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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(Image source: https://newwaysministryblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/dbb2a-jump_for_joy_910.jpg) For Lord’s Day, July 5, 2015 Dear Saints, Like a father and mother and grandfather and grandmother and uncle and aunt and brother and sister rejoiced in the hospital at your birth, so did the angels celebrate in heaven when you were spiritually delivered. And so they do every time you are […]
For Lord’s Day, June 28, 2015 Dear Saints, With the egregious Supreme Court decision about gay marriage now forced upon our land, here are a few things to be thinking about. First, while some of the rhetoric of the LGBT movement is to no longer be held back by the past, this is nothing new or […]
For Lord’s Day, May 24, 2015 Dear Saints, Yesterday, the same day that Mike and Erin (now the Delgados!) vowed before God and all of you to live in exclusive, life-long covenant faithfulness to one another, the New York Times ran an opinion piece that suggests it may not be biologically realistic to expect […]