Bible Doctrine - Chapter 11 (Part 2)

Click the link below to open a Word doc. of Aaron's notes for Bible Doctrine, Chapter 11 (Part 2) that was taught on March 19 on the subject of the Nature of Man. The notes were actually from Grudem's Systematic Theology, chapter 23, where Grudem spend an entire chapter on this subject.
Remember, this will be a rough outline, but should assist those in Bible Doctrine Study Groups.

Aaron's Notes, Chapter Eleven (Nature of Man)


Remember to check the 222mission Calendar to find a Bible Study group near you - there are now four groups meeting: UCA, UALR, UAMS and West Little Rock.

Grudem on Men & Women

Men & Women are Wayne Grudem's specialty. Not because he's trying to start some lame "Christian Dating Service", but because he's spent a good portion of his academic career studying the similarities and differences between men & women. His colaboration with John Piper, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, is a classic everyone should own.

So, in preparation for Chapter 12 in Grudem's Bible Doctrine, a great supplemental resource to check out is a presentation that Grudem gave on this very subject. Manhood and Womanhood in Creation and Marriage: 5 Key Issues was delivered at a 2004 Sovereign Grace Leadership Conference, it's also been featured on Revive Our Hearts.

There are several ways listed below to listen and/or view this message, so be sure to avail yourself of this valuable resource.

Download the PDF file of Grudem's notes/outline here (free).

Purchase the mp3 audio file for your iPod or mp3 player file here($2.00)

Purchase the cd here ($5.00).

Door of Hope to Present 2nd Concert

THIS FRIDAY...March 24th is a chance for God’s people to share in what is taking place on the other side of the world. Missionaries Brian and Anita Biedebach need our help and this is our chance to help them.
On March 24th, a concert will be put on by the Door of Hope ministries. Admission to the concert is free, but a love offering will be taken. All the proceeds that evening will be sent over to South Africa to the Lambano Sanctuary.

Lambano Sanctuary was founded in May 2001 by Melanie Streicher and Leon van den Berg mainly because of a calling on their lives. As Melanie could not have any children of her own the call on her life was clear when the following verses from Isaiah 54 touched her heart: "Sing O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of they habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left…" (Is 54:1-3). Read more about Lambano Sanctuary by clicking here.

Please come out THIS FRIDAY, March 24th at 7pm for a night of worship featuring the band "As Through Glass" at the Bible Church of Little Rock (19111 Cantrell/Hwy 10). You can give financially towards this missions endeavor, and/or volunteer to help out. For more information and to find out how you can help with the event, email Jason Lapp.

Next Girls Night Out - March 21st

222 GIRLS NIGHT OUT

at the home of Judy Crotts

March 21st at 7:30pm

you're welcome to bring other snacks & drinks if you like (not required).

For more info or directions, email Judy.

222 Tournament Challenge

222 Tournament Challenge from Nate Williams

To join the 222 Bracket contest, go to
this ESPN site

You will have sign up to join ESPN, so remember to uncheck all the littleboxes that say, "If you would like to receive junk mail of this nature."
Once you have registered, click on "Join Group," and search to find "222Little Rock".
The password to join is, "Believers" (without the quotation marks, and with the Capitol "B")

If you have any trouble, please email Nate Williams

As a prize, the winner will receive a free banana at whichever house chooses to host a NCAA championship game party for 222.

Tips to Study Ephesians by Jeff Crotts

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called...

Ephesians 4:1 (English Standard Version)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.

Pastor Jeff began our study in the book of Ephesians last night at 222. In the process of introducing the book and it's overall themes, he gave some practical guidelines in how we are to study the Bible on our own. To view his notes, click here.

Post-Puberty??

Are you going through adultescence? No - I didn't spell it wrong...I'm not speaking of adolescence, but ADULTescence. Check out this article.
It's a new thing - or at least a new term used by Alex & Brett Harris.

Don't know 'em?
Do ya know Josh Harris?
Of course.
Well, Alex & Brett are Josh's younger... twin brothers!
They've got a blog too.
It's really aimed at teenagers, but there are some interesting posts over there,.

Na

This isn't a heavy push or promotion (like Passion was:o), although I think I can safely assume that this might be a better bang for the buck. But even if you don't go, check out some cool stuff over at New Attitude - here's a brief history (taken from the New Attitude website):

For 6 years New Attitude was a conference run by Joshua Harris, the author of classics I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Boy Meets Girl. Thousands of singles from churches across the country and beyond would cram into the Kentucky International Convention Center for four days of electric gospel preaching, meeting new friends, floor shaking worship, late night pizza, and excruciatingly long lines at the local Starbucks.
Then it retired. God called Josh to become senior pastor of his local church, and he wanted to submit to God in committing all his attention to his new role. Everyone was sad to see Na go though, and Josh hoped for it to return some day.
"Some day" like today. Josh has given New Attitude over to the thriving singles ministry of his own Covenant Life Church, lead by pastor Eric Simmons. Under Eric's leadership, we're working to make this the largest, most thrilling New Attitude yet. We're heading back to Louisville, Kentucky. Josh is coming up to preach. The buzz is spreading across the Net: New Attitude is back! Oh, and there are three Starbucks now… go Louisville!

