these anniversaries as they are a homecoming to us. While everyone is invited, if you were a part of our initial work here at Providence, we would especially love to see you at one of the two events of th...

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What Pastor Blair Has Been Reading (July 2023 through September 2023)

Adams, Isaac. Talking About Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 2022. I started this book back in February during Black history month. I had to lay it aside as a bigger project interfered. But I resumed reading it this summer. This is a great book regarding race and much needed. Note the title- this is not a book about race- but a volume on...

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The Ugly Parts of the Scriptures

I recently went on record in my sermon three weeks ago, that I believe the Bible is the most wonderful book on the earth. It is supernaturally composed and can reveal to us not only our great God but also who we are as well (James 1:22-25). The construction of 66 books written over two millennia having a complete story from beginning to end and the fact that it still has r...

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Why K Groups?

If you think relationships are an essential part of healthy church life, and I hope you do, then small groups (K Groups) should also be important to you. They are actually crucial to the life of any healthy church. A lot of Christian discipleship deals with what you need to know, not who you need to be with. That is sad because if we get our relationships right, the infor...

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What Pastor Blair Has Been Reading (April 2023 through June 2023)

Akenson, Donald Harman. A Protestant in Purgatory: Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin. Archon Books: Hamden, CT, 1981. I have frequently come across Richard Whately's (1787-1863) name in my studies. He has been considered somewhat of an enigma in history as to what his purposes were when he became archbishop of Dublin for the Church of England. Many wonder if he was a ...

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