We are now singing the Psalms in our Worship Service using the Trinity Psalter.
As with our hymns, the opening Psalm is selected based on the sermon theme.
We also sing from Psalm 119 between the readings of the Old and New Testaments.
We continue to be blessed with visitors from a wide variety of places. Most recently
we have welcomed families from Massachusetts and Virginia in addtion to those from
Lancaster, California, Fort Collins, Colorado, El Paso, Texas, and Danbury, Connecticut.
From outside the United States, we have had visitors from Canada and The Netherlands.
Happy Birthdays!
We received word and more than thirty photos from the Davidson family, missionaries in
Peru that we support, of their tent campaign in San Juan de Miraflores. The outreach included
all ages and ranged from preaching services to one-on-one discipleship and childrens programs.
Also visiting was the Ortiz family. We enjoyed the fellowship of our elder in Portal, Arizona, and
we look forward to returning the visit and travelling to his part of the southwestern United States.
There is no soul living who holds more firmly to the doctrines of grace than I do, and But far be it from me even to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians
on to other churches in the Albuquerque area.
active in their own Sovereign Grace ministries. Brother Ortiz has a church
in Portal, Arizona and Brother Guerrero leads a group in the El Paso, Texas
area. Both works are done entirely in the Spanish language.
assisted by Brother Daniel Sharpes.
Charles Treadwell and Ray Gonzales
was incorporated as Albuquerque Sovereign Grace Baptist Church
11/7/98: Received 20 new Trinity Hymnals from a brother in Oregon.
Reformed Baptist Church of Grand Rapids, MI and revised to fit our church.
" Call it what you will--Calvinism, reformed theology, the doctrines of grace--these
truths are nothing less than historic Southern Baptist orthodoxy. This is the theology
which gave rise to the formation and early development of the great missionary and
evangelistic enterprise which we know as the Southern Baptist Convention. This is
what our forefathers believed to be the true teaching of Scripture. These are the
doctrines on which they built their churches and which undergirded their ministries.
And if these doctrines were true then, they are still true today, because the Bible has
not changed, God has not changed, and truth does not change.
If we hope to see a renewal in our churches (how we live), then we must be willing to
seek a renewal in our theology (what we believe). Our doctrinal heritage can be very
helpful as it challenges our thinking and points us forward into a renewed understanding
of God's Holy Word."
Excerpt from: Southern Baptist at the Crossroads: Returning to the Old Paths
if any man asks me whether I am ashamed to be called a Calvinist, I answer - I wish
to be called nothing but a Christian; but if you ask me, do I hold the doctrinal views
which were held by John Calvin, I reply, I do in the main hold them, and rejoice to avow it.
within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views...I believe there
are multitudes of men who cannot see these truths, or, at least, cannot see them in the
way in which we put them, who nevertheless have received Christ as their Saviour, and
are as dear to the heart of the God of grace as the soundest Calvinist in or out of Heaven.
A Defence of Calvinism.