Tacoma Bible Presbyterian Church Beholding God, Pursuing Godliness, Proclaiming Christ.

31Dec/08Off

The Lord’s Blessings in 2009!

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At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, because of Your righteous judgments.  I am a companion of all who fear You, and of those who keep Your precepts. - Psalm 119:62-63

As if he should have said that the day was not sufficient enough for him, but that in the time of his quiet rest, he lifted up his mind into heaven to give thanks unto God.  In this he signifieth that he continued praising of God without wearisomeness.  Now then, if we rightly follow the example of David, we must not give God thanks when we think good, and when we shall have remembered Him once in fifteen days, or I know not when: or else when as it shall be for fashion's sake, as when the Bell ringeth to cause us to come to the Sermon.  But it must be always, for we must both in the evening, and morning, and also at midnight, have our minds waking to give Him thanks.

- John Calvin

3Dec/08Off

Join Us For Prayer! Wednesday @ 7pm

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Progress yourselves to prayer meeting!

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?  Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? - Exodux 15:11

Persons that are proud have gotten God and His holiness out of their sight.  If God was before them, as He is behind their back, and if they saw Him in His holiness, as He sees them in their sin and shame, they would take but little pleasure in their apish knacks.  The holiness of God makes the angels cover their faces, crumbles Christians, when they behold it, into dust and ashes.

- John Bunyan

19Nov/08Off

Join Us for Prayer – Wed 7PM

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"Go to prayer meeting!"

Though God's children cannot quite deface their graces, yet they may disfigure them.  Too much carnal liberty may weaken their evidences, and so dim their lustre that they cannot be read.  These characteristics of the godly are precious things.  Gold and crystal cannot be compared with them.  Oh, keep them well written in your hearts and they will be so many living comforts in a dying hour.  It will not frighten a Christian to have all the signs of death in his body, when he can see all the signs of grace in his soul.  He will say with Simeon, "Lord, now lettest thou they servant depart in peace" (Luke 2:29).

- Thomas Watson