I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. -Psalm 119:11 I have occasionally shared in this weekly “Jym Shorts” article what my daily disciplines are in Scripture. I do this not to impress you, particularly since it isn’t all...
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. –Mark Twain I turned fifty-four years old last week. When my father was fifty-four...
Last Sunday evening Pastor Nate Meece walked those of us who gathered for our Sunday evening worship/teaching time through the history of the Creed of Nicaea. He placed the creed in its historical context and shared with us some of the champions of the orthodox faith who helped form the...
Do you ever wonder where faith leaves off and doubt enters in? The book of Daniel tells the story of three friends, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael. These young men were whisked away from their families, home land, and everything they knew around 600 B.C. by the invading...
…things we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from the children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has...
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, and all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness. ...
"A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer Advent is about anticipation. Like almost all American children, I...
During this season of Advent we celebrate/anticipate the Incarnation, the singular event by which a loving God sent to us his Son, who, for us and our salvation, assumed our humanity and dwelt among us. The same Son of God who created Adam did not abandon his loving purpose for his...
Love can forbear, and love can forgive...but love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object. God can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but he may be reconciled to your person, because that may be...
Occasionally someone will ask me my thoughts on some new preacher, teacher or author who has become popular. I’m not the most up-to-date person when it comes to new events in the American church, but when I am aware, and feel I have adequate information with which to share an...
