Christ Reformed Info

The bulletin for Sunday

Join us on Friday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m. when Professor Kenneth Samples continues the Academy series entitled “Learning Skills 101: Learning How To Learn (Part 5)”

The motto for the United Negro College Fund sends chills up my spine whenever I hear it. Its foreboding yet challenging message declares: “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” For the Christian, however, the stakes are even higher. A human mind made in the image and likeness of an infinite, eternal, and personal God (Gen. 1:26-27) is a fortiori (Latin: “with greater force,” “all the more”) a terrible thing to waste.

The Study Skills 101: Learning How To Learn class is specifically offered to help believers sharpen their thinking, reading, and speaking skills. This course can be directly helpful to teachers, parents (especially homeschool parents), and students, particularly adult students who want to engage in a lifelong journey of intellectual discovery and learning. This class can serve as a fun and challenging opportunity to clear the mental cobwebs that too often accumulate with the passage of time and age. All educational levels can benefit from the content of this class. Come and learn the enduring insights of famed philosopher and educator Mortimer J. Adler by studying his best selling work How to Read a Book. -- Professor Kenneth Samples.

Textbooks: How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren and A World of Difference by Kenneth Samples

Instructor: Professor Kenneth Samples, Senior Scholar of Apologetics at Reasons to Believe, Adult Education Instructor at Christ Reformed Church, Anaheim.

Dr. Riddlebarger is teaching a series entitled "The Person and Work of Christ" using materials from the course he taught at Westminster Seminary California last spring.

Evening prayer begins at 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study starts at 7:30 p.m.

Ladies another year has begun and we have a new book list! 2008 was a year for Christian Classics, whereas the "Life of the Mind" is our theme for this year of 2009. We look forward to lively discussion groups and fellowship with our Ladies book club.

1. Michael S. Horton, Too Good to be True
2. Kenneth R. Samples, A World of Difference
3. Kim Riddlebarger, A Case for Amillennialism
4. Michael S. Horton, Christless Christianity
5. Kenneth R. Samples, Without a Doubt
6. Kim Riddlebarger,The Man of Sin

Please join the congregation of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim as we celebrate Reformation Day in song!  All are cordially invited to attend our Festival of Hymns on Friday, October 30, at 7:30 p.m. for an inspiring evening of congregational song accompanied by choir, brass, and organ.  All are welcome to stay for dessert and fellowship after the Hymn Festival.  For directions, click on the link here on the church's webpage or call (714) 538-1057.

Dr. Kim Riddlebarger recently preached at Grace Reformed Church in West Linn, a suburb of Portland. Grace Church is a URCNA church plant, overseen by Immanuel's Reformed Church in Salem.

Two families from Christ Reformed now live in the area and are worshiping there.  Matt and Jocelyn Friend send their greetings (pictured).  Matt was a deacon at Christ Reformed. 

Jill and Scott Coppin were also present and are expecting their second child.  They too send greetings!

Steve Irons, chairman of our missions committee, has developed two new pages here on the Christ Reformed blog.

The new resource is entitled "Missions and Our Missionaries" and includes two sections. 

• One is a journal with the latest news from our missionaries and from the missions committee (http://www.christreformed.org/mission-news/). 
• The other is a series of links to all those missions we currently support (http://www.christreformed.org/links-to-our-missionaries/). 

Be sure to stop and look through this great resource!  (Scroll down the right sidebar.)  And be sure to pray for our missionaries!