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“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24) As Baptists we practice what is known as the “regulative principle of worship” as outlined in Chapter 22, Section 1 of the Baptist Confession of 1689: “But the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is…

“The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.” (2 Timothy 4:13) As Paul got to the end of his life, he wrote to Timothy and asked him come but also to bring him some personal belongings including some books. Every preacher…

Charles Spurgeon has influenced my library (and my reading) more than any other man. Not only are his sermons very valuable and edifying, but he also had some great advice and recommendations on other books for which I am thankful. Here’s what he wrote about the use of commentaries in sermon preparation. “In order to…

“I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them…

“After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with…

“For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his…

“Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” (Acts 2:27)  Only recently have I began to hear that some believe Jesus went to hell when He died for our sins.  I think this stems from a misunderstanding of the word “Hell” in passages such…

The other day while walking on the beach, my children and I saw a lot of jellyfish on the shore. My daughter Leah took a nice picture of one of them. From what I have read, these are the cannonball jellyfish, a very common species in this part of the country. One of the things…

Recently an article resurfaced on my Facebook feed thanks to someone sharing it. It was an article from 2018 published on christianitytoday.com website.   I might have read it back then, but I was not sure so I took another look. The article was titled “When People Leave: The Private Pain of the Small Church Pastor.”  The…

03/09/2018 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!   I am writing in regards to the recent earthquakes in Papua New Guinea.  As I am not there Iwill relay the information as best  I can.  The first earthquake was 7.5 on the scale and occurred…