(Image source: http://www.sevenquotes.com/contentment-is-not-the-fulfillment/contentment/) For Lord’s Day, June 15, 2014 Dear Saints, In the morning service last Lord’s Day, we learned that we must respect our authorities as those God has set over us to represent His own rule over us. Vern Poythress writes something in his book, The Shadow of Christ […]
For Lord’s Day, June 8, 2014 Dear Saints, Last Sabbath morning’s sermon on Exodus 22:21-27, “Care for the Poor”, had a stark warning about how God would personally and severely reward those who take advantage of the defenseless. It reminded me of something I had intended to share with you when we began the first case laws for the […]
For Lord’s Day, May 24, 2014 Dear Saints, There is a song getting a lot of airplay on the Christian radio that my family and I have enjoyed singing along to while driving lately, and the refrain has been on my mind a lot with where God is bringing both sermons (and even the bulletin quote) […]
For Lord’s Day, May 18, 2014 [Source of image: http://o5.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/child-praying.jpg] Dear Saints, My Mother and I recently hunted for treasures at the East Lake Goodwill’s large book section. I uncovered a vein of gold which I know many of you have already been mining for years at great personal profit, Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening (in […]
For Lord’s Day, April 13, 2014 Dear Saints, If I may get a little ahead of where we are in our Sabbath Class with Elder Huffmaster on John MacArthur’s book, Anxious for Nothing, two nuggets on getting through suffering patiently were really helpful for our family this week, which I want to encourage you to make […]
For Lord’s Day, March 30, 2014 Dear Saints, Tomorrow in our morning worship, the text will be Exodus 20:18-22, where Moses says in verse 20 that God caused His people to fear Him in such a way as to reverently produce holy living, which he defines as “not sinning”. Understood positively, “not sinning” is to […]
For Lord’s Day, March 23, 2014 Dear Saints, We continue with the second table of the Moral Law this Lord’s Day morning. As we had taken note together, our evening service that same day on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a was a providential segue from the first four to the last six commandments. This week, a reading […]