A Christian Church serving God’s people in Roseburg, Oregon. Life at Covenant Life Fellowship is much more than just Sunday mornings. With community groups, study groups, classes, and more, there are plenty of ways be a part of our church-family. Taking care of God’s people is our passion.
God the Father is the Creator of heaven and earth. By his word and for his glory, he freely and supernaturally created the world of nothing. Through the same Word he daily sustains all his creatures. He rules over all and is the only Sovereign. His plans and purposes cannot be thwarted. He is faithful to every promise, works all things together for good to those who love him, and in his unfathomable grace gave his Son Jesus Christ for mankind’s redemption. He made man for fellowship with himself, and intended that all creation should live to the praise of his glory.
Just as the biblical saints expressed their desires for salvation, healing, the victory of God’s appointed king, the gathering of the Church, and more, we will offer our desires to God in prayer.
*This is only a prayer meeting. It is not part of our corporate Sunday gathering.
Join us for church at the ballpark while we praise God as a community in the grand stands of His Glory.
Unit 1: How to Help People Change
Led by: Pastor Bill Heard
In Unit 1 the books “How to Help People Change” by Jay Adams and “Self-Confrontation” by John C Broger will be referenced in the teaching material.
We ask that you have read the book “How to Help People Change” and chapters 1 and 2 of the “Self-Confrontation” manual to ensure that you get the most out of this training.
Online Registration for CLF Ladies August 1st thru August 14th, 2022
Online Registration opens to the public August 15th, 2022
Registration Fees:$25.00 per person (18 & older) $20.00 per person (under 18)
*Online Registration help will be available August 7th & 14th at the hospitality table before the start of each service
This is why we must cling to the truths of Romans 5-8. In our union with Christ, God no longer determines our relationship with Him based on our sin, our fickle love for Him, or how we feel in the morning. God relates to us solely on our union with Christ.
Throughout this series, “United with Christ, I see things in Romans 5-8 that I’ve studied before, but they have come to me with new freshness and joy. Focusing on these chapters has given me a new sense of freedom from the power and penalty of sin and Jesus being my righteous advocate before God. It is simply a stunning display of God’s grace and power that stir me to gratitude and worship.
Romans 6 is a breath-taking look at how the power and penalty of sin do not dominate our lives anymore. It is a text about true freedom. Freedom to live as God intended and the joy that living in that freedom brings us. It’s a chapter about how sanctification (being more like Jesus) happens in our lives. It’s a chapter that shows us the reality and power of Christ’s work for us and how that reality works itself out in our everyday lives.
Romans 6 talks about our real, spiritual union with Jesus. It’s about how God sees our position and status before Him. He not only relates with us based on Jesus’ righteousness, but He frees us from sin’s power and penalty because when Christ died, our old sinful self died with Him, and when Jesus was raised from the dead, our new man was raised with Him. Sin’s power no longer enslaves, and sin’s penalty no longer hangs over our heads. That’s what this text is really about.
So, one of my prayers for our nation is a prayer I have for our church (which is who this blog post is for), is this: that we would be respectful, grace-filled people, who treat others who disagree with us with gentleness and kindness, and we commit ourselves to let truth win our hearts. It’s a big ask for the nation, but it’s not a big prayer for our church.
Sunday was a rich day with our church. I knew going into Sunday that it would be one of those days that I would look back on fondly. The main reason was the text and sermon series we were beginning. Romans 5-8 are some of the most theological encouraging chapters in the entire Bible.