7/21/2023-Awaiting a Better Day
Open in New Tab Here Awaiting a Better Day 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Rev. 21:4 On Tuesday mornings a mostly elderly group of Berean
7/14/2023
Open in New Tab Here 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8 (ESV) As I set out to write the pastoral encouragement, I thought
7/7/2023
Open in New Tab Here How are we supposed to live while we wait for Christ to return? This was essentially the subject of our Sunday school class last week as we unpacked 1 Peter 4:7-11. The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
6/23/2023-Simplification
Open in New Tab Here Simplification “But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” Acts 3:6 About one week after Jacquelynne and I married we put everything that we owned in our 1956 Mercury and
6/16/2023-Love Math
Open in New Tab Here Love Math Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and
6/9/2023-Yours is the Day
Open in New Tab Here Yours is the Day “Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.” (Psalm 74:16-17.) The Psalmist is crying out about the breadth of God’s power in
6/2/2023
Open in New Tab Here 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves
5/26/2023- Brothers
Open in New Tab Here BROTHERS 10 The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. ESV Psalm 90:10 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ESV John 11:23 The scripture (Psalm 90)
5/19/2023- What a friend we have in Jesus!
Open in a New Tab Here What a friend we have in Jesus! How did you respond when you read that sentence? Did it sweep you back in time like it did for me, back to my childhood church singing along with Mr. Nelson’s booming voice as he led our congregation through the hymn by
5/12/2023
Open in New Tab Here Molly and I just returned from a trip to the UK to visit our son and his family. They moved there last summer as part of a church planting team in the town of Bakewell. While there, we took a day trip by train to York to tour this historic
