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Jonathan Edwards on the Psalms for Church Worship in All Ages

June 24, 2025

June 24, 2025 Dearly Beloved, Last Lord’s Day, during my morning sermon about the rejoicing which Deuteronomy 12 expresses as a theme and result of recovering God’s prescribed worship regulations, I shared a few excerpts from Jonathan Edwards’ book, The History of the Work of Redemption, in which he extols God’s giving His church the […]

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Invitation to Support World Relief SoCal

May 15, 2025

May 15, 2025 Dear Saints, I invite you to visit my personal “Stand in the Gap” fundraising page for World Relief SoCal and consider supporting our “Welcoming the Stranger” work in partnership with the Church in San Diego County! To participate, visit https://fundraise.worldrelief.org/fundraiser/6378661?is_new=true My goal is to raise $1,000 toward our WRSoCal $10,000 goal. Thank […]

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Dr. Alveda King (Dr. Martin Luther King’s Neice) on Her Civil Rights Work for the Unborn

November 2, 2024

Dear Saints, I just heard this interview on Family Radio driving home this evening. Wow! Dr. Alveda C. King (niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) shares about her work for the “civil rights for the unborn.” Her own story before and after the use of sonograms with her own pregnancies is striking and enlightening. […]

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Comfort for Christians Facing Death

July 6, 2024

Dear Saints, With the memorial service for Pastor Bell June 22, our sister Jan recently going on home hospice, and my father’s funeral coming up in NY for which I’m leaving this Monday, it has been profound providence to have received these various messages over the last few weeks that I will list and link […]

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The Word of God Alone Teaches Us About Our Creation Origins

May 19, 2024

Dear Saints, Anthony Selvaggio writes in his book, A Proverbs-Driven Life, “The Bible is nothing less than God’s impartation to us of everything we need to know on this earth about him, his ways, his purposes, his Son, and how we ought to live in relationship to him and to one another.”   So 2 […]

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Christians Are Those Who Accept Christ’s Authority by His Power

November 11, 2023

For Lord’s Day, November 12, 2023 Dear Saints, Bonse Aba, Mu Pokelela, Ba Lipele Maka Akuba Bana. Kuba Bana, Kuba Bana, Kuba Bana Baka Lesa. Muya Ya Ya, Muya Ya Ya, Muya Ya Ya, Bakwa Lesa. Don’t worry, I’m not “speaking in tongues!” 😉 I’m quoting a Zambian folk song that some of you heard […]

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Augustine’s Confessions: Wholeness in Christ

October 7, 2023

For Lord’s Day, October 8, 2023 Dear Saints, In our last devotion, we saw how Augustine began to come close to God by slowly losing hold of himself in sickness of himself until he came to the end of himself.  Next, in Book IX of his Confessions, he resigns from his worldly and important professorship […]

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