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“Your testimonies also are my delight; they are my counselors.” – Psalm 119:24
Earlier today, I read a helpful little booklet written by Susan Heck entitled A Call to Scripture Memory. In this 21-page booklet from Focus Publishing, the author answers five questions: Who should memorize Scripture? Why should we memorize Scripture? What
Continue readingMany professing Christians seek change in their lives using methods which are contrary to Scripture. As a result, they don’t experience the change which God seeks to produce in his people. In the very helpful booklet, HELP! Want to Change,
Continue readingIt is our conviction that every Christian should be an active member of a Bible-teaching local church. As believers in Christ, we are members of His body and must discipline ourselves to be actively involved in ministry as a way
Continue readingA local church is not built by one man, or even a few men, but by every believer being actively involved in ministry through evangelizing the lost people in their lives and serving their fellow Christians. A quick glance at
Continue readingHe is the serpent, the Great Dragon, Beelzebul, the ruler of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the evil one, and the adversary. He is Satan. And—if you are a follower of Jesus Christ—he hates your
Continue readingWhether it’s I Love Lucy, The Brady Bunch, Star Trek, or Leave it to Beaver, reruns of our old, favorite TV shows are something everyone enjoys. Knowing this, I hope it works the same for blog reruns. Beginning Monday, I
Continue readingSince earlier this year, each Friday, three men at our church meet over lunch to read through Stuart Scott’s book, The Exemplary Husband. As we near the end of this helpful look at biblical husbanding, we have been studying some
Continue readingOne of the hymns that has been a personal favorite of mine, since the Lord saved me in the early part of 1984, is And Can It Be? One reason why so many believers love this Charles Wesley song is
Continue readingToday, Dr. Bob Somerville provides us with the final post in this 3-part series on depression. In Part 1, he drew out of Elijah’s experience some of the common causes of depression. In Part 2, he showed how God ministered
Continue readingIn yesterday’s post, Dr. Bob Somerville began using the example of Elijah to draw principles for us to consider when counseling one another through depression. The emphasis, yesterday, was the factors that contributed to Elijah’s depressed state. In today’s post,
Continue readingDepression is a malady of the human experience—one of a multitude of ways fallen creatures wrestle through living in a fallen world. Today, tomorrow, and Wednesday our blog posts are gleaned from my friend Dr. Bob Somerville of the Master’s
Continue readingTonight, as you prepare your heart for Lord’s Day worship tomorrow, remember to pray for all those faithful men who preach the gospel week in and week out. Here’s a suggested way to pray from Matthew Henry. Let the gospel
Continue readingEarlier this week, the Holy Spirit used the book of Ruth to minister deeply to my soul. To see afresh the sovereignty of God revealed in such a subtle, beautiful way it rightly accentuated my smallness and God’s bigness. Is
Continue reading[I was blessed by the following poem originally posted by Matthias Media. Thanks, Tim Challies, for drawing my attention to it.] We made a fire today: piled branches in a top-heavy heap and watched as flames licked and spat and
Continue readingIn her new book, Building a Church Counseling Ministry, biblical counselor and trainer Sue Nicewander gives 6 reasons intentional church-based discipleship is God’s intentional plan for reproducing obedient disciples of Christ. She writes, “Although we will use the terms ‘discipler,’
Continue readingThe past two days were happily spent with David Murray and his film crew as they work to produce a DVD teaching series for small groups on the subject of how Christians can deal with depression. During the interview in
Continue readingYesterday, one of my associate pastors encouraged me to read a chapter in A Portrait of Paul, in which the authors expound on how the apostle Paul maintained a Godward focus and joy in the midst of his suffering. The
Continue readingContinuing my meditations in the book of 1 John, the Holy Spirit has focused the eyes of my heart on another important truth about my position in Christ. According to the Word of God, I am loved by my heavenly
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By God’s grace, I’m a husband, dad, grandpa, and pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Hts, OH. I love Christ because He first loved me.