So if you're not aware of Na yet, check it out...you'll find music, mesages, podcasts...and be sure to check out "Save The Wheel"...it's a timely message for our postmodern times!

Meet Geoff Thomas

**This post adapted from iamchief.

Recently, Aaron taught on 1 Timothy 1:12-17 during 222 and quoted a sermon by Geoff Thomas, pastor of Alfred Place Baptist Church in Aberystwyth, Wales.

In introducing this account (one of many - see Acts 9, 22, 26; 1 Cor 15:9-10; Gal 1; Eph 2:8; Phil 3; 1 Tim 1) of Paul's gratitude for his salvation & calling into Gospel ministry, Pastor Thomas reminds us of the awe that we ourselves should never lose:

In all genuine Christianity there is a sense of wonder. That sinning creatures like ourselves should know the Maker of this universe, that we may have a personal relationship with him, and that he does love us with a love that will never let us go - no true Christian can ever get to the stage where he becomes blase about such breathtaking realities. But those people who have lightly professed to have become Christians can just as easily give up their faith. What has cost nothing is worth nothing. How different those who have learned their unworthiness, and have groaned with the deepest conviction, "God be merciful to me the sinner." They will never forget that arms of mercy embraced them.

On into his sermon, when explaining the need to often reflect back on the sinful life from which we've been delivered, Thomas shares this quote from Puritan Thomas Goodwin:

Thomas Goodwin one wrote a letter to his son in which he said, "When I was threatening to become cold in the ministry, and when I felt Sabbath morning coming and my heart was not filled with amazement at the grace of God, or when I was making ready to dispense the Lord's Supper, do you know what I used to do? I used to take a turn up and down among the sins of my past life, and I always came down again with a broken and contrite heart, ready to preach, as it was preached in the beginning, the forgiveness of sins...I do not think I ever went up the pulpit stair that I did not stop for a moment at the foot of it and take a turn up and down among the sins of my past years, I do not think that I ever planned a sermon that I did not take a turn around my study table and look back at the sins of my youth and of all my life down to the present; and many a Sabbath morning, when my soul had been cold and dry, for the lack of prayer during the week, a turn up and down in my past life before I went into the pulpit always broke my hard heart and made me close with the gospel for my own soul before I began to preach."

Great stuff! To read the entire sermon, and to read many of his other sermon manuscripts, click here.


**UPDATE 2-16-06**
From Aaron: Just received a couple of emails from Pastor Geoff Thomas, thanking me for my interest in his sermons & ministry. I wanted to share a paragraph from one of his emails, where he describes the spiritual condition of Wales. This should make us thankful for being in America, and direct our prayers for revival in Europe.
Geoff wrote (emphasis mine):

I enjoyed what a Protestant Reformed man wrote recently about the hope for the future of the church of Jesus Christ in Wales, that it lies in powerful, sound, biblical, confessional and doctrinal preaching. That is how the Reformation of the sixteenth century came. Only by fiery and faithful preachers instructing the people in truth by way of expository sermons can a new reformation come about. I agree. The need is for congregations of the faithful to be established according to the principles of New Testament church government in the context of word-centred worship. Then churches will arise from the ashes. I agree with all of that but not with the coolness the writer shows to the need of a great awakening. I have thus preached throughout my ministry but my impact on the community has been minimal and there is no fear of God in the land. I said forty years ago that if ten men were converted from the world to Jesus Christ in this town it would make a great impact. I have yet to see that. The coming of the soundest theology must be accompanied by the coming of the convicting life-giving Spirit. When this brother says about a great awakening, “Pinning all their hopes for the future of the church in Wales on revival they are fastening their hopes on a mirage” then he is speaking too severely. He is writing out of the abundance of the North American context into the wilderness of the European situation.

Bible Doctrine - Chapter 10 - Angels

Click the link below to open a Word doc. of Jeff's notes for Bible Doctrine, Chapter 10 that was taught on February 5th on the subject of God's Angels. Remember, this will be a rough outline, but should assist those in Bible Doctrine Study Groups.

Jeff's notes for Bible Doctrine, Chapter Ten (Angels)


Remember to check the 222mission Calendar to find a Bible Study group near you - there are now four groups meeting: UCA, UALR, UAMS and West Little Rock.