Faith Community Church San Diego
05-22-16 Awesome is His Rule!
Locations & Times
Faith Community Church
2285 Murray Ridge Rd, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
Sunday 8:30 AM
Things We're Highlighting
<b>Graduation Sunday - June 19</b><br>If you or your student will be graduating soon - we want to know, so we can celebrate with you on your accomplishment! Will you please call the office at 858 565-4808 and let us know who we can celebrate.<br><br><b>Ways to Serve this Summer</b><br>We are looking for men & women to serve for Sunday School or Kids’ Day Camps. If interested grab a flyer in the foyer, fill out and put in the offering plate or take to the Welcome table or email Pastor Deb (deb@faithsandiego.org). <br><br><b>Check out the FCC Bookshelf</b><br>Visit our new book resource table in the Courtyard where you can lend books that have been very meaningful in your Christian faith and borrow books from others. There is also a list of staff recommended books that are available for purchase through Amazon.com.
This Morning's Notes
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https://faithsandiego.ccbchurch.com/form_response.php?id=22Additional Resource: The Doors of the Sea
Soon after the Indian Ocean tsunami in December, Hart penned two essays, one for the Wall Street Journal and another for First Things, concerning the question of theodicy-how a powerful, loving God co-exists with evil and natural disaster. This book expands on the essay's theological thesis that "what God permits, rather than violate the autonomy of the created world, may be in itself contrary to what he wills." Hart, an Eastern Orthodox Christian, wants to rescue God from predestination. The book begins with an elegant description of the geological factors leading to the earthquake and ensuing tsunami. Hart then admits that, upon learning of this devastation, "we should probably all have remained silent for awhile." But since few did, he joined the chorus in an effort to counter some upsetting arguments given to help people understand God's role in the disaster. Hart asks Christians to allow themselves to be moved and horrified by violence, natural or human-made, and, at the same time, to acknowledge that God can and someday will bring about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It's an eloquent and persuasive stance. <br>This is a proactive little book (136 pages)...
http://www.amazon.com/Doors-Sea-Where-Was-Tsunami/dp/0802866867/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463891844&sr=1-7&keywords=david+bentley+hartAdditional Resource: Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey In and Out of Calvinism
Does it really matter? Does it matter if we have free will? Does it matter if Calvinism is true? And does what you think about it matter? No and yes. No, it doesn't matter because God is who he is and does what he does regardless of what we think of him, just as the solar system keeps spinning around the sun even if we're convinced it spins around the earth. Our opinions about God will not change God, but they can change us. And so yes, it does matter because the conversations about free will and Calvinism confront us with perhaps the only question that really matters: who is God? This is a book about that question-a book about the Bible, black holes, love, sovereignty, hell, Romans 9, Jonathan Edwards, John Piper, C. S. Lewis, Karl Barth, and a little girl in a red coat. You've heard arguments, but here's a story-Austin Fischer's story, and his journey in and out of Calvinism on a trip to the center of the universe.
http://www.amazon.com/Young-Restless-Longer-Reformed-Calvinism/dp/1625641516/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463892915&sr=1-1&keywords=young+restless+no+longer+reformed