“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet...
How dry is dry? Elijah predicted years in Israel (1 Kings 17.1) when there would be neither dew nor rain. (Now, that’s pretty dry!) After this revelation to Ahab, God sent the prophet to a brook where he found water to drink. There, he was fed by ravens who brought him food day and night...
I always love hanging around a large gathering of men from our church. I’ve been around here for a while, so I have enjoyed a great number of opportunities to reconnect with guys I’ve worshiped with for years and also fellowship with men I am just getting to know. During these times...
I enjoy preparing, praying over, and preaching sermons. As you might suspect, I also enjoy listening to sermons. In fact, even though some preachers consider it scandalous to listen to sermons in preparation of a sermon, I still do. I love sermons, learn a lot from sermons, and enjoy citing...
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13.34-35 In seminary, one of my first assignments &ndash...
Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman of 9Marks host a regular podcast called, Pastors’ Talk, which I listen to regularly. Recently they shared a helpful discussion about expositional preaching as the normal diet for the Christian life. You can listen here. By the way, to paraphrase, Mark defines...
Last Thursday evening we invited Al Dayhoff to speak to us on evangelism. Al is the founder of Evangelize Today and was invited by our presbytery to lead an all-day workshop on evangelism. I am happy to a part of a presbytery that spends time (and money) to develop our ministry...
OK, I admit it. I am a name-dropper. The Urban Dictionary defines a name-dropper as a vain person who is insecure about his popularity, and must resort to the inclusion of the names of popular people who have no relevance to the conversation in order to achieve a self-gratifying level of social...
For the first quarter of 2020, I have committed to study closely the topic of hospitality. Partly, this is a result of pondering themes in Romans 12-16, the closing section of Paul’s letter focused on the life of the church body in a culture hostile to Christianity. In addition to...
On Sunday, Jan. 12, we will rejoin our preaching series from Romans. Prior to the Advent season we made our way through the end of Romans 11. We begin again with Romans 12.1-2. In October of last year, Sinclair Ferguson and Ian Hamilton were invited to Grace Baptist Church of Carlisle, PA...
