Rose City Baptist Church

09/26/2023

08/04/2022

Donations can be brought to the back of the fellowship hall. Volunteers are still needed; bringing baking, cashiers, taking down signs, taking stuff to donation center when done. Please talk to Jen or Amy if your able. Thank you

03/24/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

Today, we are concluding our devotional series through Puritan John Flavel’s Keeping the Heart . It has been an enlightening walkthrough of how to keep the heart even in life’s hardest seasons. Here is Flavel, concluding his book with these words: Now, reader, consider well these special benefit

03/17/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

We will be looking at three more helps for applying the keeping of the heart from Flavel. This is a part of the conclusion of his book, and is thus part of a final exhortation. (See devotional 42 if you would like a review of the last six points). Here is Flavel on point seven: 7. By diligence i

03/10/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

We are continuing Flavel’s conclusion of Keeping the Heart . He gives us four more benefits to this greatest of Christian duties. Last time we looked at (1) how keeping the heart helps us to understand the deepness of the Christian Faith, (2) how it helps inoculate us against error, and (3) how it

03/03/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

Having seen that hypocrites, heart-neglect, and false professors of the Faith fill the professing church, and having seen that keeping the heart is the difference from them, Flavel now comes to stating some great benefits of this work: the chief duty of the Christian: If the keeping of the heart

02/17/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

We are in the application section of Flavel’s book, Keeping the Heart . We will be looking at two more points on the importance of keeping the heart. Last time we saw that merely performing or acting as a Christian—even doing the expected works externally—but not keeping the heart renders all ...

02/10/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

With the last of the seasons for keeping the heart completed, we can now look further at certain application for keeping the heart. Here is Flavel on final application: I now proceed to improve and apply the subject: You have seen that the keeping of the heart is the great work of a Christian, i

02/03/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

We are continuing season 12—the season of preparing for physical death—with three more helps from Flavel. Last time we looked at the first two: (1) death is harmless to the people of God, and (2) death is necessary to prepare His own for the full benefits of heaven. We also saw that our lives, a...

01/27/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

The final season in Flavel’s book, Keeping the Heart , is when we are warned by sickness that our dissolution is at hand . This season is about keeping our hearts even unto our physical deaths. We will be looking at the usual fears that accompany nearing death and looking at principles of Godly wi

01/20/2021

Weekly devotional from guest author Andrew Kuefler.

Season 11 is called, when sufferings for religion are laid upon us . This season focuses specifically on suffering for Christ rather than giving into the flesh. We will look at six helps for keeping our hearts to suffer for Christ, which is the distinct focus of this season. To keep the main teachi