Paint a Better Picture
For the Lords’ Day, August 26, 2017 Dear Saints, We are so thankful to have returned from our 5-week trip to the Land Down Under! We missed you terribly, and though we are still settling it is so goooooooooooood to…
Redeem Your Time While There is Time
For Lord’s Day, May 14, 2015 Dear Saints, This week, in this blog, I saw this cartoon: This reminded me of this cartoon I saw on the wall while visiting Isaac’s doctor recently: These just seem to go together and…
Contentment: Spiritually Internal thus Independent of Externals
For Lord’s Day, April 2, 2017 Dear Saints, Here is our next installment of Jeremiah Borroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment to supplement our Wednesday Night study of Thomas Watson’s, The Art of Divine Contentment (both based on Philippians…
Affliction: The Moment We Need to Learn More Contentment
For Lord’s Day, February 26, 2017 Dear Saints, Our next installment of Jeremiah Burroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment deals with being content through affliction (which we saw from our recent Wednesday night studies with Watson’s book on the topic…
An American Pastor’s Polemic on Politics
Dear Saints, While I was caring for Abraham while he was sick this Lord’s Day, I was afforded time to finish my reading of William S. Plumer’s, Jehovah-Jirah: A Treatise on Providence. The book has been a dear friend to…
Contentment: Christian Self-Sufficiency
For the Lord’s Day, February 19, 2017 Dear Saints, Here is our next supplemental installment to Watson’s, Art of Divine Contentment on Wednesday nights from Burroughs’ Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Chapter 1, “Christian Contentment Described.” His starting point for…
Peaceful Contentment in Peacemaking
For Lord’s Day, February 12, 2017 Dear Saints, Having begun our Wednesday Night study with Thomas Watson’s, The Art of Divine Contentment, let us begin our supplemental e-devotions with Jeremiah Burroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. Before we actually…
The Artful Study of Strange Providences for Our Contentment
For Lord’s Day, February 4, 2017 Dear Saints, Next Wednesday night we will begin studying Thomas Watson’s, The Art of Divine Contentment, and I plan to use our weekly (Lord-willing) e-devotions/Pastor’s Posts to share the “cliff notes” of Jeremiah Burrough’s,…
Passing on the Faith through My Trust and Last Will and Testament
For Lord’s Day, January 29, 2017 Dear Saints, On the occasion of my daughter, Olivia Rose, taking her communicant membership vows before you this morning to be received into full communion and begin taking the Lord’s Supper this evening, wherein…
Superflous Praise for Superlative Grace: Our Cup Runneth Over
For the Lord’s Day, January 22, 2017 Dear Saints, Last Lord’s Day’s morning sermon based on Ephesians 3:8 encouraged us to more deeply explore “the unsearchable riches of Christ”. We were exhorted to “Keep Searching Out Christ”, as His mercies are…