Belonging is Very Necessary
There are many voices today decrying the Church of Jesus Christ. They tell us that she is outdated. Irrelevant. Impotent. Unneccesary. The focus basically is-you can be a Christian. You…
People of the One Book
During the 1970s the Southern Baptist Convention found itself facing a crisis that had divided every other major protestant denomination. The Presbyterians, the Methodists, and the latest had been the…
The Unbelievers that Concern Me
The great Puritan Preacher Richard Baxter (1615-1691) wrote “One proud lordly word, one needless contention … may blast the fruit of all you are doing“. We live in a day…
Keep a Safe Distance
Exodus 20:21 “And the LORD said to Moses Go down and warn the people, lest they cross the barrier, breakthrough unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.”…
Change
When you ride on an Amtrak train, listening to those wheels running over those rails did you ever think about how wide those rails are apart? And why? Those rails…
Seeds for All Generations
Original Thoughts: Devotions from the Original Languages April 14, 2008 Scriptures: II Tim. 3:16-17; Mark 4;14 The Bible – carefully read and well-worn, was the most important book in Gerrit’s…