Dear Saints, I got some disappointing news this week from my previous boss at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (where I also graduated). A major accomplishment we had long labored on together will likely become nullified due to some sad news that is out of our control. An estate plan that was to endow a […]
Read More »Dear Saints, We celebrate the Lord’s Supper tomorrow evening. Please prepare your souls with these thoughts from Gordon J. Keddie in his book, The Lord’s Supper is a Celebration of Grace: “There is nothing more miserable in the life of the church than a cold, dead use of the means of grace … We must grasp […]
Read More »Dear Saints, In this Wednesday Night’s study on Revelation 2:1-7, in which we saw that Jesus condemns the Church of Ephesus for losing its first love for Him (which ultimately killed their local church), we were challenged to love God more, especially in how we approach Him in worship together to hear Him speak through […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, August 19, 2012 Dearly Beloved, Are you upside down or right side up? I was thinking about this question today with the world and myself and the Church related to the following verse: And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, […]
Read More »(For Lord’s Day, August 26, 2012, weekly church email devotion) Dear Saints, I was listening to some sermons through the Gospel of Mark by Pastor Jeff Stivason this week, and one point particularly impressed me. He said something to the effect of not fearing man, but God, for we serve whom we fear. This is a paraphrase of […]
Read More »(For September 2, 2012 weekly email church devotion) Dear Saints, This Lord’s Day, we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper after the evening service. In preparation for the Supper, I’d like to encourage us all to reflect on the “horizontal” aspect of this heavenly meal; that is, fellowship between each of us in the presence of […]
Read More »(For September 9, 2012 midweek church email devotion) Dear Saints, I’d like to share a quote with you by R. Kent Hughes in his book, Disciplines of a Godly Man: “We are to be totally absorbed with Jesus. He is to fill our skies like the morning sunrise. He is to be our high noon and […]
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