May 15
2020
Patience in Tribulation
God, in His providence, has kept us from public worship for a time
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A Meal That Moves You to Worship
If the best meal on earth is meant to drive us to worship, why would the Lord’s Supper be any different?
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Disability in the Church - “To and With” Ministry
The church should minister to and with people impacted by disabilities.
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Thankful to be Part of the OPC
One of the things I love about the OPC is its commitment to getting the Bible right, and keeping Jesus Christ and him crucified at the middle of everything.
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Building Towards a Bountiful Harvest
Over the past several months, the facility expansion committee has been meeting for the purpose of planning our fundraising efforts, organizing our pledge campaign, and preparing marketing materials to clearly communicate the plan and vision for our building project.
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For Necessity is Laid Upon Me
What the good news of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection created in Paul the Apostle was not primarily intellectual fascination or emotional enchantment, it was a sense of immense urgency.
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Make Your Pastor Happy
Hebrews 13 suggests that churches ought to care for the joy—the happiness—of their pastor. Why? Because a miserable pastor—a pastor who never knows the winds of encouragement in his sails but only the headwinds of opposition at his face—is rarely an effective one.
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Harvest’s Church Plant: River Presbyterian Church
Our goal is to see a healthy, Reformed church established in Northwest Grand Rapids that is committed to seeing disciples of Jesus made and matured as God’s Word is prayerfully applied to the lives of people.
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A Season of Transition
As I was meditating on Psalm 34 this past week, it struck me that, like so many of the Davidic psalms, it was written during a season of transition.
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Lessons Learned in Thailand
I arrived safely home from Thailand on Tuesday night and am working through jet lag. It was a great trip and I’m so thankful for the opportunity to go. It was engaging in ways I expected it would be – and transformative in ways I didn’t.
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May 8
2020
Blessings During Covid-19
One of the greatest personal blessings COVID-19 has brought into my life is a renewed acquaintance with the Apostle Paul. I owe this man a tremendous debt of gratitude! I am continually surprised, convicted, encouraged, etc., by the way he thinks about the Christian life. The two most prominent realities in his mind, the two things that mold and animate his theology of life in this world are:
May 1
2020
Trials
Just as there are three basic rules to real estate, there are three basic rules to peace of mind in hard times: Perspective, perspective, perspective.
Apr 24
2020
Spiritual Health and Suffering
In other words, Job observed in his friends, a common human trait
Apr 17
2020
Squirrels and Robins
I was reading Romans 8 again this morning. What an incredible chapter! And, in this time of COVID-19, and everything we don’t like about it and fear because of it
Apr 10
2020
Rest & Quarantine
Well, our Governor has decided that we all need three more weeks of intense, uninterrupted, 24/7, non-stop, no-escape-possible, family time. OK. On a more serious and encouraging note
Apr 3
2020
Lost
So, I feel a little lost. How do you shepherd when you can’t be with your sheep? I remember feeling something like this a long time ago
These are certainly interesting times, aren’t they? So much is changing, and so fast. I think we are all starting to feel the loss of fellowship and communal worship. When it comes to being the church, the things that formed the foundations of our spiritual life are suddenly …. different. All the truths remain, but in a new context, with new rules, less organizational structure and less ‘official’ spiritual oversight. How do you “do” church when you can’t “do church”
Mar 13
2020
Fear
Well, we certainly live in interesting times. The stock market is tumbling and major sports events are canceled for the foreseeable future as the ominous clouds of the coronavirus begin to fill our horizon. It is clear that people are afraid
Feb 28
2020
Completing Work
Last night I was reading through Philippians 1 as part of my devotions. I began my approach to this chapter with a simple question: what in this passage causes me to want to worship God more? One of the things that I fixed on was the assertion