Paul dealt with a serious problem in the Corinthian church almost two thousand years ago. Some were saying there is no resurrection from the dead. In essence Paul responded, if there is no resurrection from the dead, then there is nothing after death and this life is all there is, then let us eat and…

Back to school!   Why? To give you the tools to pursue truth. “Reading, writing and arithmetic.” So you can read truth, write truth and properly identify truth in a world where truth is often ignored.   Pursue truth and never let it go. Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction…

I came across some notes I kept from a Reader’s Digest article which appeared in the November 1987 issue. The thoughts are timeless in their application. The thing that makes them timeless is the truthfulness of them. The thing that makes them truthful is the fact that they are based on the principles given to…

We awoke last Friday morning to our yard being covered with broken tree limbs and leaves. We also had a small tree fallen in the back yard after the wind had broken it in half. My drive into the office that morning would reveal that we were not the only ones with clean-up duty to…

Evidently, this was the word of the day Sunday. I have to admit, I have a fondness for the word. I cannot remember the first time I heard or read the word. But it became an immediate favorite. Synecdoche – “A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or…

Well, I did it again. I’m four days late on my second quarter estimated income tax payment. The payment due June 15 has sneaked up on me more than once. We have now inserted alerts in our calendars to try and keep that from happening again. Some things are so important you don’t want to…

Sean Marks did a great job in our VBS adult class last night. He led us through a study of the book of Jonah. What a great lesson this book teaches us on the grace of God and how God deals with us when we are in need of changing. It is a lesson we…

Isn’t that a beautiful bird? I hope you are getting the color version of our bulletin which comes to those who receive it through their computer. I love watching birds. This one was in Jos, Nigeria. It is called Red Cheeked Cordon Blue Finch. It lives in the Sub-Sahara region of Africa, which is where…

In the thirty-one years of his rule, King Josiah proved to be a faithful man of God and a great king of Judah. He served God from the beginning as a young king and grew into a greater understanding of God’s will and a determination to follow that will. He made a covenant with God…

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. 2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart– 3 they do no wrong but follow his ways. 4 You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed. 5 Oh, that…