Preparing for the Lord's Day This Sunday as we gather for worship we will take a break from our series on The Psalms and be reminded what God has done for us in Christ by looking at Titus 3:1-11. In this passage Paul commands us to obey authorities and be kind to unbelievers. He recognizes the pride we may have as the people of God and reminds us what we were once lik...
Keep Reading Preparing for the Lord's Day Leland Ryken called them Worldly Saints. It is a name that might not fit your perception of the Puritans. Yet central to the Puritan movement was a quest for all of life to be conformed to the word of God. Puritanism was a movement to do what God commanded and to live for God's glory not just in the Church but in the world. The Puritans were s...
Keep Reading Preparing for the Lord's Day This Sunday we return to the study of Christian meditation as we come to Psalm 119. Psalm 119 is the longest Psalm in the Bible and it provides for us an extended meditation on the Word of God, itself. Six times in this Psalm there is direct teaching on the concept of meditating on God's word (vv. 15, 23, 27, 48, 78, 148) and many other refere...
Keep Reading Preparing for the Lord's Day What is man? In some way or another we have all been face with this question over the past week and a half. For we have been confronted with a blatant disregard for the sanctity of the life of a fellow human being. We have been reminded of the pain and the struggle of racial tension that continues to plague our nation. We have seen how this ...
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