I have occasionally shared with the church family what I am currently reading, not in an attempt to say “look what I’m up to” but to encourage you to be reading good books and to provide some ideas for those who may be beginning readers (or continuing readers who also...
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions… - 2 Timothy 4:3 The line between truth and error is often very thin. I recall some years ago...
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. –Acts...
I feel inadequate to do this task with justice, as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path. -Eusebius of Caesarea Much of what we know today about the history of the early church (outside of Scripture) is owed to the tireless work of a...
As our family has been preparing for the next step in our journey to Cameroon, we have shared our story and our plans with a lot of people and answered a lot of questions about what lies ahead. Many people are curious about the Baka, among whom we will live and serve. Others are...
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. -Psalm 22:1-2 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice!...
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. -1 Corinthians 6:11 The passage above is Paul's finishing touch on his statement that "the unrighteous will not inherit...
"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own, you were bought at a price...
One of my favorite poets is a woman of whom many have never heard. Her name is Charlotte Elliott, and she lived a life that can teach us quite a bit about God and the mystery of our lives. When Charlotte was a young woman living in Clapham, England, a travelling evangelist by the name of...
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Jesus Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. –1 Corinthians 5:7 I am looking forward to worshipping with those of you who will be in town during Easter weekend. The Good Friday service...
