12/16/2022 – Blessed Mystery
Open in New Tab Here Blessed Mystery I Cor. 15:51-53 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
12/9/2022-An Inheritance of Grace
Open in New Tab Here An Inheritance of Grace Josh 18:4 4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again
12/2/2022
Open in New Tab Here 14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. Proverbs 13:14 (ESV) Angus Barbieri fasted for 382 days. During his fast, the Scotsman ate only yeast, electrolytes, vitamins, and beverages. (1) While humans
11/25/2022-Painful Thankful
Open in New Tab Here Painful Thankful Thankfulness is the feeling or expression of gratitude for something done for us. We know this well. But what can be more challenging is the mindset of being thankful in all circumstances. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for
11/18/2022-Without Hope and Without Faith
Open in New Tab Here Without Hope and Without Faith Heb. 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Rom. 8:24 …Now hope that is seen is not hope… I Cor. 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but
11/5/2022-From our Head to our Feet
Open in New Tab Here From our Head to our Feet Our Wednesday evening studies of Amos have engendered some lively discussion as to how the people of God are to rightly put a proper theology into daily, Godly living. Whether we are experiencing God’s abundant provision or a time
10/28/2022- A Parting Prayer
Open in New Tab Here A Parting Prayer John 17:9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. The earthly path of our Savior is near an end and has led to this place.
10/22/2022-Don’t Waste Being Woke!
Open in New Tab Here Don’t Waste Being Woke! What a week we have had! I have been awakened spiritually and I trust you have too. What I mean to say, is don’t waste being awake! Specifically at the times that you don’t desire to be. Maybe it is that
10/14/2022
Open in New Tab Here 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever. Revelation 22:4-5 (ESV) Today
10/7/2022-Simply Above
Open in New Tab Here Simply Above I have been looking forward to the upcoming missions conference and hearing about preaching the gospel to all different peoples and cultures. As such, I have been thinking a lot about the contrast of the gospel with the wisdom the world presses on
9/30/2022-Just Lot
Open in New Tab Here Just Lot! 2 Pet 2:6-7 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot… (KJV) Our verse speaks of a terrible judgment.
9/23/2022-Just and Justifier
Open in New Tab Here Just and Justifier Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human
9/16/2022-The Inversion
Open in New Tab Here The Inversion You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? — Isaiah
9/9/2022-Power and Its Limitations
Open in New Tab Here Power and Its Limitations Dan 3:25 25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. (KJV) This verse conveys
9/2/2022
Open in New Tab Here As we approach the Labor Day Holiday, I am reminded to be grateful for work. Yes, that’s right, I will rest and relax on Labor Day while reflecting on the God given gift of work. After all, God created us to work (Genesis 2:15) and
08/26/2022
Open in New Tab Here 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11 (ESV) 21 And the Lord God made
08/12/2022 – Almost Home
Open in a New Tab Here Almost Home Heb. 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. KJV There is something in every person that inclines them to love of country. The familiarity of circumstance soothes. Predictability comforts the soul. The oft-heard noises in
8/5/2024 – Witnesses from the Cloud
Open in New Tab Here Witnesses from the Cloud Whether it be from the pulpit or through our Wednesday night study this past year, we have heard the regular call from the book of Hebrews to endure to the end as our faith is challenged. We are encouraged to, “run
7/29/2022 – The Living God
Open in a New Tab Here The Living God Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him. — Luke 20:38 Life is truly amazing! On a personal level, each individual life should bring us to a sense of wonder and awe
7/22/2022
Open in New Tab Here Beloved Bereans, Changes abound in our lives. Even during seasons of perceived stability changes are ever around us. Some things come about by surprise and others we can watch slowly evolve. If you have lived for a bit, you have certainly learned to negotiate change.
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
