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 […]
Dear Saints, Do you want to get a job? Keep your job? Advance in your job? Increase your pay? Improve your benefits? Receive favor by your boss and work well with your co-workers? Over the last two weeks, the Westminster Larger Catechism sermon series (Q&A’s 127-128) has instructed us how to do this. Below is […]
For Lord’s Day, June 23, 2013 (Photo source: www.lordscountrysticks.com) Last week, we saw that Moses was corrected by God for making constant excuses against obeying Him. It got to the point where God got angry. And while He made some concessions, God did not let Moses off the hook. He told him not to forget […]
Dear Saints, I received an e-newsletter this week from Stand to Reason that I thought would be good to send to you all as this week’s e-devotion, as it relates very well to the evening series we’ve begun in the Westminster Larger Catechism related to the fifth commandment (started before my vacation with the […]
For Lord’s Day, May 19, 2013 Dear Saints, You might remember a really helpful nugget I shared in a sermon a while back from Pastor Jeff Stivason about Peter’s triple denial of Jesus Christ in the Gospels before the cock crowed. Peter wept bitterly, of course. Pastor Jeff pointed out that every time Peter would […]