2 min to readWe want some stability and hope in this life. But where do we find it?
#hope #expectations #promisesofGod
GRACE-FILLED CHURCH MEMBERS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
2 min to readTomorrow we begin our slow return to regular corporate worship at Paramount Church! I’m thankful for church members who have expressed in text, and email, …
I’M SO VAIN
3 min to readReading a Puritan Paperback called The Way to True Peace and Rest has provoked me to think about some of the big obstacles to peace and rest. Early in my Christian life, the first definition I received of pride proved most helpful. To this day, I think about it regularly. It went like this:
LOW ON DISCERNMENT
< 1 minuteSocial media, press media, and a myriad of irresponsible voices are complicating our efforts to make sense of life in the modern world. It’s wild …
HOW IS YOUR PANDEMIC PROGRESS?
3 min to readThe COVID-19 pandemic brings a global occasion to move from thorn-tree living to fruit-tree living (Jeremiah 17:5-9). Because God ordains all things to magnify His …
AIRPLANE BONEYARD
< 1 minuteI came across an incredible video article about the airline industry. During the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines grounded thousands of airplanes. Because maintenance needs remain, and atmospheric conditions may harm the giant machines, airlines must store planes in special places called “boneyards.”
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
2 min to readOur world needs unity in diversity. We need an answer to the question , “how can ‘the many’ diverse people be brought into ‘the one’ unified crowd?” It is the problem of the one and the many.
KEEP GOING FOR THE GOSPEL
< 1 minuteActs 28:22-24
Notice a handful of simple points:
LOVE: ANOTHER REASON TO JOIN A CHURCH
3 min to readThere are many good reasons to join a local church. But there is yet another: love. In this way, I do not mean just the Christian compulsion to love; to love other Christians. I am referring, instead, to our inability to love – our inability to love everyone with the same intensity and devotion.
EIGHT FACETS OF FAITHFUL PREACHING
2 min to readFaithfulness is multifaceted; there is much more to it than simply capturing the dominant thrust of the passage we are expounding, essential as that is. Faithful servants of God’s Word prove themselves to be faithful stewards of it when they: