Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! - 1 Chronicles 16:34 The Thanksgiving holiday has been with us here in America almost as long as our nation has existed. George Washington was the first president to recommend that...
One of my favorite preachers from the past is A.W. Tozer. Tozer was a Missionary Alliance pastor, a gifted writer, and a well-known preacher in the middle of the 20th century. He was a strong advocate for the "sacramental quality of everyday living." Tozer wanted Christian men and women to...
For this is the will of God, your sanctification. -1 Thessalonians 4:3 This Sunday we will take up the difficult topic of purity in our Life in the Church series. Our text will come from Hebrews 13:4: “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled...
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. -2 Timothy 3:16-17 God teaches us in the verses above that his word is sufficient for EVERY good...
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses… -Ephesians 1:7 Lately I have been asked more than once about the necessity of forgiving ourselves. This seems to be a common theme in many self-proclaimed Christian books that are on the market...
Here are some of my thoughts as a follow up to my message “Why We Worship” from last Sunday. Worship is an integral part of what we do as a church body and part of the reason why the church exists. It is, at least partly, through the practice of worship that we are built up and...
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 Before Jesus quoted this psalm from the cross, they were the words of the psalmist...
Last Sunday we opened a new series we have entitled “Life in the Church.” We bit off a bit of a chunk (no pun intended) with our first message dealing with the Lord’s Supper out of 1 Corinthians 11. The goal in this topical series is to address some matters that we do not get...
On Saturday, September 8th, I had the privilege of joining with six other members of LifePoint to travel to the South American country of Colombia for a week of evangelistic ministry in the city of Bogotá. Although I had been on a previous mission trip, it had not involved street...
For those of you who were able to be with us last Sunday evening to hear Andrew Sims share with us about his and his wife Anne’s work among the Ketengban and Lik peoples of Papua, Indonesia, I hope you were both encouraged and challenged. Andrew and Anne spent the weekend with Dedra and...
