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Be Kind

July 15, 2022

Dear Saints, Our morning sermon this Lord’s Day will be on being “kind” and showing “kindness” with studies of these words in the Hebrew and Greek, and our featured text being the command in Ephesians 4:32: “ … be ye kind …”. At times, I like to search quotes and illustrations on a topic from […]

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Be the Boss of Your Body (Avoid Gluttony, Actively Exercise)

April 17, 2022

For Lord’s Day, April 17, 2022 Dear Saints, In One Thousand Evangelical Illustrations (Webb), Albert Barnes wrote: “Neglect is enough to ruin a man … A man who is lying on a bed of sickness need not cut his throat to destroy himself ; he has only to neglect the means of restoration, and he […]

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Let Us Love to Learn Well

April 10, 2022

For Lord’s Day, April 10, 2022 Dear Saints, After Rachel and I enjoyed a light breakfast at a cafe on the Southwestern College campus a few months ago, I walked her to class on a beautiful brisk morning looking out through a gorgeous courtyard framing Mount Miguel.  Along the way, I noticed a banner on […]

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Forgiven to Love and Serve

April 2, 2022

For the Lord’s Day, April 3, 2022 Dear Saints, In preparation for both sermons tomorrow, I’d like to share the following stories with you (from Aquilla Webb’s One Thousand Evangelistic Illustrations): Forgiving Mercy Many years ago in Russia a regiment of troops mutinied.  They were at some distance from the capital, and were so furious […]

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Behold the Birds and be Blessed!

February 28, 2022

For Lord’s Day, March 6, 2022 Dear Saints, Today, I was reminded of the following Scripture by two little friends toying with me outside the window of the church’s copier room while I was making bulletins: Matthew 6:26: Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into […]

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Have Christ’s Zeal for God’s House

January 21, 2022

For Lord’s Day, January 23, 2022 Dear Saints, Last Lord’s Day during our Sabbath Class going through the DVD entitled, “Puritan: All of Life to the Glory of God,” we studied the Puritans on “zeal” as an important aspect of vital Christianity. I wanted to share what I had recently read by Thomas Watson about Christian […]

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Love of God’s Law and Sabbath Day Worship

October 8, 2021

For the Lord’s Day, October 10, 2021 Dear Saints, Finally, by God’s grace, I am preparing to come back to our exegetical sermon series (in the morning, Deuteronomy, in the evening, Philippians).  Thus, in this Lord’s Day’s morning service we will be returning to where we left off in Deuteronomy, The 10 Commandments (specifically, the […]

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