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 […]
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 […]
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 […]