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We meet Sunday's at 1230 Rossview Road (click for map) at 9:30am for Sunday School and 10:45am for Worship Service.
Map to church. From Route 24 take Exit 8 and go west. The church is about one mile on the left side of the road across from Rossview High School.
Sunday Fellowship Lunches – first Sunday of each month, immediately after the worship.  “Potluck” style.
Ladies Bible Study (Wednesdays, 6/25 – 7/30 at the Rossview House) – will be studying John Calvin:  Sovereign Hope (Christian Classics Bible Studies).  Call ahead for childcare.

 

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Series Title Subject Verse Description Date Sermon PDF
Acts Becoming Real Becoming Real Acts 25:23-26:32 Ache of being stretched thin 4/17/2005
Acts Being Too Easily Pleased Embrace Gospel Message Acts 24:1-27 Temptation to put Christ off (and danger) 3/13/2005
Acts Called to Witness God Works in Hearts Acts 21:37-22:22 Not sure what witnessing really means 2/20/2005
Acts God’s Provision into and through Hard Times Entrusting Ourselves to Him Acts 21:1-16 Man-centered expectations of God’s ways of providing 11/9/2004
Acts His Control and Our Courage Jesus In Control Acts 22:23-23:11 Anxious for what’s to come because of what we’ve seen thus far 2/27/2005
Acts Life in the Pasture: The Sheep Follow His Lead Acts 20:17-38 Slow to see His care 11/16/2004
Acts Life in the Pasture: The Wolves Wolves in the Flock Acts 20:13-38 Unawareness of the danger of wolves 11/30/2004
Acts No God But God God Alone Our Help Acts 25:1-22 Trusting too much in others to help 4/10/2005
Acts Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector Into His Presence Luke 18:9-14 In coming before God, we trust in our righteousness 11/23/2004
Acts Persevering Distressing Circumstances Acts 21:27-22:21 Confusion and dismay in the storm 2/6/2005
Acts Providence of God God's Care in All Things Acts 28:1-16 Our failure to appreciate God’s providential ordering 5/8/2005
Acts Purposes of God Rest We Seek Acts 23:12-35 Fear for lack of control of circumstances 4/22/2005
Acts Relections on a Stormy Voyage God's Sovereign Control Acts 27 Pride and presumption with knowledge 10/7/2004
Acts Source of Persuasion Complexities in becoming a Christian Acts 28:17-31 Lack of clarity in understanding why we are where we are 5/15/2005
Acts When the Difficulties Are People Difficult People Acts 21:17-26 Confusion as to how to deal with interpersonal difficulty 1/30/2005
Amos A Spiritual Plague – Pride Pride Amos 6:1-14 Reality of the struggle with pridev 11/13/2005
Amos Far as the Curse Is Found Struggle of Our Days Amos 9:11-15 Loss of strength, need for hope 2/26/2006
Amos God Has Spoken. Now What? Word Reveald Amos 3:3-8 A casual estimation of the Scriptures > indifference to the Scriptures 9/25/2005
Amos God’s Demand for What Is Real Must Be Real Amos 7:7-9 The problem of hypocrisy 1/8/2006
Amos Going to Church and Going to Hell Not Complacent Amos 9:1-10 Damning complacency 2/19/2006
Amos It Matters Not Lord Calls Us to What Matters Amos 1:1 Need to undo our ideas of strength/weakness 7/31/2005
Amos Lessons from a Funeral Seek Him Amos 5:1-17 The need to be shaken out of our complacency 10/16/2005
Amos Lion's Roar Against His People God's Very Deep Love for Us Amost 2:4-3:2 Failure to appreciate how very deep God’s love is for us 8/28/2005
Amos Lion's Roar Against the Nation Sins of Our Age Amos 1:2-2:3 Failure to see how God regards the sins of those around us 8/7/2005
