This Monday is Memorial Day. A few Sunday’s ago it was Mother’s Day and in a few more weeks it will be Father’s Day. These are good days. It is good to celebrate a godly mother and a godly father and to remember the godly men and women...
Each of my children received a kite for Easter and they were very eager to fly them on the first windy day. I enjoyed watching from the window as they struggled to get their kites aloft, untangled them from each other and various limbs, and then grinned from...
It has been almost two and a half years since I first preached about church planting. On December 5, 2010 I preached a sermon entitled “Plant.” I remember that day very well. I was nervous, because. Church Planting is something I am very passionate about and there I...
A Meditation on Hebrews 12:22-24 “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of...
In my reading this week, I came across this quote from Robert Capon discussing our freedom in Christ: “If we are ever to enter fully into the glorious liberty of the children of God, we are going to have to spend more time thinking about freedom than we...
A Meditation on Proverbs 3:5-6 For two to three years now I have used Proverbs 3:5-6 as a bedtime blessing for my children. I don’t use the same blessing every night, but I use this one a lot. It goes like this, “may you trust in the Lord...
“Or who has given a gift to Him the he might be repaid?” (Romans 11:35) In Matthew chapter 2, we are told of the Wise Men from the east that came in search of the new born king. In verse 11, it says, “And going into the...
A meditation on Psalm 90 Have you ever felt like Solomon in Ecclesiastes? Life can often give us the feeling of being a guinea pig in a running wheel, always moving about with busyness, but going nowhere. That is where we find Moses in Psalm 90. He...
a meditation on Luke 10:39 The story of sisters Mary and Martha is a familiar one. Martha was a worrier moving about with the routine of the day keeping up appearances. Mary was different. She spent all the time she could sitting at the feet of Jesus. ...
A meditation on 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. (ESV) As I sit to write this article I do so...
