Post Category: Spiritual Life

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. Earlier today I heard a report on the local news about a condition I'd never before heard of:Compassion Fatigue.The news cast reported this condition in conjunction with the Covid-19 pandemic that has plagued our country now for almost two years.The report focused on those who are on the front line...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. Earlier today I heard a report on the local news about a condition I'd never before heard of:Compassion Fatigue.The news cast reported this condition in conjunction with the Covid-19 pandemic that has plagued our country now for almost two years.The report focused on those who are on the front line...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. Few things are more controversial among Christians than the sovereignty of God. The issue is simply this: Is God truly sovereign (in control and supreme) over everything, including calamity, natural disasters, death, and demons, or is his sovereign control restricted to those things we typically r...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. At times my head wants to explode because of where we're headed and the reasoning of people.A perfect case in point is an article that appeared in the September 21 issues of USA Today written by Nancy Armour.The headline said it all:"Threat to Roe is a threat to women's sports." In other words, wom...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. General Dwight Eisenhower once said (source unknown), "War is a terrible thing. But if you're going to get into it, you've got to get into it all the way." I believe that many Christians are defeated in their Christian lives because they are notseriouslyengaged in the warfare to which we are calle...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. Joel Eidsness is the pastor of Walnut Hill community Church in Bethel, Connecticut.He decided to take his seven year old daughter on an unusual date.They visited the town dump. Backing his Oldsmobile up against the mound of refuse, he placed his daughter on the roof, and with pencil and paper, they...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. I love anniversaries.I love reflecting on events that happened years earlier.Some of them can be painful; like the 20 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, others are joyful; my 7-year-old grandson Nico Hornok was born on September 11, 2014. 68 years ago an article appeared in the Sal...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. No one can deny that in the wake of our withdrawal of remaining American troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban retaking cities previously liberated from their barbaric tyranny, the country has slipped back beneath the dark waters of fear and oppression. Today, the Taliban are armed to the teeth ...

This Sunday as we continue looking at the back story of some of the great hymns of our faith and their scriptural bases for those hymns; today we focused on "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood". There is no greater or more eternally important theme in all of Scripture than that of the shed blood of the sacrificial substitute. For example, when Paul writes in Romans 3...

Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. This past Tuesday August 24th, in Bridgeton, NJ we buried Connie's 95 year old mother, Pat Chambers. For the past 48 years she was my mother-in-law.The memorial service was a fitting tribute to a wonderful, Godly woman, who I had no difficulty calling "Mom" and grew to love.Our entire family put as...