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Thanksgiving

11/01/2018

Thanksgiving Day will be celebrated November 22. It is a day when many families get together to serve a big meal and enjoy one another’s company. Many of us have very pleasant memories from our childhood of this special day. But Thanksgiving Day is about more than just making good family memories. …

How to pray for your pastor(s)

10/01/2018

During the heydays of steam power, boiler rooms were a familiar concept all round the world. Boiler Rooms powered everything from huge commercial machines in factories to household heating systems. While giving a tour of his church to a group of people Charles Spurgeon, the great British preacher …

Dependence Day

07/02/2018

At most baseball games and other public functions, only one of the four stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner -- our national anthem -- is normally sung. While this is understandable because of time constraints, it is regrettable because the soul-stirring and God-honoring conclusion of this anthem is …

Hallowed Be Thy Name

06/04/2018

I have been lately studying, meditating, preaching, and praying through the Lord's Prayer. In considering the first and great request "Hallowed be thy name," I came across this paradigm-shifting, priority-rearranging, prayer-transforming quote from John MacArthur: This is the first request… And …

In the beginning God

01/23/2018

The United States Supreme Court recently handed down what is doubtless one of the most historic, and tragic, decisions since Roe vs. Wade in 1973 opened the door for over 58 million helpless, human babies to be murdered legally. In their recent decision, the Supreme Court attempted to redefine …

The story never gets old…

12/04/2017

...because it is true, and because it is such good news. Take the time to read this aloud -- with your family or alone with God -- and rejoice all over again, giving "glory to God in the Highest": And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, …

Thoughts for Thanksgiving

11/14/2017

"There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise" -- Charles Spurgeon "Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and …

Now thank we all our God

11/20/2012

Perhaps, as Thanksgiving Day draws near, you have great blessings to rejoice in and many family members to share them with. Or perhaps instead you have experienced recent grief or significant loss in the past year. But no matter what our immediate circumstance, we can rejoice as Christians in the …

Who is marriage for?

08/23/2012

Many may be surprised to hear Paul say, as he does in Ephesians 5:32 , that the primary purpose of marriage is to reflect the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. After his lengthy and detailed instruction about marriage, how it works, and what its goals ought to be, Paul writes: "I speak concerning …

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