Next Sunday is the First Day of Advent, the season of anticipation and spiritual focus during the FOUR Sundays before Christmas Day. In our advent worship, we have selected readings from Scripture and we sing advent hymns. CPCC also holds our annual “Advent Festival & Luncheon” on Dec. 3rd, beginning at Noon. We’ll enjoy a meal & fellowship, as well as special games for kids. The hot entree is provided, and families bring a salad or dessert to share. (See the sign-up sheet on the round table at church, and plan to participate.)

Free advent devotional book
also during the season of Advent, CPCC is offering a daily Advent devotional book:  “Come Let Us Adore Him” by Paul David Tripp (free, one for each household). The readings start on Friday, December 1st, so pick up your copy this Sunday.

The Adult Class this fall begins a study on Redemption Accomplished & Applied with Pastor David Bissett, using the famous little book by Dr John Murray.  A paperback published by Eerdmans is for sale everywhere; an e-book is available from the Banner of Truth. 

Schedule of Lessons….
PART I — REDEMPTION ACCOMPLISHED     
    1. The Necessity of the Atonement     
    2. The Nature of the Atonement     
    3. The Perfection of the Atonement
    4. The Extent of the Atonement     
    5. Conclusion     
PART II — REDEMPTION APPLIED 
    1. The Order of Application     
    2. Effectual Calling     
    3. Regeneration     
    4. Faith and Repentance     
    5. Justification     
    6. Adoption     
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Professor John Murray (1898-1975) was recognized in his own lifetime as one of the leading Reformed theologians in the English-speaking world. His Redemption Accomplished and Applied, expounds the atonement, stressing union with Christ, with adoption as the apex of the redemptive privileges.
Born at Migdale, near Bonar Bridge, Scotland, he attended Dornoch Academy, and served with the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) in France during the First World War, losing an eye in the conflict. After the War, he pursued studies, first at the University of Glasgow (MA, 1923), and then at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA (1924-27).
In 1929 he was invited to teach Systematic Theology at Princeton, and did so for one year, before joining the Faculty of the newly formed Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. There he shared with such scholars and Christian leaders as J. Gresham Machen and Cornelius Van Til in the great struggle to maintain the old Princeton tradition in theology, represented by the Hodges and B. B. Warfield. He was ordained in 1937 by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, USA.
John Murray remained at Westminster until his retirement in 1966. He returned to his native Scotland, married Valerie Knowlton in December 1967 and enjoyed a brief period of fatherhood prior to his death in 1975. A careful scholar, an eloquent lecturer, a moving preacher, and the author of many outstanding articles and books, Murray’s driving passions were to declare Christ’s Word, advance his cause, and bless his people.
The Banner of Truth Trust publishes his Collected Writings in four volumes.