Psalm 51 Is church a place for saints or for sinners? Who are we? Are we saints or are we sinners? There are four possibilities for us with this choice. We can be saints. We can be sinners. We can be saints and sinners at the same time. Or we can be neither saints nor [...]
Psalm 42 / 43 In Numbers 16 there is an account of a power struggle that took place between Moses and some of the community leaders of the Israelites. Korah, Dathan and Abiram decided that it was not fair that Aaron and his sons were the head priests. Korah, Dathan and Abiram were responsible for [...]
Psalms When I last preached, two weeks ago, Saul was being sent off to Tarsus by the brothers in Jerusalem and then followed a period of peace in the account of the church in Acts. It seems a good time to take a break from Acts and move on to another part of the Bible. [...]
Psalm 19, Philippians 3:12-15, John 17:18 When I was back in the US last month, I went on a two day prayer retreat at a camp in the northern woods of New Jersey. This camp had four hundred acres of land (177 hectors) with a lodge built on the edge of a small lake. The [...]
Deuteronomy 33:12, Psalm 131 Life isn’t safe. I was with my father this last month and dealt with the concerns of my five sisters that he will be unable to take care of himself now that my mother has died. He has a bit of a short-term memory problem. As he told me, “I can [...]
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