A God Who Delights to Make Wrong Things Right

“We serve a God who delights to make wrong things right.”  The words from Dr. Dan Davey’s message have been ringing in my ears this week.  They rang in my ears as I stood with the Emr family and prayed that God would heal little infant, Vera.  I heard them again as I prayed for the Stolvoort family as they hope [...]

Wash Me Now

Thanks to Mike Morton, one of our church interns, for this guest post. When I was young, my parents always made it a point that I wash myself daily. Like a normal boy though, I did not always want to wash myself everyday. I figured if I was not dirty then I was clean. However, [...]

Saved By Works

I’ve been doing a lot of reading for a seminary class on the doctrine of salvation, so I figured I would share a particular insight that often gets overlooked when we talk about what Christ did for us: Have you ever wondered why Christ lived 30+ years as a man? Why he gave up His [...]

A God I Don’t Get

I’m glad I serve a God I don’t always get. Deuteronomy 29:29 says, “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God.” There are a lot of things about God I don’t fully understand: that’s why He’s God and I’m just me. Take the problem of evil. “Evil, a problem? No kidding.” Let me be [...]

Minimizing Sin

What kind of words do you use to describe your own sin? It’s easy enough to “call it like it is” when someone else is in the wrong, but things are different when I’m talking about myself. I’m talking about sin euphemisms. Euphemisms? You mean like, “Oh my stars” or “sakes alive”? Well, not exactly. [...]

I’m Proud…Period.

I’m proud.  Period.  End of discussion.  No argument.  I am giving just a little Monday wrap-up to last Sunday at church and specifically the morning message.  Most preachers would say that they are the ones that benefit most from the message because they have been studying and thinking all week long about the passage.  Paul even tells Timothy [...]