Malden Presbyterian Church

We have started our series on Revelation here at Malden Presbyterian Church. Join us on Sunday mornings to learn all about it. This Sunday (May 30) Samantha Pennington Evans and I will be out celebrating our anniversary. Be sure to attend and invite your friends to hear our guest speaker pastor Brandon Woolard.

Happy Birthday Marta Hampton. You are such a blessing to our church family.

In Matthew 24:3 when the Apostles ask Christ about His "coming" they are not asking Him, as we frequently assume, about His return. Why would they? He was already amongst them and the common expectation of the 1st century Jews knew nothing of a Messiah who would suffer, be resurrected, ascend, rule from the right hand of the Father, and return from there to judge the quick and the dead. Rather their question, "what shall be the sign of thy coming?" has everything to do with His beginning to rule with power and dominion. The Hebrew idea of "coming" connotes judgment, power, and glory. Christ emphatically answers in Matthew 24 as well as other places in the gospels that that generation will see him "come in clouds with power and glory."

Join us in person this Sunday December 20th for our Christmas service and fellowship meal. All are welcome. Sunday school at 10:00. Worship service at 11:00.

In light of recent announcements coming from the Vatican, keep the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith in mind. There is no other head of the Church, but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God -Westminster Confession of Faith

Credit: Pastor Joseph Spurgeon Did you know that John Calvin addressed his masterpiece "The Institutes of Christian Religion" to a civil magistrate with instructions that they should obey the law of God. Furthermore this was not unusual in church history. Many Christian writings have been addressed to civil magistrates. Almost all of the early Christian apologists directed their work towards the civil magistrates in order to both defend the faith from false accusations and ...to commend to the civil magistrates the faith for themselves. These Christians in church history were following a model laid out in scripture. The Apostle Paul who longed to go to Rome, the capital city of the Empire spent many times in court defending the faith and seeking the salvation of the magistrates. Christians are commanded to pray for their civil magistrates. And most likely the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts are addressed to a Roman official/magistrate. This of course is fulfillment of the great commission to disciple the nations and Old Testament prophesy that nations and kings would come to Christ. Pastors today who would refuse to address the civil magistrates or who would see the work of teaching civil magistrates as a distraction are not following in the tradition of the Church. The Church has a mission to proclaim the gospel to all creation and this most certainly includes the civil realm. The Bible doesn't make this neat and clean divide between religion and civil government and neither should we.

Just a reminder. Be sure to attend this Lord’s Day. Kent Harding of Sovereign Grace Reformed Church will be giving the message. You don’t want to miss it. Dereck

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Praise God from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures, here, below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Aaaaaaaaaamen. Thank you to everyone who helped record all the vocals and sent me videos!