The Crown and Christian Parenting

The British monarchy seems to be all the rage.  PBS is in season 2 of Victoria.  There are two seasons of The Crown* available on Netflix.  Many of you men are left to watch the Olympics alone because your wife and daughter would rather binge watch these stories of royalty.

Well, in Season 1, Episode 7 of The Crown, we get a glimpse into the education that Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth received as a young girl.  The audience learns, even as she does, that her education is different, drastically different, from that of other pupils.  “Shouldn’t I know all of this too?” she asks as she thumbs through a stack of, what does appear to be, Algebra exam papers.

No other child in the entire kingdom received the same kind of training she did, not even her own sister, Margaret.

Slow Learners, Unite!

If I tell you something three times, you can bet that it's either important or I'm convinced you didn't hear me the first time and second times.

If I tell you something three times, you can...OK, I won't,

While you can accuse me of many things, being charismatic isn't one of them. And, yet, I'm convinced God is trying to tell me something. The last three sermons I've heard all traced the same theme.

Ministry Teams

Quick, what’s our mission?  Can you remember it?  “The whole…something?”  The mission of Grace Covenant Church is to proclaim the whole gospel for the whole person through the whole city to the whole world.

I know, that sounds like a tall order, perhaps even impossible.  Is it measurable?  Definable?

How will we know that we are accomplishing our mission?  Well, we have four goals – Worship, Growth in Grace, Fellowship and Service, and Evangelism and Missions.  While you could probably figure out what we mean by these four goals, eventually we’ll discuss each of them.  For now, however, I want to focus on Fellowship & Service.