Dear Saints, Last week in our evening sermon with Philippians 2:12-13, we saw that, We Will Work Out God’s Will by His Working in Us Something that Rachel brought up regarding the Greek word for work, “energize”, in verse 13…
For Lord’s Day, May 2, 2021 Dear Saints, I am planning and preparing to return to Philippians for our evening sermons this Lord’s Day. We left off with Christ’s incredible self-humiliation. But we will see next that His reward is…
Dear Saints, As you know, I’m up in the mountains on respite with the children and will not be able to vote tomorrow for the next president of the United States of America. Frankly, I’m disgusted with the candidate options, and if…
For Lord’s Day, June 5, 2016 Dear Saints, Jennifer and I recently came across a video (shared below) that I mentioned to you in passing in last week’s evening sermon on the qualifications for elders. There I reminded us that…
Image Source: (Photo by Raymond Watson). For the Lord’s Day, October 4, 2015 Dear Saints, As I’ve been preparing to preach Psalm 23 in the evening services of October, I’ve been reading a number of books by pastors who had also…
For Lord’s Day, September 20, 2015 Dear Saints, I have not had time to write a weekly e-devotion lately, but today I thought I’d share with you some photos of a special moment we captured while Jennifer and I enjoyed…
For Lord’s Day, July 19, 2015 Dear Saints, Before I put J.G. Vos’ Westminster Larger Catechism commentary back on the shelves, I thumbed through its pages for review and came across these statements that seemed quite poignant for the times…
For Lord’s Day, June 28, 2015 Dear Saints, With the egregious Supreme Court decision about gay marriage now forced upon our land, here are a few things to be thinking about. First, while some of the rhetoric of the LGBT…
For Lord’s Day, February 22, 2015 Dear Saints, In Exodus 32-33, we have seen God’s frightening judgment upon horrible, idolatrous (and adulterous) sin. And we have learned that our repentance is the only means of being restored to the LORD…
For the Lord’s Day, February 15, 2015 Dear Saints, Last Lord’s Day evening, we were reminded to approach God in worship and during the Lord’s Supper with reverent attention: Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us…