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Richard Baxter on Validity of Government Forbidding Worship Assemblies in Times of Pestilence

April 4, 2020

For Lord’s Day, April 5, 2020 Dear Saints, This week’s e-devotion and preparation for Sabbath worship comes to us again via our brother Mike Delgado’s sleuthing.  I share below what he forwarded to me by Puritan Richard Baxter on whether there are times we may omit Sabbath worship if forbidden by the government (of course, […]

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Martin Luther’s “Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague” is Helpful to Meditate Upon Regarding Our Recent Move to Online Webcast Worship Services During the Coronavirus Pandemic

March 28, 2020

For Lord’s Day, March 29, 2020 Dear Saints, It has been a long time since I’ve done an e-devotion.  My apologies for that.  I’ve been working on one to share along with an online video which I’ve referenced in several sermons not long ago.  But I could use more time, and I just received a […]

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The Dignity of Deference

December 8, 2018

For Lord’s Day, December 9, 2018 Dear Saints, It has been a long time since I have been able to give proper attention to writing an e-devotional for you.  It likely will be a while before I can do so again.  But I was so impressed with something I heard on the radio this week […]

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Contentment is Quieting our Stormy Hearts in the Midst of our Storms

November 25, 2017

For the Lord’s Day, November 26, 2017 Dear Saints, We continue with our devotion through Jeremiah Burroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. The next thing he teaches us is that contentment is “a quiet frame of spirit”.  He explains: Methinks I feel my heart heavy and sad and more than it should be; yet my judgment is […]

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Contentment Disallows Murmuring Vexation

November 4, 2017

For Lord’s Day, November 5, 2017 Dear Saints, First, a reminder to turn back your clocks tonight for Daylight Saving Time tomorrow. We return to Jeremiah Burroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, as a follow-up to our Wednesday night lecture series with Thomas Watson’s, The Art of Divine Contentment. Each book has as its […]

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It is Very Christ-like to Lament and Learn Contentment

September 2, 2017

For Lord’s Day, September 3, 2017 Dear Saints, After a long hiatus, we return to our excerpts from Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. Let us be good students to learn and become master artists. Burroughs goes on to say that contentment, “is the quiet of the heart. All is sedate and still […]

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Paint a Better Picture

August 26, 2017

For the Lords’ Day, August 26, 2017 Dear Saints, We are so thankful to have returned from our 5-week trip to the Land Down Under!  We missed you terribly, and though we are still settling it is so goooooooooooood to be home! As you can imagine, I’ll be up late on sermons so I can’t […]

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