“Running Well”
October 29, 2009
“Oh foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth…you ran well, who hindered you from obeying the truth?” (Galatians 3:1; 5:7)
In the first century days of the Apostle Paul, the Greek Olympic Games held a significant place in the everyday lives of those in the Roman Empire. Every four years, athletes representing various city-states would congregate to compete in a series of athletic events. While the ancient games featured discus, javelin throwing, boxing, wrestling and equestrian events, the most prestigious of all of the events was the marathon. It has been said that the marathon is the ultimate athletic event; it is a race against time, it is a race against others, but it is primarily a race against oneself. It is little wonder then, that the great apostle used this grueling foot race as his favorite metaphor for the Christian life. [Read more]
“The Posture of Prayer”
October 25, 2009
A verse by verse study of 1 Timothy chapter 2, from our October 25th Sunday morning service.
“Remain in Ephesus”
October 18, 2009
A verse by verse study of 1 Timothy 1, from our October 18th Sunday morning worship service.
“Me, Myself, and Eye”
October 13, 2009
In January of this year I read a book entitled, “God’s Generals, the Revivalists”. It was given to me as a Christmas present by a friend who knows I am a lover of biographies. The book gives biographical sketches from the lives of the men and women who were used mightily by God, from the Puritan era all the way up to the twentieth century. One of the guys who most intrigued me was Francis Asbury; an English borne American Methodist minister, who spent the better portion of his life, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as a circuit riding preacher. For over 40 years, he oversaw churches from New England to Kentucky and preached the gospel an average of five times a week. When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, the Methodist leadership in England called all of their ministers back to Britain. Francis Asbury was the only Methodist minister to remain in America. He stated flatly, “I will not leave my people.” Leave he did not, although he did have to flee into hiding for a time due to the heavy anti-British sentiment throughout the colonies. As I read his words “I will not leave my people”, God spoke softly to my heart, “Those are words for you this year.” [Read more]
“A Word About Work”
October 12, 2009
A verse by verse study of 2 Thessalonians 3, from our October 11th Sunday morning Bible study.
“Tribulation and Salvation”
October 4, 2009
A verse by verse study of 2 Thessalonians, from our October 4th Sunday morning worship service.