For Lord’s Day, March 24, 2013 Dear Saints, During this Wednesday Night’s study on Revelation 8:1-6, entitled “Pray without Ceasing”, we saw a vivid vision of Christ’s mediatorial role in receiving and answering our prayers, and a great encouragement to be prayer warriors. God executes His eternal decrees by Jesus Christ and through the prayers […]
For Lord’s Day, March 17, 2013 Dear Saints, For this week’s devotion, I’d like to share one of a number of Pastor Jeff Stivason’s emails to his congregation this week preparing them for the Lord’s Supper. His message equally prepares them for celebrating the Lord’s Day more broadly, which is the focus of our evening […]
For Lord’s Day, March 10, 2013 Dear Saints It is wonderful to see so many of you support in various ways our church’s participation of the Walk for Life today at Chollas Park to show we want to help bring an East County Pregnancy Care Center satellite clinic to our South Bay area. In thinking […]
For Lord’s Day, March 3, 2013 Dear Saints, Why do we cry? We cry when something hurts either on the outside or on the inside so much that it has overwhelmed us to the point of expressing our deep need for relief. May we be struck to the heart by the cry of the Lord […]
Dear Saints, This week, I heard a sermon by a fine, nationally known Reformed pastor, in which he said several times something like, “Holy smoke”, and it was a euphemism, not an exultation of prayer or praise. Frankly, after our recent evening studies in the Westminster Larger Catechism (which he subscribes to) teaching us about […]
For Lord’s Day, February 24, 2013 Dear Saints, When you fall short of your goals, especially spiritually and morally as a Christian, how do you handle your setbacks? Let me encourage you to set up your next shot. What do I mean? In his book, Love and Respect, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs talks about the […]
For Lord’s Day, February 17, 2013 Dear Saints, The heat hasn’t worked all week at the manse, so we had someone stop by Friday afternoon to take a look. It’s now fixed, although thankfully God has made the weather warm again, so we don’t presently need the heater (this is really February, right!?). It was […]