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If you want to read ahead for corporate worship – hit up Acts 1 and 2. We will be viewing Acts 2:40-47 as a model and finding everything we can in the two chapters that will help us get there.

Firm Foundations Prep I am team teaching two classes during the next firm foundations track. What was I thinking?! So I have to figure out how to divvy up an 8 week overview of Genesis through 2 Chronicles with my co-teacher Dan Miller for OT S…

John G. Paton is here describing his upbringing by a godly father in the Scottish glens. I find this little vignette incredibly moving. I wish that someday my kids will remember something, just a little bit like this, about me&helli…

I have a secret weapon that I have been using for almost twenty years now. I pull it out anytime I am preaching from the biggest book in the Bible. My weapon is John Calvin’s commentary on the Psalms. We read and discussed the 13 page introd…

The Essential Edwards Collection Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney I snagged this from the RBC library. You should too. These little books are marvelous mini-exposures to the God-enthralled genius of Jonathan Edwards. All five are worth c…

Dan Miller’s Sarcastic Sermon on Why We Don’t Need the Psalms. That mini-sermon was crammed full of the most helpful pointers on maintaining mediocrity. Singing “Christ is Risen” with Sam, Pete and Tim carrying rhyt…

Sunday morning be here to hear something different. Three of us are sharing the pulpit. Each of us will take a few minutes to preach about why we need the Psalms. John Miesel will share on the Psalms, suffering and sadness. How the …

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lor…

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Chr…

If you want to read ahead for corporate worship tomorrow, we will be in three Psalms. Psalms 100, 66 and 113