For Lord’s Day, January 19, 2014 Dear Saints, I have been very blessed recently by listening to and meditating on Michael Card’s song, “Know You in the Now”. It has come to mind with our sermon texts for the Lord’s Day tomorrow. Here are some of the lyrics: We should confess We lose You in […]
For Lord’s Day, January 5, 2014 Dear Saints, In Sabbath Class last week, we in part studied chapter 16 of the Westminster Confession of Faith, “Of Good Works”. I pointed out that too many Protestant Evangelicals today live out the Roman Catholic caricature; that is, sinful living and neglect of good works will be the […]
For Lord’s Day, December 21, 2013 Dear Saints, As most of you are likely well aware by now, Phil Robertson — the patriarch of A&E’s Cable program “Duck Dynasty”, has been suspended from the program indefinitely because of his “coarse” remarks against homosexuality. It is the latest talk show controversy fodder. I have never seen […]
For Lord’s Day, December 15, 2013 Dear Saints, In the video Elder Renner began to share with us on Wednesday, Monumental, we learned about how the Pilgrims left our nation a monument so that we would remember how our nation will be great for our posterity; that is, by having Christ as our King: Blessed is […]
For Lord’s Day, December 8, 2013 Dear Saints, In her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: an english professor’s journey into christian faith, Dr. Rosaria Butterfield compares her Christian conversion experience to “an alien abduction or a train wreck.” As she shares about her very public “coming out” as a Christian while a […]
For Lord’s Day, December 1, 2013 Dear Saints, I have something big to share with you today; but it is packaged in little things. First, the title of a new Thanksgiving sermon on SermonAudio caught my eye recently: “Proud People Don’t Say Thanks”. Either way you slice it, “Look at Me” or “Woe is Me” […]
For Lord’s Day, November 24, 2013 (Image source: http://www.aquietheart.com/) Dear Saints, If you’re like me, you often need your soul soothed with Gospel assurance. Here is a quote by A.W. Pink from my recent studies with his Gleanings in Exodus that is worth resting upon in meditation: “Nothing but simple faith in an accomplished atonement […]