Worship Concert, Nov. 22

You probably haven't heard of Jennifer Shaw. Yet.

She will perform a worship concert at ECC on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. What an amazing opportunity this is for our church and community to be blessed by Jennifer's music and ministry. Jennifer is music director at Faith Covenant Church in Westerville, Ohio and is a classically-trained Christian recording artist with a fast growing audience. She has produced five CDs of worship music and will soon release another that will include "Your Great Name," a song that recently cracked the top 5 on the national worship chart.

Listen to Jennifer tell her own story:



Visit her website: www.jennifershawmusic.com.

Jennifer's concert will be an exciting event for ECC and a great opportunity to invite family, friends and neighbors to our church. You don't need to buy a ticket, but don't let that stop you from coming! (We will collect a free-will offering that evening for Jennifer.)

New Clothes

Do you ever find that it’s hard to watch the news? There’s so much bad news about bad people doing bad things. In fact, if all you knew about the world was what you learned by watching the evening news, you probably wouldn’t ever leave your house again!

Of course, the Bible teaches that we are all sinners, that we all do bad things; we all hurt people and hurt God and live as though God weren’t there or just didn’t matter.

But in Christ, God calls us to a new life, a different kind of life. He calls us to a life that honors Him and loves other people. Colossians 3:12-14 is a beautiful image of this new life:

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity (NIV).

The world is full of bad things. Sometimes we run into bad people. But we are called to be different. We are called by Jesus to be compassionate, not selfish; to be kind, not rude; to be humble, not arrogant; to be gentle, not rough; to be patient, not greedy.

And we are called to make a difference in the lives of others. Jesus asks us to help others learn how to honor God by the example we set. I hope we all clothe ourselves with love each day.