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Sanctification - Growing in Grace

For Lord’s Day, March 8, 2015 Dear Saints, Physical trainer Steve Conley says: “I live by this quote: ‘If you want something you never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.’” This is such a great “proverb” to…

God's Sovereignty, Grace and Mercy, Worship

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…

God's Sovereignty, Identity, Lord's Supper, Worship

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…

God's Sovereignty, Leadership

For Lord’s Day, February 8, 2015 Dear Saints, It’s another tough Scripture to look at tomorrow as we continue hearing about the terrible Golden Calf incident at the foot of Mount Sinai (Ex. 32:15-25). We will see the need for…

Lord's Supper, Worship

For Lord’s Day, February 1, 2015 Dear Saints, Led by the Westminster Larger Catechism in the evening sermons, we have been considering the need to examine ourselves and prepare our hearts for proper worship and partaking of the Lord’s Supper.…

Love, Parenting

For Lord’s Day, January 25, 2015 Dear Saints, In his chapter on the doctrine of adoption, Dr. R.C. Sproul writes: The great lie of Satan is that if you really love a child, you won’t discipline him. In fact, normal discipline…

God's Sovereignty, Lord's Supper, The Lord's Day, Worship

For Lord’s Day, January 18, 2015 [Photo source: ] Dear Saints, Thomas Watson writes, “There is no receiving a crucified Christ but to a consecrated heart.” Watson is speaking to the vital need of preparing ourselves properly for our effectual taking of the Lord…

Contentment, Fear and Worry, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

(Image source: ) For Lord’s Day, January 4, 2015 Dear Saints, Happy New Year! As we prepare to worship together for the first time in the two thousand and fifthteenth year of our Lord, it is always helpful to renew ourselves…

Parenting

For Lord’s Day, December 28, 2014 Dear Saints, I have some very happy news to share with you as I have recently been given clearance by Mr. Allie to “go public” with some family news to further inform your prayers…

Contentment, Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty

For Lord’s Day, December 6, 2014 Dear Saints, In our study of Sinclair Ferguson’s A Heart for God this Wednesday, I recalled two things I would have liked to share with you and so will offer as our weekly e-devotion this…

Gratitude

For Lord’s Day, November 30, 2014 Dear Saints, While at a the Evangelical Theological Society’s annual conference last week, I was really challenged by some closing words by Dr. Miroslav Volf of Yale Divinity School that I’d like to share…

Grace and Mercy, Justification, Typology

For Lord’s Day, November 16, 2014 (image source: Click Here) Dear Saints, While driving this morning, I was listening to a lecture by one of my professors about the priesthood of Christ as figuritively represented by the Old Testament high priest, especially…

God's Sovereignty

For Lord’s Day, October 12, 2014 Dear Saints, Something stood out to me recently in the following verse: And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they…

Contentment, Faith, Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty, Perseverance

For Lord’s Day, October 5, 2014 Dear Saints, We rejoice to share with you that we brought Jennifer back to the hospital today to take her chemotherapy pump off as the last “installment” of six months of her initial treatment.…

Contentment, Faith, Perseverance

For Lord’s Day, September 28, 2014 Dear Saints, Recently, Elder Renner shared with me a video about gymnast, Jennifer Bricker, and her incredible life achievements. What is most surprising and thus most impressive about her life is what might have…

Evangelism, Perseverance, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

For Lord’s Day, September 14, 2014 (Image Source: ) Dear Saints, This Lord’s Day we will see in the morning by the Golden Candlestick (or Lampstand/Menorah), that Christ always shines in us, His true Tabernacle. The Holy Spirit will never…

Evangelism, Faith, Fear and Worry, Pain and Suffering, Perseverance

For Lord’s Day, August 10, 2014 Dear Saints, Jennifer shared something with me that she just read which I found really motivating and I want to share it with you. Are you familiar with the meaning of the Chinese characters that…

Sanctification - Growing in Grace

For Lord’s Day, July 27, 2014 Dear Saints, Lately, I’ve slowly been losing weight a little more steadily and sustainably. I’ve been motivated by a number of things in my desire to be more sanctified both in body and soul,…

Evangelism

For Lord’s Day, July 20, 2014 (Photo source: ) Dear Saints, Relational evangelism over time can be trying and tiresome. It’s easy to want to give up. But I want to give you a few encouragements to keep being a witness…

Contentment, Faith, Fear and Worry, The Lord's Day, Worship

For Lord’s Day, July 13, 2014 Dear Saints, Tomorrow we will be reminded about the importance of rest to provide for and protect God’s people in this life to make it to the next life. And that rest is connected…

Sanctification - Growing in Grace

For Lord’s Day, July 6, 2014 Dear Saints, Last week, Christ reminded us in Exodus 22:31 to be holy unto the LORD, and our motivation is that Jesus has presented us as holiness unto the LORD in Himself as the…

Good Works, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

For Lord’s Day, June 29, 2014 Dear Saints, I’d like to share something with you I found helpful (among many things) at the Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship’s (IBCD) Summer Conference this week, entitled “Making Peace with the Past”.…

Sanctification - Growing in Grace

For Lord’s Day, June 22, 2014 Dear Saints, I was blessed to observe so many of you pick up on the suggestion to get a copy of Jeremiah Borroughs’ The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment (available here for free online or…

Contentment, God's Sovereignty, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

