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Thank you for visiting Chattanooga Valley PCA’s website. Like the people who make up this congregation of God’s Worldwide People, the website is a fumbling “work-in-progress.” Our prayer is that, even so, our Lord will be pleased to use it as a Blessing of his Grace in your life for the display of his Glory [...]
The “Good Life” of the Lord in Jesus Christ is “fleshed out” among his people in the “Good Work” of living and working together. As Jesus told us, it is as the world sees God’s people living and working (wrestling, fighting; repenting and forgiving) together according to the Truth of God’s Love in Christ that [...]
Writing to encourage and challenge his readers, James infamously (to our ears) writes, “Count it all joy, my brothers, as you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”
Paul hints [...]
In reflecting on Psalm 127, Eugene Peterson writes:
The main difference between Christians and others is that we take God seriously and they do not. We really do believe that he is the central reality of all existence. … Our work goes wrong when we lose touch with the God who works ‘his salvation in [...]
The Psalmist declares, “The Lord reigns!” And for this reason, as though it is self-explanatory, he therefore exhorts us, “Let the earth rejoice; let the many coast lands be glad!” Why? Why would the Lord’s reign move us necessarily to rejoice and be glad? Because by the reign of the Lord [...]
As I (Albert) read the psalm below this week, my first thought was HOW EXCITING is the God we serve? My second thought was, “we Murder to dissect.” There are portions of scripture that need no explanation–taken as they are, they prepare us and teach us to worship.
May the wonder of our Lord [...]
Writing to Christians, the so-called “Hebrews,” whose lives had caused them to be dispersed among the world and who were feeling pressed and tried, some wondering what it was all about and wanting to give it up, their pastor begins:
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, [the transcendant, creator, holy] God spoke to [...]
The people of God, newly redeemed, stood in slack-jawed, knee-quaking silence as the voice of God thundered from Mt. Sinai. Behind them lay the Red Sea, now calm after having provided the Israelites safe passage and then immediately and violently swallowing the Egyptian army. Who was this who had defeated the world’s strongest [...]
Isaiah points God’s people to a day when “It shall come to pass … that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of mountains, … and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain [...]