For Lord’s Day, August 25, 2013 (Image Source: www.wxyz.com) Dear Saints, I was blessed to read in my devotions recently the following verse: … ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s (1 Corinthians 3:23). It reminded me who I am and Whose I am. This knowledge identifies me. This knowledge defines my life. So it […]
For Lord’s Day, August 18, 2013 Dear Saints, Today, I was a little disappointed. I took a break from sermon preparation to inspect the several fruit trees in the manse’s backyard. I have been nursing several of them to health for the three years that we’ve been here, and keenly interested in their improvement and […]
For Lord’s Day, August 11, 2013 (Image Source: versaday.com) Dear Saints, One of our brothers from the East who (with his family) worshiped with us earlier this year while in San Diego on business recently shared this quote: “The reason why people complain so much of difficulty in duty is because their hearts are not […]
For Lord’s Day, August 4, 2013 (Image source: http://www.lsctc.org) Dear Saints, Not infrequently, we turn to Ephesians 4:22-24 for motivation on how to grow in grace and walk in the light: … put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit […]
For Lord’s Day, July 28, 2013 Dear Saints, At our Session meeting this week, Elder Paul Huffmaster shared some things God taught him during his six-week stay in bed with terrible back pain. I asked him to write what follows to share with you as this week’s e-devotion. I think it will help anyone who […]
For Lord’s Day, July 21, 2013 Dear Saints, I just watched a movie recommended to me, called The Letter Writer. While I’d have a few minor theological disclaimers, it was a sweet movie in which the young leading lady lived out a transformation of what seemed to be the movie’s main moral, repeated several times in […]
Dear Saints, Mindful of the recent sermon, “Be Prepared”, Jennifer and I have been reading through a book we’ve been meaning to for some time, written by a lady we are acquainted with in the RPCNA. Dr. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield’s book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into Christian Faith […]