Amos Repentance: God's Call to Our Need Repentance Amos 4:1-13 Our assumption that everything’s fine 10/9/2005
Amos Troublesome Signs Object of Worship Amos 8:1-10 Question as to spiritual diagnostics 1/29/2006
Amos What It Is to Pray Relationship Initiated by the Lord Amos 7:1-6 Lost and untaken opportunity 11/30/2005
Amos Worship That Is Pleasing to God God is Focus of Worship Amos 5:18-27 Irreverence > presumption 10/23/2005
Amos Yielding to the World Word Amos 7:10-17 Our struggle with authority – even God’s Word over our lives 1/15/2006
Biography John Calvin on the Spiritual Life John Calvin
Assumption we have nothing to learn from John Calvin 10/30/2005
Biography What Does It Mean To Have a Hero? Heroes in our Life Philippians 3:17 Confusion as to the place of heroes in our lives 1/14/2007
Call to Community Consider One Another What We Have in Christ Hebrews 10:19-25 Aimlessness to our days 9/2/2007
Call to Community Pattern of Jesus Vibrant Community Psalm 133 Skepticism regarding our need for community 8/12/2007
Call to Community Resistance We Face Resistance Matthew 5:13-16 Naiveté in the pursuit of community – it won’t come naturally 8/19/2007
Christmas Descendant of Eve Discouragement, Christmas Genesis 3:15 Discouragement at Christmas 12/9/2007
Christmas Everlasting Father Everlasting Father Isaiah 9:6 Longing for something more lasting than the celebration 12/19/2004
Christmas Jesus: A Prophet Like Moses Will of God Deuteronomy 18:15 Longing to know the will of God 12/16/2007
Christmas King Like David Christmas, Helplessness Isaiah 9:6-7 Our weakness and helplessness > need of One to rule and unite 10/21/2007
Christmas Mighty God Mighty God Isaiah 9:6 Troubles and problems > overwhelmed 12/5/2004
Christmas Peace He Brings Peace of Christ Luke 2:14 Little appreciation for the peace Jesus brings 12/17/2006
Christmas Peace with God Jesus Brought Peace Romans 5:1-2 Longing for peace with God 12/24/2006
Christmas Perfect Place Incarnation Matthew 2:1-12 Confusion over “the perfect gift” 12/4/2005
Christmas Perfect Time Not Slaves But Sons Galatians 4:1-7 Need to consider (examine) this salvation carefully 12/11/2005
Christmas Priest Like Melchizedek Christmas, Guilt Hebrews 7:11-28 Problem of Guilt 12/23/2007
Christmas Prince of Peace Prince of Peace Isaiah 9:6 Longing for the restoration of “shalom” 12/26/2004
Christmas Prophet Like Moses Christmas, Will of God Deuteronomy 18:15 Longing to know the Will of God 12/16/2007
Christmas Wonderful Counselor Wonderful Counselor Isaiah 9:6 Stressed because we don’t really see who this Child is 12/12/2004
CPC Vision For Such A Time As This God's Purpose for Us Esther 4:14 Not pursuing the purpose God has for us 9/17/2006
CPC Vision Grounded in God's Word Nature of the Scripture 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Misunderstanding re. inspiration > low view of Scripture 10/15/2006
CPC Vision Growing in Community God's Work of Renewal Ephesians 4:1-16 Lack of connection one to another 10/29/2006
CPC Vision Increasingly Gripped by His Grace Lives Expression of Gratitude Ephesians 2:1-10 Mistaken motivesv 10/22/2006
CPC Vision Our Chief End and All Lesser Choices Enjoying God Psalm 23 Directionless living 10/1/2006
CPC Vision Worshipping Body of Believers Worship Malachi 1:6-14 Confusion as to who worship is for 10/8/2006
Deacons Calling Gospel Ministry Acts 6:1-7 The tendency to downplay the necessity of the ministry of deeds 7/16/2006
