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Newsletter — March 31, 2024 March 31st, 2024

It’s Easter! It’s Resurrection Sunday! Has Moses come to mind this morning? He hasn’t? Well, he should! As a pre-figure/type of Jesus, we can learn a lot about what Jesus accomplished in his death and resurrection by looking at Moses. After all, Moses died the night of Passover …

Newsletter — March 24, 2024 March 24th, 2024

The book of Lamentations is the book for Lent. Not just for the people in Jeremiah’s day to reflect on their sins that landed them in famine, plague, destruction, and exile, but also for the church today. The church today, and individuals in the church, often place false hope and …

Newsletter — March 17, 2024 March 17th, 2024

What is the theme of God’s story in the Bible, and of human history? Maturity. The story starts in Genesis with the creation of man. The first man, the first Adam, was immature. There’s nothing particularly wrong with being immature. Everyone starts off in need of training and knowledge …

Newsletter — March 10, 2024 March 10th, 2024

In John 13, Jesus washes the feet of his disciples, and then encourages them to do the same to one another. What are we to make of that? Foot washing does occur in other places in the scriptures. Abraham washes the feet of his three visitors in Genesis 18, Lot offers the same to the …

Newsletter — March 3, 2024 March 3rd, 2024

Let’s face it; the bumper sticker is correct: Life is Good. We live in a stable society, we get paid regularly, the electricity is always on, and we can count on life being pretty consistent. Yes, some have illnesses and people get sick and don’t recover, but Life is Good.

Newsletter — February 25, 2024 February 25th, 2024

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. But let steadfastness have its maturing effect, that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. — James 1:2–4

Newsletter — February 18, 2024 February 18th, 2024

This past Wednesday, the ashes of remembrance shaped in the sign of the cross on our foreheads, provided a reminder of the dust to which we are destined to return. This is not a morbid, introspective self-examination, but a realistic call to face the reality of our condition. And in so …

Newsletter — February 11, 2024 February 11th, 2024

Pastor Josh Anderson of Colleyville, Texas has an interesting point about the practice of Lent: In the Scriptures, there is often a temptation to understand piety before God as fundamentally about “giving up something” or fasting. But ultimately, defining piety as …

Newsletter — February 4, 2024 February 4th, 2024

In our day, the church has so personalized the gospel that all gospel presentations, all gospel tracts, focus primarily upon the individual and his/her salvation/standing before God. Rarely, if ever, is the church or the body of Christ mentioned in these presentations. And so, you wouldn’t …

Newsletter — January 28, 2024 January 28th, 2024

Theologian Peter Leithart makes an interesting observation about the prayers of Christians in his book “The Theopolitan Vision” that we should consider and apply. He notes (p. 102) that prayer is another way we “‘one-another’ one another.” We cast our anxieties, and the …

Newsletter — January 21, 2024 January 21st, 2024

Often you hear Christians say “Let go and let God” in response to something someone says about working out a situation to God’s glory. Often you hear Christians say to others “Don’t be a legalist” or “that’s legalism” when they hear somebody recommend a course of action …

Newsletter — January 14, 2024 January 14th, 2024

Have you ever taken note of how the writers of the new Testament often refer to themselves as “bondservants” of Christ? Paul does so in Romans and Titus, and references it in the book of Galatians. Peter, Jude, and, James do the same. Though these are all leaders and pillars in the …