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Dear Church Family, The Scripture text for the sermon this coming Sunday is Philippians 3:12-4:3, in which the Apostle Paul uses two different images to speak about the Christian life: as a foot-race and as citizenship. I’ve been thinking about the latter image, specifically as a citizen of the U.S. in which our national elections…

Dear Church Family, This coming Sunday, September 1st, we will resume our sermon preaching series in the book of Philippians. Our text will be Philippians 1:3-11. The title of the sermon is “The Prayer of the Saints” because in these verses, the Apostle Paul writes to the church in Philippi about how he prays for…

Dear Church Family, The 51st General Assembly of our denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), will be held next week, June 10-14, in Richmond, VA. As the highest court in our church, it is an important part of the health and well-being of our denomination; however, with all the parliamentary procedures and Robert’s Rules…

Dear Church Family, This past weekend, May 23-25, was the 2024 Ligonier National Conference; the topic was “The Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Tom & Mary Louise attended the conference with their grandson so I’m sure they will be able to provide a more detailed review and more specific recommendations. For my part, here…

Dear Church Family, In our present sermon series in the Ten Commandments, we began with several introductory sermons from Exodus 18:13-20:2 in which we explored the immediate context and setting of God’s delivering the moral law to His people on Mount Sinai. Specifically, the immediate context of the Ten Commandments is the Lord’s miraculous s…

Dear Church Family, I recently finished reading Rosaria Butterfield’s recent book Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age in which the author addresses five lies which she formally believed, but concerning which she has since repented: (1) Homosexuality is normal(2) Being a spiritual person is kinder than being a biblical Christian(3) Feminism is good for the…

Dear Church Family, Tonight, we will resume our Wednesday Night Dinner and Discipleship at our home. We will continue our study of “Turning Points in Church History.” If you’re interested to see what where we’ve been and where we’re going in this study, you may find more details and an outline of our lessons here:…

Dear Church Family, The new year’s celebrations have come and gone, but it’s not too late to get started on a plan to read through the Bible in a year in 2024. Or, if that sounds a bit too daunting at this point, there are plans available for reading through just the Psalms or intensive…

Dear Church Family, About a week and a half ago in our Sunday morning worship service, we sang two hymns from two very different, but contemporary, hymn writers: Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. During the service, I mentioned how the theology of each hymn writer comes through in…

Dear Church Family, Last week, we kicked off our first Wednesday Night Dinner & Discipleship. Some came for dinner at 5:45 pm; at the end of the meal, we sang a hymn and then had about 13-15 people for our discipleship time at 6:30-7:30 pm. It was a wonderful time of fellowship discussion as we…