Deacons Qualification Deacons 1 Timothy 3:8-13 Lowering standards 7/23/2006
Easter Blessed Is the King His Rule Luke 19:28-48 Not knowing our King 4/9/2006
Easter Death Abolished Understand Death 2 Timothy 1:10 Universal need to rightly understand death 4/15/2007
Easter Death of the King Jesus' Death Luke 22:19-20 Confusion about the meaning of Jesus’ death 4/1/2007
Easter Easter Prayer Significance of What God has Done Ephesians 1:15-23 We don’t know whose and who we are > tentativeness 3/27/2005
Easter Great Expectations Flawed Expectations Matthew 21:1-11 Misplaced expectations as to what Christ will do 3/20/2005
Easter Living for the King Need for Meaning Romans 11:36 Need for meaning, direction, and purpose 3/16/2008
Easter Living Out the Gospel What We Have Hebrews 10:19-25 Not realizing what we have. 4/29/2007
Easter Mary Magdalene: The True Story DaVinci Code John 20:1-18 Trading in the solid hope of the gospel for cheap allurements 4/30/2006
Easter Real Living Presence of Christ Relevance of the Resurrection John 20:10-18 Confusion regarding the relevance of the resurrection 4/8/2007
Easter Seeing Ourselves as Pardoned – Reflections on Barabbas Great Exchange Mark 15:1-15 Little appreciation of the freedom we have in Christ 4/3/2005
Easter Truest Story Ever Told Reality of Resurrection 1 Corinthians 15:1-28 Shaken view of resurrection > shaken hope 4/16/2006
Finances Giving of the Rich Rich by God's Grace 2 Corinthians 8:1-9 Not recognizing and living out the riches we have in Christ 9/10/2006
Finances Honoring the LORD, Believing His Promises Stewardship Proverbs 3:9-10 The difficulty we have in really trusting the God we serve 5/7/2006
Fruits of Spirit Faithfulness Faithfulness Galatians 5:22-23 Absence of and hunger for “faithfulness” in this world and in our lives 11/11/2007
Fruits of Spirit Gentleness Gentleness Galatians 5:22-23 Confusion about and longing for genuine gentleness 11/18/2007
Fruits of Spirit Goodness Goodness Galatians 5:22-23 The longing for and struggle to be “good.” 10/21/2007
Fruits of Spirit Joy Joy Galatians 5:22-23 Confusion as to what joy is and how it is possible 9/16/2007
Fruits of Spirit Kindness Kindess Galatians 5:22-23 Kindess, Fruit, Spirit 10/14/2007
Fruits of Spirit Love Love Galatians 5:22-23 Confusion about love – what it is and how it could be 9/9/2007
Fruits of Spirit Patience Patience Galatians 5:22-23 Misunderstanding and lack of patience 10/7/2007
Fruits of Spirit Self-Control Self-Control Galatians 5:22-23 Lack of yet longing for self control 10/21/2007
Galatians A Stark Choice Justification Galatians 2:15-16 The flattery of believing we can make ourselves right with God. 3/4/2007
Galatians Considering Their Consensus God is Good Galatians 2:1-10 The struggle to believe God’s love could be as good as He says 2/18/2007
Galatians Don’t You Know Who You Are In Christ Galatians 3:26-29 Not knowing who we are “in Christ” 6/10/2007
Galatians Freedom Freedom Galatians 5:13-15 Misuse of our freedom in Christ 7/29/2007
Galatians From Slavery to Sonship Adoption Galatians 4:1-7 Prodigal suspicion; Because we have been adopted into God’s family 6/24/2007
Galatians Going Separate Ways Law and Gospel Galatians 4:21-31 Failure to distinguish between living by the law and the gospel 7/15/2007
Galatians Gospel-made Community Longing for Community Galatians 2:11-14 Longing for community. But real threats to it. 2/24/2007
