Our Mission:
To develop followers of Jesus Christ in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, in the Greater Pittsburgh area, and throughout the world.
TBC CORE VALUES
The Five Essentials
WORD
WORSHIP
CONNECT
SERVE
SHARE
Why We Can Trust the Bible
1. Internal claims
2. Continuity of Scripture
3. Preservation
4. Fulfilled Prophecies
5. Personal Experience
Worship is an active demonstration of my love for God in every area of my life—all day, every day.
For you created my inmost being
You knit me together in my mother’s womb
WORSHIP
January 20, 2019 • Ron Moore
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CONNECT
February 3, 2019 • Ron Moore
Our Mission: To develop followers of Jesus Christ in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, in the Greater Pittsburgh area, and throughout the world. TBC CORE VALUES The Five Essentials WORD WORSHIP CONNECT SERVE SHARE Genesis 1:1—God: All-Powerful Creator Genesis 1:2—Spirit of God: Protector and Overseer Genesis 1:3—The Word of God: Life-Giving Agent of Creation THE ESSENCE OF CONNECTION IS THE PERSON OF GOD. THE EXPRESSION OF CONNECTION IS THE PEOPLE OF GOD. THE ANCHOR OF CONNECTION IS THE SON OF GOD.
WORD
January 13, 2019 • Ron Moore
TBC CORE VALUES The Five Essentials WORD WORSHIP CONNECT SERVE SHARE Can the Bible be Trusted? Claims Construction Preservation Prophesies Experience Written by an apostle. Written by those associated with an apostle. Faithfulness to previously accepted writings Confirmed by Christ, prophet, apostle (Luke 24:44; 2 Pet. 3:16). Church usage and recognition There seems to me to have been twice as much done in some ages in defending the Bible as in expounding it, but if the whole of our strength shall henceforth go to the exposition and spreading of it, we may leave it pretty much to defend itself . . . Many suggestions are made and much advice is offered. This weapon is recommended, and the other. Pardon me if I offer a quiet suggestion. Open the door and let the lion out; he will take care of himself. Why, they are gone! He no sooner goes forth in his strength than his assailants flee. The way to meet infidelity is to spread the Bible. The answer to every objection against the Bible is the Bible. -C. H. Spurgeon Speeches at Home and Abroad, from a speech at the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, May 5th, 1875: