Be Ready to Properly Approach the LORD
For Lord’s Day, March 2, 2014 Dear Saints, The powerful winds and rain today had to get your attention. You’d have to be dead not to be moved by such a storm; let it drive your attention to the LORD…
Sanctification – Growing in Grace
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Good Works are Good
For Lord’s Day, January 5, 2014 Dear Saints, In Sabbath Class last week, we in part studied chapter 16 of the Westminster Confession of Faith, “Of Good Works”. I pointed out that too many Protestant Evangelicals today live out the…
The Way We Were and Who We Are
For Lord’s Day, December 8, 2013 Dear Saints, In her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: an english professor’s journey into christian faith, Dr. Rosaria Butterfield compares her Christian conversion experience to “an alien abduction or a train…
Little Bits of Holy Things the Way to Major Holiness
For Lord’s Day, December 1, 2013 Dear Saints, I have something big to share with you today; but it is packaged in little things. First, the title of a new Thanksgiving sermon on SermonAudio caught my eye recently: “Proud People…
Simple Faith and a Quiet Heart
For Lord’s Day, November 24, 2013 (Image source: ) Dear Saints, If you’re like me, you often need your soul soothed with Gospel assurance. Here is a quote by A.W. Pink from my recent studies with his Gleanings in Exodus…
Of Cockroaches and Christians
For Lord’s Day, November 17, 2013 [Image source: ] Dear Saints, I have been meditating on how there are basically two stark and opposite responses to the Gospel message of repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ…
Practicing Patience Makes Patience More Perfect
For Lord’s Day, November 3, 2013 Dear Saints, Arrghhhh!!!!! That’s what came out of my mouth on a Monday morning recently, with my head in my hands. Somehow, I mistakenly deleted my morning sermon that I had put up on…
A Merry Heart Can Make Things Peachy Keen
For Lord’s Day, August 18, 2013 Dear Saints, Today, I was a little disappointed. I took a break from sermon preparation to inspect the several fruit trees in the manse’s backyard. I have been nursing several of them to health…
Prepare to be Holy
For Lord’s Day, August 11, 2013 (Image Source: versaday.com) Dear Saints, One of our brothers from the East who (with his family) worshiped with us earlier this year while in San Diego on business recently shared this quote: “The reason…
Put on Christ Himself
For Lord’s Day, August 4, 2013 (Image source: ) Dear Saints, Not infrequently, we turn to Ephesians 4:22-24 for motivation on how to grow in grace and walk in the light: … put off concerning the former conversation the old…
Secrets of Sanctification
Dear Saints, Mindful of the recent sermon, “Be Prepared”, Jennifer and I have been reading through a book we’ve been meaning to for some time, written by a lady we are acquainted with in the RPCNA. Dr. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield’s…
God Corrects and Then Affirms
For Lord’s Day, June 23, 2013 (Photo source: www.lordscountrysticks.com) Last week, we saw that Moses was corrected by God for making constant excuses against obeying Him. It got to the point where God got angry. And while He made some…