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Passing on the Faith through My Trust and Last Will and Testament

January 29, 2017

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 I will be charging her to Keep Picking Up and Passing on the Faith and […]

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Superflous Praise for Superlative Grace: Our Cup Runneth Over

January 21, 2017

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 new every morning for great is His faithfulness.   (Image source: https://caffeineforge.com/2013/08/07/my-cup-runneth-over/) We remembered in that […]

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Don’t Throw Away Your Vote to Pragmatic Politics

November 7, 2016

Dear Saints, As you know, I’m up in the mountains on respite with the children and will not be able to vote tomorrow for the next president of the United States of America. Frankly, I’m disgusted with the candidate options, and if I was able to vote I would write in a name that was clearly Christian […]

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Daniel Diet Devotion

July 28, 2016

Van Leuven Family Devotion for Start Date of Gerson Therapy Protocol Encouragement for healing and health improvement and safety July 20, 2016 Creation’s Diet Design Extended through the Flood: Psalm 139:14-15: we are fearfully and wonderfully made (designed, thus so would naturally be our food; just like any machine, it’s fuel is carefully designed for […]

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Men Must Minister to Women

June 4, 2016

For Lord’s Day, June 5, 2016 Dear Saints, Jennifer and I recently came across a video (shared below) that I mentioned to you in passing in last week’s evening sermon on the qualifications for elders. There I reminded us that the Hebrew word for “elders” is more literally “bearded ones” as an example that only […]

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Post Tenebras Lux: “After Darkness, Light”

March 19, 2016

For Lord’s Day, March 20, 2016 Dear Saints, Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness … so reads Psalm 112:4. Thomas Watson quoted this Scripture in his lengthy exposition of the beatitude we look at tomorrow night, Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God (Matthew 5:9), in […]

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Persevering Friendship

March 5, 2016

Image source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/357262182914318275/ For Lord’s Day, March 6, 2016 Dear Saints, I was impressed with something I recently heard a celebrated American composer and singer-songwriter share that I’d like to pass on to you, my friends and brethren: I’ve had hopeless times in my life about different things, and you just have to persevere, because one […]

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