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  Here are few more links for your reading and listening. I am praying for your hearts and minds to be strong in the faith. Spencer   Best article I read this week is titled “A Welcome to the Plague” — http://scriptoriumdaily.com/a-welcome-to-the-plague-samuel-shaw/   And here is a long one about the relationship of church and state, by Jonathan…

Here are a few links for your quarantine consideration —   Two articles about the difference between meeting online and meeting in person:   The first one is about why we are not really worried that people will prefer virtual to actual – https://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/on_virtual_church_football_matches_and_marriage   And the second is…

Psalm 103 Bless the Lord, O my soul 1.      My soul needs me to tell it to bless the Lord 1, 22 2.      My soul must remember and celebrate God’s goodness 2-7 3.      God forgives and takes my sin so very far away 8-12 4.      God loves and draws me so very close to him 13-14 5.      My life is short but God’s love is everlasting 15-18 6.      God is in control and I can…

Thomas Watson on the Providence and Deliverance of God   “When the hearts of his people are most humble, When their prayers are most fervent, When their forces are weakest, When their enemies are highest, Then is the usual time that Christ puts forth his kingly power to deliver his people.”   I highlighted that in Watson’s book “Body of Divinity” about a month…

The sermon text is Lamentations 3:1-42 “Uncertainty and Certainty” Discuss – Was there one thing about God from the sermon that encouraged, or helped you? Was there one thing from the sermon about your thinking and acting that challenged or corrected you? Prayer – Praise God for what he has revealed about himself in this portion of his word. Ask…

  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…