(Image source: ) For Lord’s Day, June 15, 2014 Dear Saints, In the morning service last Lord’s Day, we learned that we must respect our authorities as those God has set over us to represent His…

Justice, Slavery

For Lord’s Day, June 8, 2014 Dear Saints, Last Sabbath morning’s sermon on Exodus 22:21-27, “Care for the Poor”, had a stark warning about how God would personally and severely reward those who take advantage of the defenseless. It reminded me of something I…

Evangelism, God's Sovereignty, Good Works

For Lord’s Day, May 24, 2014 Dear Saints, There is a song getting a lot of airplay on the Christian radio that my family and I have enjoyed singing along to while driving lately, and the refrain has been on my…

Faith, Fear and Worry

For Lord’s Day, May 18, 2014 [Source of image: ] Dear Saints, My Mother and I recently hunted for treasures at the East Lake Goodwill’s large book section. I uncovered a vein of gold which I know many of you have…

Fear and Worry, Pain and Suffering, Perseverance

For Lord’s Day, April 13, 2014 Dear Saints, If I may get a little ahead of where we are in our Sabbath Class with Elder Huffmaster on John MacArthur’s book, Anxious for Nothing, two nuggets on getting through suffering patiently were…

Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty, Love, Worship

For Lord’s Day, March 30, 2014 Dear Saints, Tomorrow in our morning worship, the text will be Exodus 20:18-22, where Moses says in verse 20 that God caused His people to fear Him in such a way as to reverently…

Love

For Lord’s Day, March 23, 2014 Dear Saints, We continue with the second table of the Moral Law this Lord’s Day morning. As we had taken note together, our evening service that same day on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a was a…

Gratitude, Love

For Lord’s Day, March 16, 2014 Dear Saints, As we looked at the preface to the Ten Commandments last Lord’s Day, we were reminded that Jesus says the whole Moral Law hangs upon two commandments (Deut. 6:5 and Lev. 19:18…

God's Sovereignty, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

For Lord’s Day, March 9, 2013 Dear Saints, I’m sure this sentiment I’m about to share with you has been expressed many times, and it should so be myriad more. In two newsletters this week, I enjoyed similar thoughts that…

God's Sovereignty, Sanctification - Growing in Grace, Worship

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…

Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty, Grace and Mercy, Gratitude, Perseverance

For Lord’s Day, February 16, 2014 Dear Saints, Tomorrow we will be reminded that, “hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (1 Sam 7:12) and that this is always the case. God has “proved” the Israelites again and again to have…

Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty, Pain and Suffering, Perseverance

For Lord’s Day, February 9, 2014 Dear Saints, I recently saw two videos providing amazing examples of not murmuring against God over difficult providences. It was a humbling reminder of what Christ preached to us last week in Exodus 16:1-17:7…

Lord's Supper, Worship

For Lord’s Day, February 2, 2014 Dear Saints, Several thematic elements continue out of Exodus 15 into chapters 16 and 17 this Lord’s Day. One of the main and very sad themes is that the people keep murmuring against and…

Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty, Pain and Suffering, Perseverance

For Lord’s Day, January 26, 2014 Dear Saints, We will see this Lord’s Day that the Angel of God (the preincarnate Jesus Christ) leads Israel into the wilderness. Previously, we saw He led the Church to the edge of the…

God's Sovereignty, Worship

For Lord’s Day, January 19, 2014 Dear Saints, I have been very blessed recently by listening to and meditating on Michael Card’s song, “Know You in the Now”. It has come to mind with our sermon texts for the Lord’s…

Evangelism, God's Sovereignty, Sanctification - Growing in Grace, Work

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…

Evangelism, God's Sovereignty

For Lord’s Day, December 21, 2013 Dear Saints, As most of you are likely well aware by now, Phil Robertson — the patriarch of A&E’s Cable program “Duck Dynasty”, has been suspended from the program indefinitely because of his “coarse”…

Parenting

For Lord’s Day, December 15, 2013 Dear Saints, In the video Elder Renner began to share with us on Wednesday, Monumental, we learned about how the Pilgrims left our nation a monument so that we would remember how our nation will…

Identity, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

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…

Gratitude, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

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…

Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty, Grace and Mercy, Gratitude, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

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…

Identity, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

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…

Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty, Gratitude, Sanctification - Growing in Grace

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…

God's Sovereignty, Grace and Mercy, Worship

For Lord’s Day, October 20, 2013 Dear Saints, When my family recently volunteered for the annual Creation & Earth History Museum Day in Santee at the end of September, we had the opportunity to listen to an opening ceremony message…

Evangelism, God's Sovereignty, Love

For Lord’s Day, October 13, 2013 (image source: ) Dear Saints, This Lord’s Day evening, we will finish the Westminster Larger Catechism’s attention to the sixth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill” (Ex. 20:13). In my recent studies, there were a…

Fear and Worry, God's Sovereignty

For Lord’s Day, October 6, 2013 Dear Saints, Following the recent morning sermon in Exodus, Elder Huffmaster recounted to me the terrible demise Friedrich Nietzsche went through at the end of his life. Nietzsche was a philosopher famous for popularizing…

Gratitude, Judgment Day, Work

For Lord’s Day, September 29, 2013 Dear Saints, This Lord’s Day evening, we will further consider what is forbidden in the 6th Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13). We will focus on this clause of the answer for Westminster…

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