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Listen to A Church Covenant Song
Church covenants help to center a congregation on the biblical principles that every church member should uphold. Here is a song with the best elements that many church covenants contain. Click Here to Listen
David Brainerd, "A Pure and Fervent Flame of Love to God"
Each year the elders at our church recommend that families read a missionary biography. For 2008, our recommendation was the biography of David Brainerd compiled by Jonathan Edwards.
Jonathan Edwards captures the essence of why it was important that we read Brainerd’s biography,
“that we may be in like manner faithful in our work; that we may be filled with the same spirit, animated with the like pure and fervent flame of love to God, and the like earnest concern to advance the kingdom and glory of our Lord and Master, and the prosperity of Zion!”
Edwards further comments on his focus on the glory of God,
'Oh that the things that...
NCFIC Year in Review
In 2008, we crisscrossed America proclaiming the Sufficiency of Scripture for Church and Family Life. Our objective was to visit the regions where there are churches that identify with the NCFIC and meet with church leaders and families.
The NCFIC just completed it’s last 2008 conference, Dec 12-13 in Aiken SC.
This was preceded by eight Regional Leadership Summit’s on Pastoral Care in Washington, Missouri, Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire and Delaware;
We conducted two Regional NCFIC Conferences in Indiana and North Carolina
We held three Leadership Development Conferences on Expository Preaching, Biblical Fatherhood and Church Planting in Wake Forest.
We did our first ever, Puritan Family...
R. Kent Hughes - Beloved Expositor
My appreciation runs high for my preaching professor in seminary - R. Kent Hughes. With all his heart he appealed to us to preach the Word using the expository method. That was 28 years ago. Now, a book on preaching has been dedicated to him: Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching: In Honor of R. Kent Hughes
The exposition of scripture was the focus of his life for over forty years. This book celebrates this legacy by bringing together fifteen of his friends to write about the things he loved so much. The Editor, Leland Ryken has included an article by D.A. Carson who...
My Parents, Bill and Mary Brown Celebrate 61 Years of Marriage Today
As the eldest son, I am perhaps one of the supreme authorities on this marriage since I have had the closest and longest inside view of almost anyone alive. As a long term observer, I must say that this has been a sweet marriage. Some of the more junior observers of this marriage say:
Grandson David says: “It is a blessing to watch the example of their interactions."
Granddaughter Blair says: "I want a marriage like that."
Granddaughter Claudia says: "We have had the benefit of 61 years of a marriage on the right path - their lives have been such a good example to me."
Daughter in-law Deborah...
2009 Calendar Events for the National Center for Family Integrated Churches
February 13-14 "Our Marriages and The Marriages of our Son’s and Daughters," Wake Forest, NC
March 14-15 Reforming Church and Family | Unpacking Family Integrated Church Life - Wake Forest
September 18-19 Church Planters Symposium - Anderson Indiana
October 24-25 Reforming Church and Family | Unpacking Family Integrated Church Life - Wake Forest
December 10-12 National NCFIC Conference – The Sufficiency of Scripture for Church and Home Life
For more information email David Brown: Dbrown@NCFIC.org
