For Lord’s Day, May 17, 2015 Dear Saints, Motivated by the church’s recent Homemaker’s movie night, we began reading John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress for family worship. We are making a point to look up a Scripture that summarizes each vivid part. The beginning of the story drew our souls back once more to Matthew 7:13-14: Enter […]
For Lord’s Day, May 10, 2015 Dear Saints, At our Homemakers Movie Night last month, something really stood out to me as helpful for our own Christian Pilgrimage that I’d like to review with you. In the modern retelling of Pilgrim’s Progress, “Journey to Heaven”, a great pearl of wisdom was shared for how to make […]
For Lord’s Day, April 12, 2015 Dear Saints, We had a hearty chuckle yesterday afternoon as I was getting ready to mow the lawn. Isaac (nearly 2, going on 22), became hilariously excited, making driving motions with his arms and uttering engine noises with his voice to indicate that HE too was going to be […]
For Lord’s Day, April 5, 2015 Dear Saints, We were all struck by the typology of the Burnt Offering in Leviticus 1:6-7 last Lord’s Day. (Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissection) Many agreed that the public execution typified by the flaying off of the animal’s skin and the deliberate dissection of it into pieces to be meticulously laid […]
For Lord’s Day, March 15, 2015 Dear Saints, I ended up getting the cold that has been going around my family and I didn’t sleep Friday night, so I took to reading through our family’s collection of Mark Twain writings. I like to read him a lot for a lot of reasons, but one for sure […]
For Lord’s Day, March 8, 2015 Dear Saints, Physical trainer Steve Conley says: “I live by this quote: ‘If you want something you never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.’” This is such a great “proverb” to think through while analyzing our daily walk. It’s just so true and practical. What do […]
For Lord’s Day, February 22, 2015 Dear Saints, In Exodus 32-33, we have seen God’s frightening judgment upon horrible, idolatrous (and adulterous) sin. And we have learned that our repentance is the only means of being restored to the LORD through the work of our Mediator, Jesus Christ. Tomorrow, we will see God forgives and […]