A few days ago, I posted the following quote on my Facebook profile: “Jesus said, ‘Go… and make disciples,’ not converts to your opinions.” – Oswald Chambers A friend wrote in the comments, “How do you know what Jesus said?????” It is a good question, and worthy of a thoughtful, honest answer. I responded, “By studying the Bible. He said plenty in there, and it’s the only way we can know what He did say.” As it turns out, it…
Yes! It’s time to wake up. Wake up to what is going on around us, if you haven’t already. Wake up to what it means for our own lives, and for our children and grandchildren if we don’t at the very least speak into their lives the truths of God’s Word. By nature, I am a quiet homebody, getting well into my senior years. I would be perfectly content to live out the rest of my days reading, writing, playing…
THE NIGHT IN QUESTION Saturday, December 12, 2009. THE FACTS A young man worked his full shift at Independent grocery store, finishing at 11:30 pm. He He left town for a drive in the country, as was his usual practice, to go for a short drive to unwind before going home. The air very cold and crisp, but clear, in town. He did not know about the patches of heavy, thick ice fog here and there along the route he…
“The new is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed.” – St. Augustine I first heard that quote when I was a teenager, and it stuck with me. It refers to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, and the fact that God’s covenant of grace is evident throughout both. There are many prophecies and symbols of Christ’s death and resurrection, in the Old Testament, but the prophecies were not made clear until the New…
What do you do when get the worst news you can imagine, and your world falls apart? Tim Challies is a blogger and author, and an elder at Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario. He and his wife, Aileen, were blessed with two daughters and a son. On November 3, 2020, their son, Nick, died very suddenly and unexpectedly, while participating in a sports activity at his college. The cause remains unknown. Tim’s struggle in the loss of his son…
“The Bible talks about a false Jesus and a false Gospel. Jesus Himself speaks of this in Matthew 24:4-5 and Paul speaks of this in the beginning of his second letter to the Corinthians and warns of a ‘false gospel’ in his letter to the Galatian people. Which Jesus do you follow?” – Melissa Dougherty Had you asked me ten years ago if I’d ever been taken in by New Age teaching, I would have responded with a resounding, “No!”…
Toddlers, Teens, and the Twilight Years What do they have in common? To name a few…They can do things they have never done before, or can’t do things they’ve always done before.They are misunderstood by those around them.They don’t understand themselves or what is happening to them TODDLERS We had seven children, but we never experienced the “terrible two’s”. One evening at supper, fourteen-month-old James began smashing his mashed potatoes with his spoon, splattering them all around. I thought he…
The 11th Commandment Such was the title of a children’s story my own children listened to countless times when they were small. It was about a family who were waiting for a guest pastor to arrive, and stay with them over Saturday night, before his visit to their church the next day. The parents were annoyed when a violent storm brought a stranger to their door, whose car had broken down nearby. They let him in most reluctantly, as they…
We Are at War! There is a war going on in the world today, and I’m not talking about Ukraine or other visible wars. This war is against us, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. We see it all around us in the perverse and wicked ideologies that have been in the works for decades, but have crept in and taken over most noticeably in the past few years. We see this all around us, not only in the…
JUNE 5, 1976. June 5 has been a special day for me in more than one way through the years. The first was 46 years ago today. Very few people who know me today will recognize the handsome young man in this picture, but he was a significant part of my life, and helped shape who I am today. This is my first husband, Bob Langdon, on our wedding day – June 5, 1976. Our marriage lasted only two years,…