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Cultivating the Christian Family

Speaker: Douglas Wilson

Families are a gift from God, but as a living gift from God, they are not static. Families are alive; they grow. This means that husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, need to understand the nature of the journey they have undertaken. Like a good story, families have a beginning, a middle, and an end. From the point of the wedding to the fiftieth anniversary, there are many different milestones, and it is part of God’s grace to us that we may learn how to behave throughout the course of our lives together. This conference is intended to provide a measure of help to that end.

Conference Schedule:

Friday, April 12
Session #1: “Healthy Marriage, Healthy Family”, 6:30 PM

Saturday, April 13
Session #2: “How Maturity Works”, 9:00-10 AM

Break: 10:00-10:30

Session #3:”Courtship Concerns”, 10:30-11:30 AM

Musical Event: Ron Block and Friends
and Contra Dancing, 3:00-5:30 PM

Sunday, April 14
Q&A During SS, 9:45 AM

Worship, 11 AM
Sermon: “A True Culture of Life”

Fellowship Meal

Conference registration is officially closed. Please call (615) 438-3109 to see if there is any available seating.

Conference Registration Form

Maundy Thursday Agape Feast – 5:45 PM in the fellowship hall.

Good Friday Service of Darkness – 6:30 PM in the sanctuary.

April 20, 21 and 22

Audio for Download LINK

Sessions 1-4

Please join us for an evening of fellowship and fun as we examine the deep theological significance of pancakes…by eating a lot of them!

When: February 17, 2015. 6:00-8:00 PM

Where: The Fellowship Hall at the church.

Shrove Tuesday is an 800+ year old tradition in English speaking churches. It marks the end of the festive season of Epiphany and the beginning of the more somber, solemn season of Lent. To wrap up Epiphany, people would have a pancake dinner together, using eggs and syrup, which they would be giving up for Lent. It was also a time to begin confessing (“shriving” in Old English) sin and focusing on repentance.

Other national cultures produced different pre-Lenten customs (e.g., French Mardi Gras), but as an English speaking church that traces its historical roots back to through the English Reformation, a Shrove Tuesday celebration makes perfect sense for St. Mark.

Christmas Eve • 7:00 p.m.

St. Mark Reformed Church invites you to join us in the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior with our annual Lessons and Carols service. This service is a special time weaving Bible readings with traditional Advent and Christmas music.

With this service we enter more fully, liturgically, and experientially into the story of the coming of the Son of God in human flesh to redeem us from the curse of sin and death. The readings and songs move from promise to fulfillment, from prophecy to realization, from type and shadow to reality.

The service is at our normal location of worship
1301 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN
(Brentwood First Presbyterian Church Building)

Sunday, October 23 • 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM

1301 Franklin Road, Brentwood

on the grounds of Brentwood First Presbyterian Church

Activities and Schedule

Live Music with Ron Block (of Union Station)
Concert starts at 5:00 PM

Food: BBQ, Hot Dogs and Drinks
Will be served until 5:00 pm
(Sign up below for free food vouchers)

Pumpkin Carving Contest
Winner chosen at 4:30 PM
(You will need to bring your own pumpkin and carve it on site to be eligible for the contest. )

Arts & Crafts
Until dusk

Bounce Attractions
Until dusk

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We are rejoicing in the wonderful gift that Evangeline has been and is to us. It has been an unforgettable year.

Mission: Its Meaning and Manifestation

Speaker: Pastor Rich Lusk

Listen to Pastors Thacker and Lusk discuss the upcoming conference HERE

Conference Schedule

Friday, May 13, 2011 – 7:00 PM *
“Mission and the Home”

Sometimes we think the purpose of the church is to meet the Spiritual needs of the family. But what if actually it’s the other way around, and the family is called to serve the mission of the church? How do we use our family resources, our homes, our time, and our money, to further the mission of the church in the world? How do we train our children to play their part in this mission? Can we find a happy balance between protecting them from the world, while still sending them into the world? How can our families be more outward facing, embracing our communities and neighborhoods in the love and truth of the gospel?

Saturday, May 14, 2011 – 9:30 AM *
“Mission and the Marketplace”

What’s the purpose of work? Personal fulfillment? A paycheck? Status and prestige? God calls us to work for a myriad of reasons, but among them is the furthering of the Great Commission. But this doesn’t mean doing personal evangelism on company time. Instead it means learning to do business as a form of mission, using entrepreneurial skills and business resources to serve the good of others. It means learning to do our work in a way that ministers to the common good, recognizing God uses our daily work as a way of blessing the world and teaching us about our mutual dependence on one another. Work is not just work; through our work, God includes us in his global mission of renewing the world. Doing our work with excellence can become a way of loving God and neighbor.

2nd Saturday Session – 11:00 AM
“Mission and the Poor“

Why are some people poor? Why is poverty so hard to deal with? Can we safely ignore the poor? Should we feel guilty for not doing more to help the poor? And how can we really help them in a way that doesn’t just subsidize all the wrong things? Caring for the poor is a biblical priority, but one that the church in our age has a hard time embracing. What is our biblical burden, how do we carry it out, and how does this mercy work relate to the proclamation of the gospel?

Sunday, May 15, 2011 – 10:00 AM (Lord’s Day Worship)
“Mission and the Gospel”

What is God up to in the world? Where is God working and how? In what ways can we join in God’s work? The gospel not only draws us into God’s presence to receive his blessing; it also sends us out to be a blessing the world. Every Christian is called to be a missionary in some form or fashion. But when we learn to live out the mission of the gospel, we find the Christian life is never boring. If we embrace this mission fully, we’re bound to have some great stories to tell!

The Significance of Song & Singing

Speaker: James B. Jordan

In his Theses on Worship, James Jordan writes, “Praise…dictates something about our music….”

How important is music to the life of the Church? Does God give us any specifics about what to sing? What does the history of the Church teach us about music? Is style of music simply a matter of taste? If you have ever asked yourself these or similar questions, then please join us for the “Living as the Church Conference: The Significance of Song & Singing.” James Jordan will be answering questions such as these, while leading us to a deeper understanding of a biblical theology of music.

Audio from the conference is available HERE

Topics

Session #1: Friday, April 16 – 7:00-8:00 PM
Wine, Women, and Song: Being a Discourse on the Enemy’s Attempts to Destroy the Three Gifts of the New Creation

Session #2: Saturday, April 17 – 9:30-10:30 AM
The Dancing Church: Being an Exploration of the Nature of the Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation

10:30-11:00 AM Break

Session #3: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Can YOU Dig It? Being a Challenge to the Conference to Toughen Up and Sing Right

Lord’s Day Worship: Sunday, April 18 10 AM – 11:30 AM
Inhabiting the Praises of Israel: One Reason Why God Is So Often Absent from the Church Today

JAMES B. JORDAN graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Comparative Literature. After a tour in the US Air Force, Mr. Jordan attended Reformed Theological Seminary (Jackson, Mississippi) and Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), graduating with a Th.M. in Systematic Theology. Mr. Jordan was awarded an honorary D.Litt. degree from the Central School of Religion (England). Since the late 1980s Mr. Jordan has been the director of Biblical Horizons, now located in Niceville, Florida. Mr. Jordan is the author of numerous books, most prominently Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World, and many scholarly monographs and short essays.