Galatians Is This Really Such a Big Deal? Gospel is Big Deal Galatians 1:11-24 Downplaying the need to get the gospel straight 2/4/2007
Galatians Letter Worth Reading Life of Study Galatians 1:1-5 Our casual attitude towards the Scripture 1/21/2007
Galatians Letting the Law Do Its Job Need for Gospel Galatians 3:19-25 Not seeing our need for the gospel 6/3/2007
Galatians Life of Grace Losing our Way Galatians 3:1-5 Losing our way 3/18/2007
Galatians Life of Grace All Along Rest in Christ Galatians 3:6-9 Waywardness regarding obvious things 3/25/2007
Galatians One True Gospel One Gospel Galatians 1:6-10 Unclear as to what really matters 1/28/2007
Galatians Rule of the Gospel Losing sight of Gospel Galatians 6:11-18 Ever present danger of losing sight of the gospel (the most vital thing) 1/17/2008
Galatians Sowing and Reaping Sowing and Reaping Galatians 6:6-10 Possibility of being deceived re. “sowing and reaping 1/20/2008
Galatians Standing Firm Works Righteousness Galatians 5:1-12 The danger of lapsing back into a works-righteousness 7/22/2007
Galatians Striving to Remember Who we Are Galatians 4:8-20 Prone to forget, to lose sight of who/what we are 7/8/2007
Galatians This Is No Contract God's Love Galatians 3:15-18 Fear that God’s love is like ours 5/27/2007
Galatians Truly Spiritual Life Spiritual Life in Community Galatians 6:1-5 The folly of privatized faith 1/13/2008
Galatians Two Ways Choice Before Us Galatians 3:10-14 The need to see clearly the starkness of the choice before us. 5/13/2007
Galatians Walking by the Spirit Freedom Galatians 5:16-26 Feelings of futility in Christian life 8/5/2007
Galatians Why We Can't Go Back Not Living by the Law Galatians 2:17-21 Tendency to drift from “the solas” 3/11/2007
Jonah God Unchanging Solid Certainty Jonah 3:10 Does God Change 7/20/2005
Jonah He Hears He Hears Jonah 1:17-2:10 Does He hear me? 6/26/2005
Jonah Lessons of Nineveh’s Repentance Examine Our Hearts Jonah 3:1-9 Blindness to our need to repent 7/10/2005
Jonah LORD’s Pursuit of His Own God's Commitment to Us Jonah 1:4-17 Failure to appreciate the lengths God will go to for us 6/5/2005
Jonah Reasonableness of the Miraculous: Why Not a Great Active in Creation Jonah 1:17 Resistance to the possibility of the miraculous 6/12/2005
Jonah Runaway Prophet Blessing to the World Jonah 1:1-3 Blindness to purpose 5/29/2005
Jonah Serving the Incomprehensible God Turn to Him Jonah 4:1-11 Our fretting, taking things into our hands 7/24/2005
Letters of John Doctrine: Why Bother? Dangers of False Doctrine 2 John The effect of the lie: “Doctrine doesn’t matter” 3/19/2006
Letters of John Why of Hospitality Pursuing Hospitality 2 John Not knowing who we are > not knowing what to do 3/12/2006
Life in Church How God Sees the Church God Values the Church Ephesians Failure to appreciate who we are as the Church 1/13/2005
Life in Church Life in the Church – Being with One Another God Works Through the Church
Failure to realize the necessity of “being with one another” 10/1/2004
Life in Church Life in the Church: Living with One Another Lives a Living Response Ephesians Failure to see the necessity of a change of life with an acceptance of the gospel 1/27/2005
Marriage Hunting the Foxes Precious Gift of Marriage Song of Solomon 2:15 Failure to guard our marriages 2/12/2006
Marriage Love Song Marriage Relationship Psalm 45 Am I loved? 2/13/2005
Marriage Marriage: Back to Basics Marriage Genesis 2:18-25 Troubled marriages neeeding guidance from the Counselor 2/10/2008
