This past weekend in Franca, Brazil was very special. Here Mary and I are with the three pastors of Calvary Covenant Church. We feel like we have known Pastors Paulo Jr., Danilo, and Cunha for years and are truly bonded in Christ. Mary was privileged to give two addresses to the women on various aspects of kindness and I gave four addresses on how the Puritans can motivate us to pursue growth in our sanctification. The congregation was unusually attentive, and we were deeply grateful to hear of immediate fruit on the messages—also from some of the tens of thousands listening online (see session links below).
The people bought all of the hundreds of books that were at the conference and scores of people are on a waiting list for books that sold out. The church hopes to promote all my books in Portuguese through their online bookstore in the future. The fellowship we enjoyed over the weekend at various homes of the pastors and church members through translators was so uplifting. This is truly a congregation that embraces our Reformed, Puritan, experiential heritage, and we are so encouraged that their sermons receive an average of 50,000 listeners. God is doing great things through these pastors and this congregation. Pray for divine benediction upon them.
YouTube links for the four sessions are below:
Session 1: https://youtu.be/0i3ZvP9KZbY?t=784
Session 2: https://youtu.be/Xxu0s6xmCwQ?t=430
Session 3: https://youtu.be/DUTrMNz1ocI?t=959
Session 4: https://youtu.be/W–ADrGc7m4?t=510
