God’s Word is True

From Eden, the strategy of the Enemy has been to discredit what God has said.  At our current point in history we see no relenting of that course as skeptics and textual critics dissect and mutilate what is simple.  The declaration that the Bible is not knowable and irreversibly altered screams through best-seller books and [...]

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Hope Has Risen

Normally when a family member discovers an empty tomb there is distress, sadness and a mad dash to call the authorities. But when we, the members of God’s redeemed family, see our Savior’s empty grave, we rejoice, for why would we seek the living among the dead?
Apart from the attraction of chocolate bunnies and egg [...]

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Mercy Weeds

I looked out towards the front ditch and saw them; little blue and white buds swaying in the noonday sunlight on fragile stems as the spring winds came in from grassy angles.  Tiny yellow cups soon joined in the dance, wrapping themselves around each other like old friends on a picnic in June.  Their florid [...]

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Lessons from a Nut

“Legend has it that lovers met beneath the trees to hear the pistachios crack open on moonlit nights for the promise of good fortune. A rare delicacy, pistachios were a favorite of the Queen of Sheba, who demanded all her land’s production for herself and her court. The royal nut was imported by American traders [...]

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The Cry of the Martyrs

God has set His judgments in motion as famine and pestilence and out-of-control economies pulse and swirl and undulate throughout the interadvental age. The four horsemen ride daily until the culmination of all things reminding us that Judgment comes like the unexpected thief in the darkness, but Christ is still triumphant.
The Lamb who was slain [...]

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Marching Forward

January has flown by as we continue to lay down plans for our community work and church re-plant. One thing is for sure – our plans are never quite like His but they are always perfect. One of the biggest lessons we learn as believers is the lesson of faithful submission to the will [...]

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The Destructive Doctrine of Distinctives

Whether based on family and denominational traditions or biblically convinced applications and matters of conscience, everyone develops  preferences when it comes to how they practice their faith. Some utilize a more regulative principle in their decision making while others exercise a more normative principle, yet in the end they share the same result – [...]

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Gustav Break

As many of you know we had to evacuate because of the Big Swede.  While it was not as terrible as predicted it certainly was nothing to mess around with so we left.
You can catch up on the chronicle of our journey at :  www.evacublog.wordpress.com
SDG

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Supernaturally Loverific

No matter what we do in our Christian lives as we sojourn through crevice and peak, if it’s not done on the ridge of love – it’s nothing more than an hand-hammered cymbal resounding loudly from the clang of a flesh stick. If we do the most amazing acts of service and yet [...]

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Real Church Growth is the Fruit of the Lips

Many believe that numbers indicate growth when it comes to the church but numerical prowess is never a consideration biblically when God speaks about our success. We never read passages that say, “And the Lord was pleased that their Sunday morning classes were twenty-five percent bigger than the [...]

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