For Lord’s Day, May 12, 2013 Dear Saints, Jennifer and I are about to leave a two-day home schooling conference in Escondido held by Christian Family Schools of San Diego County. We have a lot of great general life and parenting wisdom nuggets I’d like to share with you, and I plan to do so […]
For Lord’s Day April 28, 2013 Dear Saints, What is “Baca”? That’s what one of my daughter’s asked after singing Psalm 84 together this week in family worship. I have often meant to look it up, and so we did. What a nugget we mined together! As this Psalm was our Psalm of the month […]
For Lord’s Day April 21, 2013 Dear Saints, As Elder Huffmaster’s Sabbath class is taking us through John MacArthur’s book on worry, Anxious for Nothing, and as I will be preaching this Lord’s Day evening on one of the book’s main texts we regularly revisit during his class, Matthew 6:31-34, I would like to encourage […]
For Lord’s Day, April 21, 2013 Dear Saints, In my personal devotions this morning, something stood out to me I’ve found beneficial to meditate on today that I hope you too will find meaningful. In John 6:38, Jesus says, “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of […]
For Lord’s Day April 14, 2013. Dear Saints, In preparation study for sermons the next few weeks on the heart of the fourth commandment, I was very challenged by Chuck Baynard’s commentary on the Westminster Larger Catechism regarding its sections guiding our present evening sermons. It’s one of those kind of readings where I am […]
For Lord’s Day, April 7, 2013 Dear Saints, As we prepare to partake of the Lord’s Supper tomorrow evening, I want to challenge us to check and prepare our disposition with this comment from Geerhardus Vos (father of J.G. whose Commentary on the Westminster Larger Catechism you’ll often hear me quoting): “Jeremiah complains [2.9-11] that […]
For Lord’s Day, March 31, 2013 Dear Saints, Last week in the evening, we considered the second part of the Westminster Larger Catechism Q&A 117 about preparing for the Lord’s Day to properly sanctify it and the Lord in our hearts. This week in the evening, we will look at Q&A 118 and the responsibility […]