At our wedding, we read Ps. 103 and ever since it’s been one of my favorite Psalms. “Praise the Lord!” comes first and last. We begin by calling ourselves, all of ourselves, to worship. We end by calling all in heaven and all on earth to worship. And why worship? Because God… forgives, heals, redeems, […]
As a child, I spent my summers at camp. Not like ordinary kids who go to camp for a week, though. My dad, a school teacher by trade, had his summers off so for four years we spent every day from Memorial Day through Labor Day at Portage Lake Covenant Bible Camp where my dad […]
Paul’s list of names that IS Rom. chapter 16 seems to be on par with the more famous Heb. 11, another list of faithfulness. But while Heb. 11 is a list of familiar characters (from Abraham and David to the apostles themselves), this is a list of names virtually unknown to the modern church. Besides […]
For the last decade the world has been caught up in Avengers fever. With the premier of Iron Man in 2008, Marvel created not just a fun movie, or a new way of doing movies, but changed the entire industry and our culture along with it. We had seldom heard of the concept of a […]
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” – Rom. 15:7 ‘Nuff said. Well, not really. “Acceptance” is too much of a buzzword in our culture today to let that pass without thought. It’s socially acceptable to “accept” anyone and everyone, so we in the church, we […]