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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Wise, Discerning Discipline

July 31, 2015

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 […]

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Remember Christ’s Redeeming Righteousness

July 25, 2015

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 […]

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Discerning and Doing the Will of the Lord as His People

July 18, 2015

For Lord’s Day, July 19, 2015 Dear Saints, Before I put J.G. Vos’ Westminster Larger Catechism commentary back on the shelves, I thumbed through its pages for review and came across these statements that seemed quite poignant for the times of our nation. We the people need the ability to distinguish between good and evil […]

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Thomas Watson on the Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer

July 11, 2015

  For Lord’s Day, July 12, 2015 Dear Saints, Tomorrow evening we will conclude the Westminster Larger Catechism with the conclusion to the Lord’s Prayer (Q&A 196). For a change, I won’t be sharing any quotes from Thomas Watson’s commentary on it during the evening sermon. But I’d like to give you some more nuggets […]

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