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Hear the words of Tim Stafford:

“The first question we ask someone after learning his name is, “What do you do?”  In getting to know God, then, we must ask that question.  He may hide his face, but he has not hidden his work.

   “What does God do?  He makes flowers and mountains and starry nights, the severity of the desert and the lushness of the forest meadow.  In these he reveals himself as an artist of incomparable imagination.  I have sometimes wondered: What if we had never seen a tree until, one day, someone presented one in the Museum of Modern Art?  Would it not be a work of sculpture so splendid that all the other sculptors would put down their tools and come to stare?  But that is only the beginning of the exhibition; next comes a whale, and after that a stone, and after that a star, and after that a seed, and after that….”

Source: Tim Stafford, Knowing the Face of God.  Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1996: p. 102.

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This Sunday, May 24, Josue Raimundo, who serves as the pastor of Iglesia Biblica de la Gracia, plans to share the Word with the BridgeWay242 family.  Josue will continue our month-long sermon series on the subject of God’s Faithful Provision, and he has been asked to speak about how the truth of God’s faithful provision addresses the human heart’s tendency to grumble and complain.

Josue hails from the Dominican Republic.  He has been sought after to speak or teach in both English- and Spanish-language settings.  His teaching reaches across generations and cultures, with depth of insight and a great love and respect for the Word of God.  He teaches theology, Bible survey and in-depth studies of books of the Bible.  Josue has taught about family-life issues and theology, both in Northern Virginia and other US states, as well as in foreign countries.  Josue presently teaches and disciples about ten men in Arlington.  

Come and be blessed by the faithful proclamation of God’s holy word!

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What is at the heart of a deep and stable spiritual life?  Consider the words of Don Carson:

“There is no deep and stable spirituality that does not acknowledge what an utterly profound privilege it is to know God and be reconciled to him by the crucified Messiah.”

Source: D. A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from 1 Corinthians, p. 52.

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Hear the words of Malcolm Muggeridge:

“The world’s way of responding to intimations of decay is to engage equally in idiot hopes and idiot despair.  On the one hand some new policy or discovery is confidently expected to put everything to rights: a new fuel, a new drug, detente, world government.  On the other, some disaster is as confidently expected to prove our undoing.  Capitalism will break down.  Fuel will run out.  Plutonium will lay us low.  Atomic waste will kill us off.  Overpopulation will suffocate us, or alternatively, a declining birth rate will put us more surely at the mercy of our enemies.

   “In Christian terms, such hopes and fears are equally beside the point.  As Christians we know that here we have no continuing city, that crowns roll in the dust and every earthly kingdom must sometime flounder, whereas we acknowledge a king men did not crown and cannot dethrone, as we are citizens of a city of God they did not build and cannot destroy.”

Source: Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom.  Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1980: p. 52.

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