God is Always our Help
For Lord’s Day, February 16, 2014 Dear Saints, Tomorrow we will be reminded that, “hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (1 Sam 7:12) and that this is always the case. God has “proved” the Israelites again and again to have…
Fighting for Jesus Instead of Complaining
For Lord’s Day, February 9, 2014 Dear Saints, I recently saw two videos providing amazing examples of not murmuring against God over difficult providences. It was a humbling reminder of what Christ preached to us last week in Exodus 16:1-17:7…
Drink of Jesus Again
For Lord’s Day, February 2, 2014 Dear Saints, Several thematic elements continue out of Exodus 15 into chapters 16 and 17 this Lord’s Day. One of the main and very sad themes is that the people keep murmuring against and…
Be a Good Soldier
For Lord’s Day, January 26, 2014 Dear Saints, We will see this Lord’s Day that the Angel of God (the preincarnate Jesus Christ) leads Israel into the wilderness. Previously, we saw He led the Church to the edge of the…
Know God in the Now
For Lord’s Day, January 19, 2014 Dear Saints, I have been very blessed recently by listening to and meditating on Michael Card’s song, “Know You in the Now”. It has come to mind with our sermon texts for the Lord’s…
Good Works are Good
For Lord’s Day, January 5, 2014 Dear Saints, In Sabbath Class last week, we in part studied chapter 16 of the Westminster Confession of Faith, “Of Good Works”. I pointed out that too many Protestant Evangelicals today live out the…
What is Sin? A Confessional Answer that Might Have Helped Duck Dynasty
For Lord’s Day, December 21, 2013 Dear Saints, As most of you are likely well aware by now, Phil Robertson — the patriarch of A&E’s Cable program “Duck Dynasty”, has been suspended from the program indefinitely because of his “coarse”…
Planting Trees While Not Missing the Forest
For Lord’s Day, December 15, 2013 Dear Saints, In the video Elder Renner began to share with us on Wednesday, Monumental, we learned about how the Pilgrims left our nation a monument so that we would remember how our nation will…
The Way We Were and Who We Are
For Lord’s Day, December 8, 2013 Dear Saints, In her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: an english professor’s journey into christian faith, Dr. Rosaria Butterfield compares her Christian conversion experience to “an alien abduction or a train…
Little Bits of Holy Things the Way to Major Holiness
For Lord’s Day, December 1, 2013 Dear Saints, I have something big to share with you today; but it is packaged in little things. First, the title of a new Thanksgiving sermon on SermonAudio caught my eye recently: “Proud People…