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
7/11/2025 – Work Reimagined
Open in New Tab Here Work Reimagined I recently read a short but interesting article on AI and the future of work. In “Work Reimagined: How AI Could Usher in a New Age of Human Artisanship[1],” Pavan Muzumdar argues that AI just might be our avenue to more meaningful, creative,
7/2/2025 – True Freedom
Open in New Tab Here July 4th Devotional: True Freedom “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” – John 8:36 (ESV) As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we give thanks for the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. Yet, as believers, we’re reminded that our
6/21/2025
Open in new tab here 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Job 2:10 In the midst of severe suffering, Job answered his
6/13/2025 – Get in the Boat
Open in New Tab Here Get in the Boat Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side… Mark 6:45 During the years when I had the privilege of being an active elder at our church, I took what my Sunday School class must have
6/6/2025
Open in New Tab Here If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to
5/30/2025 – An Encouragement to Pray Psalm 139 (ESV)
Open in New Tab Here An Encouragement to Pray Psalm 139 (ESV) “My Swiss Army Knife for Life and Prayer” Sometimes we struggle to know how to pray, especially in moments of deep joy, sorrow, confusion, or fatigue. The words don’t come easily. That’s when Scripture becomes our framework, a steady guide,
5/16/2025 – The Fall of Spring
Open in New Tab Here The Fall of Spring While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. Gen. 8:22 Perhaps it is some failing of perception on my part, but I do not note so great an antagonism between the
5/10/2025
Open in New Tab Here “Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’” Genesis 2:18 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31a “This mystery is
5/2/2025
Open in New Tab Here The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. Proverbs 16:33 (esv) One hundred years ago the theory of quantum mechanics (QM), largely in the form we have today, was completed. As a result, this year has been declared
4/25/2025 – No Longer On the Outside Looking In
Open in New Tab Here No Longer On the Outside Looking In Have you ever been on the outside looking in, knowing that unseen wonders lay just beyond the barred door or locked gate? Back when I was in college, I had the privilege to study abroad. I spent most
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.
