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  First phone I ever used was a seventies olive green rotary one.   I remember our first phone with buttons, our first answering machine (with a cassette in it), and our first cordless.   This week I have been on the phone much, much more than usual. I have been calling church members who are seniors to check in and offer to pray. It has been a blessing in…

Sunday is the best day of the week. Every Sunday, I bounce out of bed and cannot wait to come to Racine Bible Church to see all of you, praise our risen Savior, and open God’s Word together. But not yesterday. Yesterday was the strangest Sunday I can remember. When I came in to church for the live stream yesterday, I was unsure and uncomfortable. I didn’t really know what…

Here are four recommendations for your Christmas list – One collection of beautiful poetry, one collection of letters full of wisdom, one daily devotional book, and one biography filled with courageous adventure.   The Soul in Paraphrase, Leland Ryken What could be better than a collection of the best Christian poetry with each poem introduced and helpfully explained…

The RBC Pulpit will focus in on the subject of the end times for the next two Sundays. Living Hope — God’s Glorious Plan’s for the Future So here are a couple of recommended readings if you want to go further. It’s important to get good recommendations here, because there may not be an area of Christian learning more filled with kooky teaching than end times…

This beautiful story has been used by preachers to illustrate evangelism for 300 years now. It is from John Bunyan’s Autobiography, “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.” It shows us – all of us – that we can live and speak in such a way as to leave an ember, an impression, a lingering sense of possible joy, in the memories of people we…

How to Study the Bible OBSERVATION Extensive reading Read the whole book (if it is small) Read various translations Read the first and last verses of each chapter, subdivision titles Read an introduction to the book What are some themes in the book? What is the tone/mood? What is the author’s purpose in writing? Intensive reading Narrow to a unit of text (paragraph,…

Bible Study Resources   Bibles English Standard Version.  Crossway, 2001. New American Standard Bible (updated).  Lockman, 1995. New King James Version.  Nelson, 1982. Christian Standard Bible. Holman Bible Publishers, 2017.   Study Bibles ESV Study Bible The MacArthur Study Bible  New Inductive Study Bible  Reformation Study Bible   Reference Materials Vine, W. E.,…

Don’t  you want to reach people with the love of God in Jesus? Don’t you want to share the gospel more? And more effectively? Though we probably all want this … we all talk ourselves out of it in big and small ways. We might be too intimidated or too fearful. We may be simply uncaring and self-centered. We may regularly convince ourselves that we don’t know enough or are…

  One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!”  But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?  “And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our…