• It’s Yours But It’s Not

    Back in the late 1980s I learned what would sometimes happen when local churches tried to leave denominations riddled with apostasy. Legal wranglings would occur, particularly over ownership of property and buildings. I learned that often denominational churches which had scrimped, saved, worked, and labored for a building would turn the keys of their meeting Read more

  • Barn Music

    Well, this is not going to be a serious post at all, just warning you! My RSS feed today showed me this post, and I just had to post it here. I’ve got to figure out someway to incorporate it into my barn theme! This guy is milking his cow and listening to the radio, antenna properly positioned, headphones Read more

  • Amish Rumspringa

    Many–most?–people who know a little about Amish view rumspringa as a time when the Amish church condones, if not encourages, young people to live it up and sow their wild oats, get the world out of their system, to see if they really want to join the Amish church or not. This false view is undoubtedly Read more

  • I Sought the Lord

    I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew He moved my soul to seek Him, seeking me; It was not I that found, O Saviour true; No, I was found of Thee. Thou didst reach forth Thy hand and mine enfold; I walked and sank not on the stormvexed sea; ‘Twas not so much that Read more

  • O God of Sovereign Grace

    O God of sovereign grace, We bow before thy throne, And plead, for all the human race, The merits of thy Son. Spread through the earth, O Lord, The knowledge of thy ways, And let all lands with joy record The great Redeemer’s praise. —Village Hymns, Asahel Nettleton Read more

  • True Repentance

    True repentance takes God’s part against ourselves, has sympathy with God, feels how unworthily the Ruler, Father, Friend of men has been treated. It does not ask, ‘What will my sin bring to me?’ but, ‘What does my sin mean to God?’ –A. H. Strong, Systematic Theology, p. 832 Read more