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Newsletter — October 6, 2024 October 6th, 2024

A famous poet once wrote: “I think that perchance I shall never see, something as beautiful as Psalm 73.” Or something like that! But it’s true! Why? Because it expresses the constant frustration of the righteous when they see the prosperity of the wicked. That’s what we see …

Newsletter — September 29, 2024 September 29th, 2024

38 days till election day, and by all accounts it’s a frustrating election cycle. Both parties promise the moon, with the party in power trying to buy their way to victory giving out free stuff, whether forgiveness of college loans, investment of billions in your community, house loans …

Newsletter — September 22, 2024 September 22nd, 2024

Pastor Thacker preached on Exodus 23:10-19 last Sunday, and it is a timely passage. We are entering that Festive time of year where we have Thanksgiving, All Saints Day, Advent, Christmas, New Years Day, etc. Mixed in with all those days are usually plenty of extended family and friends get …

Newsletter — September 15, 2024 September 15th, 2024

The very first words in recorded Biblical history were spoken by God. “Then God said, “Let there be light.” God spoke the world into existence. God’s word carries power. God speaks, and things come into being. God rules creation by the power of His word.Now consider …

Newsletter — September 8, 2024 September 8th, 2024

In the sixth seal of Revelation 6, there are several “cosmic” events that modern Christians have often used mistakenly to get more zing and sensationalism out of the passage, which helps to sell books about the end times or the Antichrist, etc. These writers think these events are …

Newsletter — September 1, 2024 September 1st, 2024

Following up on the sermon from August 25. There are a couple of additional observations to make from Revelation 6 if it is true that the horses are the church and Jesus is the rider in …

Newsletter — August 25, 2024 August 25th, 2024

Psalm 33 is such a delightful Psalm to read and be encouraged by. Not only because it encourages you to shout for joy in the Lord, or to praise and give him thanks or to make melody to him or sing to him a new song, etc., but because it’s such a simple but powerful antidote to all the …

Newsletter — August 18, 2024 August 18th, 2024

Continuing last week’s theme.. Doug Wilson subtitled his men’s book Fidelity “What it Means to Be a One-Woman Man.” That’s a great subtitle because it puts the responsibility for faithfulness squarely on the shoulders of men, and rightly so, because men lead, and wives …

Newsletter — August 11, 2024 August 11th, 2024

Pastor Thacker in his recent sermon noted the high wall erected around sexual purity, as it would cost a man roughly three years wages if he seduced a virgin. That’s a high fence around one’s future marriage relationship. That’s because marriage, and sexual relationship within …

Newsletter — August 4, 2024 August 4th, 2024

As we look around, frustrated by the political shenanigans, the state of the world, the abounding of wickedness, it can be easy to get angry at the state of things. Which is why keeping James chapter 1 in the forefront of our minds is a really good idea. James wrote his epistle to …

Newsletter — July 28, 2024 July 28th, 2024

Recently I preached two sermons on Revelation 4 and 5, which gives the listener a view of heavenly worship as seen through the eyes of John. In that heavenly worship scene Jesus speaks with the voice of a trumpet, from the throne comes peals of thunder and rumblings, there are multiple …

Newsletter — July 21, 2024 July 21st, 2024

We all showed up last Sunday for worship somewhat stunned: an assassination attempt on former President Trump? That doesn’t happen here in America (at least not very much: I personally remember JFK and President Reagan being shot)!So, how do we think about this event? Here are …