Lord's Day Worship: July 18, 2021

Sunday Morning: The worship service will be held in the sanctuary at 10:30 a.m. and available via livestream. This Lord’s Day, Dr. Joshua Van Ee will be leading the morning worship service preaching from Matthew 1:18–25; “Beginning to Save.”

Afternoon Catechism Service:  Our Sunday afternoon catechism service is held at 1:15 p.m. in the sanctuary and livestreamed. Dr. Van Ee will be teaching today from the Heidelberg Catechism: Lord’s Day 10, Q&A 27-28; “God Crashes a Wedding.”

Dr. Van Ee has taught language and biblical studies courses at Westminster Seminary California since 2002. He is an ordained minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America and enjoys various opportunities to preach and teach. He is the son of a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church.

His graduate work included studies comparing Old Testament covenants with ancient treaties and legal texts. In his dissertation, he analyzed creation accounts from the biblical world and explored their relationship with future images of blessing in the prophets. He has studied in Israel and done archaeological work in Jordan. He is an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature. His current research is focused on the ceremonial and sacrificial system. He enjoys training students in the biblical languages and literatures so they can rightly understand and expound the Scriptures. He has published popular and scholarly articles on the Old Testament.

Dr. Van Ee, his wife, Heidi, and their three children reside in Escondido.