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 […]
Read More »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” […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, November 17, 2013 [Image source: http://www.mycleaningproducts.com/blog/2177/roach-guide-tip-and-tricks-to-kill-roaches-safe-and-quick/] Dear Saints, I have been meditating on how there are basically two stark and opposite responses to the Gospel message of repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21); especially, the first side of the coin, repentance (a commitment to turn away […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, November 3, 2013 Dear Saints, Arrghhhh!!!!! That’s what came out of my mouth on a Monday morning recently, with my head in my hands. Somehow, I mistakenly deleted my morning sermon that I had put up on our SermonAudio page early so folks who were home-bound on the Lord’s Day could listen […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, October 20, 2013 Dear Saints, When my family recently volunteered for the annual Creation & Earth History Museum Day in Santee at the end of September, we had the opportunity to listen to an opening ceremony message by the museum’s patron, Mr. Tom Cantor. He shared about how on September 28, 1928, […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, October 13, 2013 (image source: http://www.123rf.com/photo_4123116_broken-heart.html) Dear Saints, This Lord’s Day evening, we will finish the Westminster Larger Catechism’s attention to the sixth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill” (Ex. 20:13). In my recent studies, there were a few quotes that I thought would be very helpful to meditate on as it relates […]
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