What do you want?

D. A. Carson told the story of Lillian Guild who was driving one day with her husband and noticed a recent-model Cadillac at the side of the road with its hood up.  The driver explained with some embarrassment that he was in a hurry to get to a business meeting and that while he’d seen […]

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Sermon: A Servant of Scripture

A Servant of Scripture Psalm 119:121-128 June 21, 2020 Private Harry Cole was a private in the British Army that was retreating to Dunkirk in 1940.  He penned a letter to his mother and family during the retreat, but his regiment was overrun by the Germans and he never made it to Dunkirk and did […]

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Today is a day for thankfulness

Today is a day for thankfulness.  Every day is a day for thankfulness.  Every circumstance is a time for thankfulness. That’s not my opinion.  My (personal and fleshly) opinion is that most days are for grumbling, complaining, disputing, and arguing.  I do not naturally gravitate to thankfulness.  I naturally move towards ingratitude and discontentment. But […]

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Sermon: Thanking God for the Past…

Thanking God for the Past; Trusting God for the Future Philippians 1:3-11 June 14, 2020 Sometimes it is hard to give thanks for the circumstances and people of our past. That’s not just true in the past three months, but it’s also true of life in general — illness, unexpected deaths, financial hardship (poverty), broken […]

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What the world needs now

I was going to say it Sunday, but I forgot.  I had thought of it while on a run last week, but I didn’t have a pen and paper handy at that moment, and then forgot to write it down later.  So when I wrote last Sunday’s sermon, it didn’t get included.  When we think […]

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God doesn’t change

God doesn’t change. God hasn’t changed.  God won’t change.  God can’t change. God is what He is. God is what He always has been.  And God will always be what He has always been. In contrast, our lives know only change.  We get older (and weaker and ultimately, frail).  Our children get older.  Our job […]

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Sermon: God Unchanging

God Unchanging Psalm 102:23-28 May 3, 2020 There are some constants in life — the proverbial death and taxes among them.  Another constant is change.  We can be certain that very few things in life are static; most things change.  Among the changes in life are cultural norms.  Consider the story of one John Fisher […]

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36 Spiritual Blessings of Salvation

Lewis Sperry Chafer delineated at least 33 blessings that the believer receives upon coming to Christ. He comments: “The Scriptures reveal 33 stupendous works of God which together comprise the salvation of the soul. They are wrought by God instantaneously, are grounded on the merit of Christ, and are eternal. Accordingly each member of the […]

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