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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For the Lord’s Day, August 2, 2015 Dear Saints, A blunt but discerning leadership and parenting nugget is mined from General H. Norman Schwarzkopf’s autobiography, It Doesn’t Take a Hero. He shares the following story during his time as second lieutenant in the United States Army with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky: In the summer […]
For Lord’s Day, July 26, 2015 Dear Saints, There is a quote that I will share with you in tomorrow’s morning sermon that is worth meditating on beforehand as we are reminded to remember that we are a chosen people and God’s peculiar treasure only because we are a redeemed people: The only thing of […]