4/18/2025 – Sittin’ Under a Tin Roof During a Spring Rain
Sittin’ Under a Tin Roof During a Spring Rain Isaiah 4:6 ESV “There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.” I was born in the little community of Oak Grove, Tennessee, before Roosevelt’s TVA Project was
4/8/2025 – Love Spelled T-I-M-E
Open in New Tab Here Love Spelled T-I-M-E “Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”, 1 John 3:18 (NIV) In a world full of distractions, it’s easy to say “I love you” without backing it up with action. But for many, especially those
3/28/2025
Open in New Tab Here 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in
3/14/2025 – Movin’ On Up
Open in New Tab Here Movin’ On Up Now the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. Genesis 12:1 ESV My sweet wife and I had a long talk this week. The subject was one that was entirely new
3/7/2025
Open in New Tab Here In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25 I came across a popular article a couple of weeks ago about how uncontacted, remote people groups are at risk of dying off because of
2/28/2025
2 Corinthians 12: 7 “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should
2/21/2025 – The Value of Things
Open in New Tab Here The Value of Things I Cor. 7:23 You were bought with a price… I have paid $14 for a new men’s Summer suit. I have filled my gas tank with fuel costing 11 cents per gallon. Old people are alleged to have developed, during their
2/14/2025 – Ancestry 101
Open in New Tab Here Ancestry 101 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus being the cornerstone, Ephesians 2: 19, 20
2/7/2025
Open in New Tab Here 3 And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me
1/31/2025
Open in New Tab Here You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore Psalm 16:11 (ESV) In the car on Wednesday, I caught a small part of an interview with Derek Thompson, a writer
1/24/2025 – So Much Sin, So Much Grace
Open in New Tab Here So Much Sin, So Much Grace Have you contemplated how much God is sinned against? This question has been swimming around my head over the past several months. My contemplation has had less to do with a morbid fascination over how sinful I am and
1/17/2025 – The Day Draweth Toward Evening
Open in New Tab Here The Day Draweth Toward Evening Judges 19:9 9…Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that thou
1/10/2025 – From Advent to Epiphany
Open in New Tab Here From Advent to Epiphany If you’re like me, with a liturgical background rooted in the church calendar, you notice that we are now celebrating or observing the time of the Epiphany. What’s that you say? Epiphany: The word epiphany simply means “manifestation,” and the holiday Epiphany (or Three
12/27/2024
Open in New Tab Here “Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? ……….” Job 1:10a With this question, the Serpent continues the assault on God’s character, he starts with the question: “Does Job fear God for no reason?”. But, these
12/21/2024 – O Emmanuel
Open in New Tab Here O Emmanuel O come, O come, Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear. Rejoice, Rejoice Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel There is something about a good old hymn to usher in Christmas. Even
12/13/2024 – A Joyful Christmas
Open in New Tab Here A Joyful Christmas Luke 2:10 KJV: And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. If my father were still living, he would be 118 years old. He was one of
12/6/2024
… an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. –Luke 2:9 This is such a glorious time of year! As we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is inevitable (and appropriate)
11/28/2024
Open in New Tab Here Psalm 100:4-5: “Enter His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name; good indeed is the Lord, His mercy endures forever, His faithfulness lasts through every generation” As we come to this day of giving thanks for the goodness
11/22/2024-Being Thankful in Spite of the Lion’s Success
Open in New Tab Here Being Thankful in Spite of the Lion’s Success 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 ESV It may say something dark about me, but I have never been more than
11/8/2024
Open in New Tab Here 9 Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Job 1:9 For a long time now I have been fascinated with the questions found in the book of Job. I have determined to consider these questions one by one as I
2/13/2026 – The Eternal Weight of Glory
Open in New Tab Here The Eternal Weight of Glory (thoughts from 2 Corinthians Ch 4) Life can be terribly weighty sometimes, can’t it? Whether it is the weight of sin, the struggle of ministry, fighting a cancer diagnosis, wrestling with disobedient children, or just waiting for an answer that
10/11/2025
Open in New Tab Here In our Sunday School class, we are in the middle of a few-week series on answering some of life’s big existential questions with a goal of engaging the lost with gospel hope. Grouped into five “big questions” we see scripture reveal Christ as the answer
10/3/2025 – Playing All Four Quarters
Open in New Tab Here “Playing All Four Quarters” “Alright team, let’s bring it in.” You know, when you watch the Detroit Lions, one thing’s clear: you can’t win a game by playing just one good quarter. You have to play all four quarters. And that’s true in our walk
9/19/2025 – How Would You Like Your Change?
Open in New Tab Here How Would You Like Your Change? Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. James 1:17 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and
9/12/2025
Open in New Tab Here Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 4 Your words have upheld him who
8/22/2025 – Trying to Find the Words
Open in New Tab Here 9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— I Cor. 2:9 In 1962, The World’s Fair came to Seattle. It was such a big deal that even
8/15/2025 – If We Loved Like Jesus
Open in New Tab Here The song, I Can Only Imagine, invites us to picture the day when we stand face-to-face with Jesus, surrounded by His perfect love, free from sin, pain, and division. But what if we didn’t have to wait for heaven to taste that love? What if
8/1/2025
Open in New Tab Here 11 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?……. Job 3:11-12 16 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the
7/25/2025 – Traveling Light
Open in New Tab Here Traveling Light 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord. Genesis 13:18 KJV Next month, Jackie and I will have been married 65 years. We are both closer now to
7/19/2025
Open in New Tab Here And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the
