Yesterday, Katie was in a store, and the cashier wished a customer on the way out to have a happy holiday weekend. The customer replied, “It’s a holiday weekend? What holiday is it?” The cashier said, “The 4th of July.” The customer replied, “Oh, I don’t celebrate the 4th of July — it’s not that…
God of all mercy, Your mercies are new every morning. Grant a spirit of vigor rather than stupor for your people. Give us eyes to see and ears to hear today. Amen. r“God gave them a spirit of stupor,seyes that would not seeand ears that would not hear,down to this very day.” – Romans 11:8…
Over the past 15 or so weeks our Community Group has been working through the book of Judges. There are many lessons to learn throughout the book such as leadership, compromise, cycles of sin, cries for deliverance, and God’s grace. One of the most important lessons to learn is how quickly the Israelites became Cannanized…
While spending time reading and praying for revival this morning I was introduced to George Whitefield’s (1714-1770) list of 15 questions he would use to evaluate himself regarding his daily duties. I did a quick search for the list and found that Tim Keller had posted them in Twitter back in 2018. So here are…
Psalm 72:8: May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth! Governing officials in Calvin’s homeland of France harshly suppressed evangelical preaching, causing Calvin to respond with a message to the King Francis I in 1536 with His Institutes of the Christian Religion. For Calvin world…
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! Do not let my heart incline to any evil… –Psalm 141:3-4
During this Advent season, it is my desire to prepare my heart through a variety of “Hymns of Grace.” For many folks, Christmas time is a beloved and cherished season and the traditional sounds of the seasons often set the mood and bring to remembrance cherished memories. Music and song play an important role…
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. – Ecclesiastes 9:10
Unfortunately, today, many people attend worship services regularly but have little or no knowledge of Advent or its meaning. Many worshipers in contemporary evangelical churches can sit through years of services and have no clue about important, scriptural, beautiful, and meaningful Christ honoring traditions along with Christ exalting hymns and scriptural songs handed down from…
November 25th – A Historic Day Largely Forgotten Today most Americans will celebrate what is known as Thanksgiving. A national holiday due in part to Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation on October 3rd, 1863. A portion of the proclamation stated the following. “It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly,…