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Proper Preparation for the Lord’s Day and Supper

January 17, 2015

For Lord’s Day, January 18, 2015 [Photo source: http://myheartioffer.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html] Dear Saints, Thomas Watson writes, “There is no receiving a crucified Christ but to a consecrated heart.” Watson is speaking to the vital need of preparing ourselves properly for our effectual taking of the Lord in His Supper (which will be our topic of Scripture study tomorrow evening by the […]

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The Power of Piety is in Self-Denial

January 3, 2015

(Image source: http://www.pi-e-t.com) For Lord’s Day, January 4, 2015 Dear Saints, Happy New Year! As we prepare to worship together for the first time in the two thousand and fifthteenth year of our Lord, it is always helpful to renew ourselves in the new man by review: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is […]

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Responsible Parenting and Its Righteous Reward

December 26, 2014

For Lord’s Day, December 28, 2014 Dear Saints, I have some very happy news to share with you as I have recently been given clearance by Mr. Allie to “go public” with some family news to further inform your prayers for them.  Please now add to your prayers the Lord’s blessing upon their new family […]

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Be Still and Know the Lord Almighty is With Us

December 6, 2014

For Lord’s Day, December 6, 2014 Dear Saints, In our study of Sinclair Ferguson’s A Heart for God this Wednesday, I recalled two things I would have liked to share with you and so will offer as our weekly e-devotion this week. The two things I’d like to share relate to what ministered to me the most […]

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Don’t Try to Live By Bread Alone

November 26, 2014

For Lord’s Day, November 30, 2014 Dear Saints, While at a the Evangelical Theological Society’s annual conference last week, I was really challenged by some closing words by Dr. Miroslav Volf of Yale Divinity School that I’d like to share with you as we prepare for our Thanksgiving Day Service tomorrow and our weekly feeding […]

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Christ’s High Priestly Robe and His Unchangeable Priesthood

November 15, 2014

For Lord’s Day, November 16, 2014 (image source: Click Here) Dear Saints, While driving this morning, I was listening to a lecture by one of my professors about the priesthood of Christ as figuritively represented by the Old Testament high priest, especially his robe.  He spent a lot of time on Exodus 28 and the typology of the […]

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God Hinders Sin but Helps Obedience

October 11, 2014

For Lord’s Day, October 12, 2014 Dear Saints, Something stood out to me recently in the following verse: And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. (1 Chronicles 15:26) The bolded, underscored is a striking […]

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