How have you experienced God’s GLORY in your life? Certainly, creation testifies to the GLORYof God. Think about the first time you were told that there were no two snowflakes exactly the same. There are so many miracles of nature. Like so many of you I like vast...
There are many different ideas in our culture about the meaning of love. Love comes to have real meaning in John’s Gospel. We read in John 13:34, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.”...
If someone were to ask you: “Where is your church?” What would your answer be? It’s where it’s always been – at 2910 West Main Street (across from Taco Bell)! But, that’s the wrong answer. Our church is at the NIBCO Plant in Stuarts Draft; our church is at a...
While I have been away, I attended a midweek worship service with Kim’s parents on Wednesday. The preacher shared how it is easy to become a “minimum Christian” in lieu of “maximum Christian”. Minimum Christians do as little as possible in their walk with the Lord...
Have you ever had someone let you down? They made a promise but didn’t fulfill their promise. The fact is people will let you down sometimes. A vast number of our troubles in this world come from placing our trust in something or someone other than God. When Joseph...
We read in 1 Peter 3:18, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit . . .” In this powerful text, Peter emphasizes a clear and concise...
This Sunday is Palm Sunday! It recalls the day Jesus made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Did you ever wonder who the people were in the crowd who went out to meet Jesus that day? First, there were those who were curious. They thought of Jesus along much the...
What kind of church does God use? We read in Acts 11 about the church in Antioch! The founding and thriving of the church at Antioch was arguably one of the most significant events in the history of Western civilization. It led to the distinctiveness of the...
People are forgetful, and we need special things to jog our memories from time to time. In the Bible we find many such reminders. After God destroyed the world in a flood, He told Noah, “Whenever you see the rainbow, remember my promise that I will never destroy the...
Jesus declares in His famous Sermon on the Mount, “Every good tree bears good fruit” (Matthew 7:17, NIV). It is interesting to look at the way in which this sentence is written in the Greek, because there is a different word used for good – The first word for good,...