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THE ASSOCIATE REFORMED
PRESBYTERIAN VOL. 47 NO. 2
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March/April 2022
Moderator’s Challenge - Are You in the Fight? I hope your heart is breaking over the world around you and the way it lives. I hope this because the sad reality is that if your heart doesn’t break over the way the world is living, it won’t break over the way the world is dying. —Patrick Malphrus
Synod Emphasis - Faithful Christian Luke 9 explains the call to committed discipleship and what it means for faithful Christians in three ways. —Clint Davis
Easter and Beyond Celebrate the resurrection all year. —John Cook
8 Go To Church If possible, turn off the screen and join your church family in
person. —Tim Phillips
27 How Much of God is Enough? When God has given you His love and salvation; the ever- present presence and power of His Holy Spirit; the assurance of a home in Heaven with Him forever, what more is there?
—Gilbert Rowell
AGENCIES Bonclarken
Christian Education Ministries Erskine
Erskine Seminary
14 Outreach North America 15 World Witness
19 Women’s Ministries Synod 2022 June 7-9, 2022
EVERY MONTH 16
Family Pages 17 Prayer Calendar
22 ARPinterest 24 News In Brief 29
All in Our Family 30 Classified Ads
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