For Lord’s Day, October 8, 2023 Dear Saints, In our last devotion, we saw how Augustine began to come close to God by slowly losing hold of himself in sickness of himself until he came to the end of himself. …
For the Lord’s Day, September 24, 2023 Dear Saints, A while back I was saving up some quotes I highlighted out of Augustine’s Confessions for potential topical sermon ideas. Well, I lost my idea of what I was thinking of doing…
For Lord’s Day, September 17, 2023 Dear Saints, Recently during our Wednesday night studies of the sixth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, the second half, “But Deliver Us from Evil,” with the Puritan Thomas Watson, we reviewed 13 means to…
Dear Saints, I am happy to announce that we have begun to slowly convert audio cassettes “in-house” into digital form of sermons recorded during the 33-year ministry of the beloved Rev. Wallace A. Bell here at what is now called…
For Lord’s Day, February 25, 2023, Dear Saints, A few weeks ago, I was nudging Gabriel along in the Church parking lot to get more used to riding his big boy bike with training wheels. He took a while to…
For the Lord’s Day, December 3, 2022 Dear Saints, This Wednesday night we finished Ligonier Ministries’ Reformation 500 video series with a final Q&A panel discussion. Something in the end of the video, as you know, surprisingly rang out to…
For Lord’s Day, November 26, 2022 Dear Saints, As I have just entered the 13th year of ministry with you this month and very recently began reading through a book historically important to my second ministry employer, the Alliance of…
For Lords’ Day, October 8, 2022 Dear Saints, First, let me rejoice with you that Abraham Van Leuven met with Session this week to review his fully completed Membership Class test and discuss his hearty desire to graduate to communicant…
Since this post, the show ran and here is a link for its podcast where you can now hear it: ____________________________________________________________ Dear Saints, I wanted to share the following, which also can be viewed publicly here (if it’s easier to…
For Lord’s Day, August 7, 2022 Dear Saints, During our Westminster Confession of Faith Membership/Enquirer’s Class this week we studied chapter 29, “Of the Lord’s Supper,” together. In that class we discussed the Biblical warrant and practical benefit of weekly…