• A Great Illustration of Faith

    After Naaman protests Elisha’s instruction to wash in the Jordan seven times to be cleansed of his leprosy, Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, “My father, had the prophet told you to do somegreat thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be Read more

  • Upcoming Bible Class

    I’ll be teaching a new Bible Class at Orwell Bible Church beginning next month on the Old Testament. The primary focus of the class will look at each individual book of the OT, but also give consideration to important aspects of the OT such as how did they worship (looking especially at the sacrificial system), Read more

  • Introduction to the Gospels

    You can download a PDF of this here. Having introduced the New Testament, let’s now briefly consider some basic things about “the Gospels.” The English word Gospel comes from the Anglo-Saxon word godspell and is made up of god (God) and spell (a story). Gospel, then, means either God-story or good story. This last meaning Read more

  • Introduction to the New Testament

    For our Wednesday Bible studies at Orwell Bible Church we’ve begun a new series I’m calling Scripture Summaries. The objective is to give a clear, concise overview of one book of the Bible at a time. We started this past week with an Introduction to the New Testament. You can download a PDF of the following Read more

  • An Evangelistic Essential

    “…so that the world may believe/know…” (John 17:20, 23) A “church” may have all kinds of external evidences of “success” but if there is no true spiritual unity such is but an outward façade. Jesus’ intention for his body (in which are unified both Jews and Gentiles) is that, by virtue of their unity and Read more

  • Psalm 119:69-72

    69 The men that are puff’d up with pride against me forg’d a lie; Yet thy commandments observe with my whole heart will I. 70 Their hearts, through worldly ease and wealth, as fat as grease they be: But in thy holy law I take delight continually. 71 It hath been very good for me Read more