For Lord’s Day, January 31, 2016 Dear Saints, Sometimes there are meaningful things gleaned in commentaries for sermon preparation that won’t make it “out of the woodshed” and into the sermons. Preparing for tomorrow evening’s sermon that will introduce our…
For Lord’s Day, January 24, 2016 Dear Saints, While my family finished the end of Book II of Pilgrim’s Progress together, we were quite moved to read about Christiana and many of her travel companions being called upon by Christ…
For the Lord’s Day, January 17, 2016 Dear Saints, What do you see in this picture: a lion or a lioness? Ah, looks can be deceiving. If you thought this was a lion (meaning a male), you were wrong. This…
For the Lord’s Day, December 20, 2015 Dear Saints, Tomorrow evening’s sermon text, Matthew 3:1-12, has John the Baptist crying out in the wilderness, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight!” And we will see that…
For Lord’s Day, December 6, 2015 Dear Saints, Our weekly bulletin quotes from the Puritan William Secker’s, The Consistent Christian, have for a while now been contrasting godly repentance that preserves life (as in Peter’s case) with worldly repentance that ruins life (as in Judas’ case) having in view…
For Lord’s Day, October 11, 2015 Dear Saints, Considering our evening psalms of the month for corporate worship this October, we were delighted this week in family worship to read the following in Book Two of The Pilgrim’s Progress: … Christiana thought…
Image Source: (Photo by Raymond Watson). For the Lord’s Day, October 4, 2015 Dear Saints, As I’ve been preparing to preach Psalm 23 in the evening services of October, I’ve been reading a number of books by pastors who had also…
For Lord’s Day, September 20, 2015 Dear Saints, I have not had time to write a weekly e-devotion lately, but today I thought I’d share with you some photos of a special moment we captured while Jennifer and I enjoyed…
For the Lord’s Day, August 2, 2015 Dear Saints, A blunt but discerning leadership and parenting nugget is mined from General H. Norman Schwarzkopf’s autobiography, It Doesn’t Take a Hero. He shares the following story during his time as second lieutenant in the…
For Lord’s Day, July 26, 2015 Dear Saints, There is a quote that I will share with you in tomorrow’s morning sermon that is worth meditating on beforehand as we are reminded to remember that we are a chosen people…