For the Lord’s Day, September 24, 2023 Dear Saints, A while back I was saving up some quotes I highlighted out of Augustine’s Confessions for potential topical sermon ideas. Well, I lost my idea of what I was thinking of doing with them all collected in a document on my desktop for nearly twelve months by […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, September 17, 2023 Dear Saints, Recently during our Wednesday night studies of the sixth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, the second half, “But Deliver Us from Evil,” with the Puritan Thomas Watson, we reviewed 13 means to use to be kept from the acts of sin. I’d like to review number seven, […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, February 25, 2023, Dear Saints, A few weeks ago, I was nudging Gabriel along in the Church parking lot to get more used to riding his big boy bike with training wheels. He took a while to let it take, as he kept insisting he was quite content with his little boy […]
Read More »For the Lord’s Day, December 3, 2022 Dear Saints, This Wednesday night we finished Ligonier Ministries’ Reformation 500 video series with a final Q&A panel discussion. Something in the end of the video, as you know, surprisingly rang out to me. And it was this: “What about today? What is the biggest threat to Christianity […]
Read More »For Lord’s Day, November 26, 2022 Dear Saints, As I have just entered the 13th year of ministry with you this month and very recently began reading through a book historically important to my second ministry employer, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, entitled, Here We Stand! A Call from Confessing Evangelicals for a Modern Reformation, […]
Read More »For Lords’ Day, October 8, 2022 Dear Saints, First, let me rejoice with you that Abraham Van Leuven met with Session this week to review his fully completed Membership Class test and discuss his hearty desire to graduate to communicant membership during morning worship tomorrow. God is faithful! Praise the Lord. Pray that Abe’s first […]
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