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All Glory To God The Father and Jesus Christ our Lord
IN THE DARKEST NIGHT: DRAW NEAR, HOLD FAST, CONSIDER OTHERS
In the darkest season of my life, I was lifted decisively out of the pit by a passage in the book of Hebrews. The three simple commands...
Dec 29, 20211 min read
A Tale of Two Dogs
The Parable of the City Dog and the Country Dog By Trevin Wax Once upon a time, there was a dog that lived in a sprawling house in the...
Dec 28, 20211 min read
30-Second Sermon as We Prepared for a Crash Landing
Last Sunday I thought I was going to die. “Brace! Brace! Brace!” The flight attendants prepared us for impact. The pilot of American...
Dec 21, 20211 min read
THE WONDER AND JOY OF ADVENT
The anticipation of Christmas begins building earlier and earlier these days, doesn’t it? The past couple of years have been especially...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
Rejoice in suffering
Many years ago, as part of our church’s search to find a new assistant pastor, my wife and I took the leading candidate and his wife to...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
The Great Challenge of Every Marriage
We’ve all heard that marriage was designed to make us holy more than to make us happy. And though it’s a bit of a trite phrase that...
Dec 13, 20211 min read
The Unwelcome Gift of Suffering
In a season that focuses on gifts, I often overlook one of the most priceless ones. It’s a gift I’ve dreaded, refused, and longed to give...
Dec 11, 20211 min read
Wisdom?!
What is or how do you define Wisdom? In an article I read a while back it talked about the pitfalls of excelling in one thing. People who...
Dec 11, 20211 min read
Diverse Europeans United by Common Need
The Nordics and the Balkans couldn’t be farther apart. They represent polar extremes in Europe. In the winter, the Nordic city of Tromsø...
Dec 9, 20211 min read
The Legend of the Battle-Weary Crusader
Somewhere, buried deep in the collected works of one of those old authors I love so well, I read the story—the legend perhaps—of a...
Dec 8, 20211 min read
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Centre for Intelligent Design - New Webinar Series 2021-22 beginning with Dr Stephen Meyer
New Webinar Series 2021-22 Credit: Evolution News, Discovery Institute, Seattle, USA NEW WEBINAR SERIES The link for the webinar is:...
Nov 7, 20212 min read
Desiring God - The Reformation of English
How Tyndale’s Bible Transformed Our Language In the late summer or fall of 1525, sheets of thin sewn paper bounced across the English...
Nov 2, 20211 min read
What If God Doesn’t Answer?
Guy Richard Not long ago, a man came up to me after a sermon I preached on prayer to tell me that he was no longer interested in praying....
Oct 31, 20211 min read
Not How We Would Have It
by Nicholas Batzig The need of the hour is for Christian men and women to have their minds and hearts shaped by Scripture. In a day when...
Oct 31, 20211 min read
What Are the Five Solas?
Sola Scriptura - By scripture alone Solus Christus - Through Christ alone Sola Fide - By faith alone Sola Gratia - By grace alone Soli...
Oct 31, 20211 min read
What If Thoughts Can Be Evil?
One of the many telling lines in C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is this one, from one devil to another, “It is funny how mortals...
Oct 29, 20211 min read
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The Other Spurgeon How Susannah Loved Charles Through Suffering
"When the storms come, and our trees of delight are bare and leafless, when He strips us of the comforts to which His love has accustomed...
Oct 17, 20211 min read
The Lord Gave and Took Away Lessons on Suffering from Job
My fourth miscarriage flattened me. I couldn’t believe it. I’d buried an infant son a few years earlier and was unprepared for yet...
Oct 11, 20211 min read
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