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Our elder Bible study from last month: Duties of an Elder: Feeding the Flock Biblical Terms The word teach and its cognate nouns teaching and teacher are used in the NT mainly to denote the careful transmission of the tradition concerning Jesus Chr…

What I am up to lately… Thrilled to preach the gospel to many visitors yesterday. Thankful that opening Colossians 3 enabled me to do more than talk about family. What the church needs is a truly Christian understanding of family so that we are e…

Here is the essay on family that I mention in Sunday’s sermon. I Want to Burden My Loved Ones By Gilbert Meilaender http://tinyurl.com/287gzgd

Great article about Franklin Graham, the Pentagon, and faithful witness to Christ. Check it out at Mohler’s blog. http://www.albertmohler.com/2010/05/06/who-will-be-tested-next-the-dilemma-of-franklin-graham/

This post from Doug Wilson was very thought provoking for me… The political state in our day is swollen and overgrown, and has gotten into everything. Politics, the great secular idol of modernity, has virtually filled up every public spac…

1) Moses really, really knows how to tell a story. Contrary to what you may have previously thought — the book of Numbers makes for great reading. 2) Talked to a missionary from Guyana about training pastors there. Do I even know where that …

Matthew 19 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. John Piper comments on this passage in his book This Momentary Marriage The magnificence of marriage in the mind of God will s…

I appreciated this article by Tim Challies. (you can read the whole thing at his blog) The beep is a purely human sound, one without any equivalent in nature. No animal, no plant, makes a beep. You know the sound well. The beep begins and en…

As I was driving in early this morning my prayers were prayers of thanksgiving to God for the elders of this church. And as our meeting concluded this morning, I have even more thanks for these men. We talked about staff evaluations, summer missi…

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind – this thing to you is sin.&rd…