TBNA Ice Cream Social

The Tatesbrook Neighborhood Association will be having their annual Ice Cream Social on June 21st in the church parking lot from 1:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon.

The TBNA will be providing more details about the ice cream and some special appearances from the city fire department and/or police department, but the church is in charge of games and some shelter for the hot sun for the ice cream.

So, Mike, dig out the rules for the running amoeba and we'll combine that with a little ultimate frisbee and basketball. If anyone has a small canopy for the ice cream and the servers, please contact Kevin.

This is a great opportunity for fun and fellowship with the community.

Christ in the Passover

In case you did not get a chance to see this great presentation in person here is the video in its entirety direct from Jews for Jesus (40 min).

Or if you would like you can download the video here.

E-votional

Happy Passover?

1 Cor 5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

You might be thinking "Happy Passover? Didn't we already celebrate Easter?" Well yeah but someone many years ago decided to separate the celebrations. Bright idea right? Well this Saturday at sundown begins the week long celebration of Passover (including the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of first fruits).

This was the feast that Jesus shared with His disciples that we call the Last Supper and it was in this Passover meal that He gave us the rite of communion. During the meal Jesus took the “middle matzoh” that was unleavened, striped and pierced, and He broke it saying to us that it represented His body which was broken for us (Luke 22:19). This body was given that our old self might be crucified and that we could be reconciled to God (Rom 5:10, Col 1:22). Then after the meal Christ took the third cup called the “Cup of Redemption” and said this is my blood (Luke 22:20). This blood was shed for the total forgiveness of our sins. That night Jesus was taken and the next morning, Passover day, He was sacrificed.

Jesus was our Passover Lamb (1 Cor 5:6-7) and He fulfilled the feast of Passover on the actual day of the feast. Passover was a type or a picture of the final deliverance God had promised for the people of Israel and indeed for the whole world when He would offer His Son as the ultimate sacrifice. Each person need only apply the Blood of this Lamb to the doorposts of his their hearts and they will be delivered from bondage to sin and spiritual death.

Rejoice dear saint that the final sacrifice has been made and that you are now completely free from sin and death. Celebrate our Passover and walk in the truth.

Check out this video explaining the matzoh by Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum.

E-votional

Justification and Registration

by Preston Gillham

A friend of mine had an imported car he hoped to get registered here in the U.S. He was told that while he might be able to get license plates, he'd never be able to legally drive the car since it didn't fundamentally meet American safety standards.

Most folks understand that Christ's death on the cross paid the price for our sins. But like my friend's imported car, there was something fundamentally wrong. We had to be made right in Christ before we would be legally OK with God.

Our justification in Christ not only takes care of our sins, it also transforms the sinner and gives us a new identity. It's as if my buddy's car could be completely recreated as an American model. The fact that your sins are forgiven because of Christ is a wonderful thing. But let's not forget, we are completely new models—new creations—in Him.

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