Romans 11:33 The service today was arranged around the three pastors, myself, Zak and Tracy each taking a part of the doxology at the end of Romans 11 and then worship after each section. This is just my part that started us off. It was a wonderful experience of worship with the University students playing…
Romans 9:1-29 My roommate in my first year of university was and is a very nice guy. He has a strong moral sense. I remember, in that first year, getting on the trolley in Boston and slipping by the conductor without paying. I was celebrating this and my friend, George, looked at me strangely and…
Romans 11:25-32 Each Christmas when we sing O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, I feel a bit uncomfortable. I love this hymn. Emmanuel comes from the Hebrew and means God with us. This is the wonderful part that makes me want to sing this hymn. But it is the first verse that makes me uneasy. O…
Romans 9:1-3 I did a websearch for having “a burden for the lost” and was taken to a number of blogs where people expressed their opinion. Here is one I found: People say they have a burden for the lost, a burden for those who do not know Christ. Hmm. I wonder. Here’s a quick…
Romans 9:1-5 There are times when I walk along our bookshelves at home and look at the books sitting there, remembering how wonderful it was to read them. There is a section of historical biographies and I look at them and remember John Adams and John D. Rockefeller and Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards and…