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Jesus Will Be Standing to Receive You into Heaven

January 23, 2016

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 at different moments to join Him at His heavenly feast.  They were each so very […]

Of Men and Manes and Identifying with the Messiah

January 16, 2016

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 is a picture of a lioness! She and some other lionesses in the Mombo of […]

Prepare Ye Straight Paths for the Way of the Lord

December 19, 2015

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 John’s main theme of preparing the way for the coming of King Jesus with His Kingdom […]

The Right and Wrong Kind of Repentance

December 5, 2015

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 this verse:  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but […]

Melodious Companionship through Melancholy

October 10, 2015

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 she heard in a grove a little way off on the right hand, a most […]

Barrenness May Actually Be Birthing Season

October 3, 2015

Image Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/466341/Ewe-look-like-a-winner-Cute-lambs-win-our-Spring-Photo-contest (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 been actual shepherds in Scotland and East Africa that I’ll be drawing on a lot […]

His Eye is On the Sparrow

September 18, 2015

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 our anniversary lunch together at an outdoor cafe overlooking La Jolla Coves last month.  This […]

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