• The Big 4-0

    Last December 2009 I turned the big 4-0. So this year, anticipating launching headlong into the 40s, I thought I’d scan my daughter Meagan’s tribute/gift to me from last year. Make sure you read through her list of “40 things I love about my dad–some of them are pretty funny!” I especially enjoyed her little Read more

  • Fellowship With God

    This morning I read 1 John 1; note verses 5-10– 5This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; Read more

  • Joy in Heaven

    I read Luke 15 early this morning, and especially noted verse 10– There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. Of the things that bring joy to humanity (sports, elections, war victories, amazing feats), the fact is that none of them move heaven’s angels to rejoice. Then, Read more

  • Holiness Necessary

    Religion is by no means always connected with goodness. In the Greco-Roman world, the two were often entirely separate…the danger was therefore very great that Christianity might be treated in the same way. The early Christians needed to be admonished ever and again that their God was a God of righteousness, that no unclean thing could stand Read more

  • Let Us Love

    Let us love, and sing, and wonder, Let us praise the Saviour’s name! He has hushed the Law’s loud thunder, He has quenched Mt. Sinai’s flame; He has washed us in His blood, He has brought us nigh to God. Let us love the Lord who bought us, Pitied us when enemies, Called us by Read more

  • Purposes of 1 Peter

    From the separateness of the Church two results, according to Peter, should follow—in the first place purity, and in the second place courage. Members of a holy race, purchased by the precious blood of Christ, elect from before the foundation of the world, cannot engage in those evil practices which were natural to them in Read more