Miracles of Jesus A Heart Moved to Help Needs of Those Around Us Luke 7:11-17 Inability to be moved by the suffering of others 9/4/2005
Miracles of Jesus Calming of the Storm Trusting Jesus Luke 8:22-25 Loss of security with loss of control (b/c of a loss of trust) 8/14/2005
Misc Glorious City Love of the Church Psalm 87 Low view of the Church > low expectations 5/22/2005
Misc Life and the Weightier Matters Pro-Life, Work for Life Matthew 23:23 Confusion as to what to do when faced with complicated ethical questions 1/22/2006
Misc Reflections on Work Work, Value it in all Its Forms Genesis 1:26-31; 3:17-19 Our failure to appreciate the significance of our work 11/7/2004
Misc Spiritual Depression Spiritual Depression Psalm 42-43 Struggle with spiritual depression – the felt absence of God 2/3/2008
Mother's Day His Last Words, Our New Site New Day Is Coming John 19:24b-27 Nagging sense there should be more
Nagging sense there should be more		 5/14/2006
New Years God's Plans for Our Places God's Plan Jeremiah 29:1-14 Inability to engage in life where we are 1/6/2008
New Years Humble Resolutions Spirit of Humility James 4:13-17 Struggle with making resolutions in accord with reality 1/1/2006
Ruth An Introduction God Working Ruth 1:1-15 Longing but unable to see God at work in our circumstances 2/17/2008
Ruth Jesus Christ, Our Kinsman Redeemer God Being Distant Ruth 3:1-18 Feeling God to be at a distance 3/9/2008
Ruth Seeing His Providential Care Providential Care Ruth 2:1-23 Confusion/uncertainty as to God’s providential care 3/2/2008
Ruth Two Responses to Tragedy Inevitability of hardship Ruth 1:6-22 Inevitability of hardship and heartache. But how do we deal with it? 2/24/2008
Suffering Eyes Opened to See Hope in Suffereing Romans 8:18-23 Failure to see the “unnatural state” of this world > simple answers 9/11/2005
Suffering Sorrowful But Not Surprised Virginia Tech, Suffering Romans 8:19-21 Naïve understanding of the world in which we live 4/22/2007
Ten Commandments Adultery of the Heart Intent for Marriage Exodus 20:14 Casual view of lust 7/9/2006
Ten Commandments Call to Rest Rest Exodus 20:8-11 Exhaustion (not resting in God) 6/18/2006
Ten Commandments Honoring Those in Authority Authorities in Our Lives Exodus 20:12 Confusion how we relate to authority 6/25/2006
Ten Commandments I Am A Liar Speaking Truth Exodus 20:16 Smug assumption we are not liars. 8/6/2006
Ten Commandments Jesus Our Mediator Inability to Obey Exodus 20:18-21 Inability to obey the Law 9/3/2006
Ten Commandments Lacking Nothing Redeemed Exodus 20:17 The struggle with the desire for more 8/20/2006
Ten Commandments Murder of the Heart Must Not Murder Exodus 20:13 Smug assumption we are not murderers 6/2/2006
Ten Commandments No Other Gods Idolatry Exodus 20:3 The very real danger of “idolatry” 5/28/2006
Ten Commandments Thieves Like Us Must Not Steal Exodus 20:15 Smug assumption we are not thieves 7/26/2006
Ten Commandments Weight of the Name God's Name Exodus 20:7 Taking God lightly 6/11/2006
Ten Commandments Words Worth Heeding Pay Heed to Words Exodus 20:1-2 Low place of law in our lives 5/21/2006
Ten Commandments Worship: Basic Principles Worship Governed by His Word Exodus 20:4-6 Presumption in worshipping the true and living God 6/4/2006
Thanksgiving Testimony of Thanks Respond to God Psalm 116 Not knowing how to respond to the work of a gracious God 11/24/2006

 

 

 

  
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