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Sunday is a comin’! (by S.M. Lockridge)

How to Abide and How to hear God’s will

Timothee Mottin owns a café-restaurant in the French Alps and has gathered a collection of items from mishaps on the Mont Blanc glacier. His most recent find is copies of Indian newspapers with headlines for 1966 when Indira Gandhi became India’s first woman prime minister. The papers were probably aboard…

In March, 2019 two doctors from a hospital in Papua New Guinea spoke at a church in the United States telling the congregation about a critical need for teachers in their school for missionary children. Though neither had ever been on a mission trip, except for a brief trip to Mexico or Canada, Kathy…

With every new administration, there is hope that change will make a difference, even if it simply means trying out a new strategy. At the beginning of this year as President Trump took office, he had great hope that his son-in-law Jared Kushner, himself a Jew, would be able broker peace in the Middle…

A California man, who was lost out of bounds at a ski area, says he credits the ski patrol and his faith in God for his rescue. Michael Nessi said that after he became lost, he had intermittent cell service and was finally able to text his wife, but no one knew exactly where he was. While waiting in…

Imagine going to Chicago on a business trip. You have a bunch of meetings and have plans to fly out right after your last meeting to meet your family in some great vacation spot. Your meetings run late and you know it is going to be a challenge to get to the airport and get checked in so you can make…

What does the Lord mean by referring to himself as the door? There is a beautiful story about the great preacher G. Campbell Morgan traveling across the Atlantic. As he was on the steamer, he noticed that among the passengers was Sir George Adam Smith, who was at that time the most famous Old Testament…

In the NFL offseason two men in the Denver Broncos front office were convicted of DUI. Team president, John Elway suspended both of them, but he did not fire them. When asked why Tom Heckert and Matt Russell were not fired Elway replied, “Heck, I’ve made a lot of poor decisions too. I believe in second…

This is a excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It imagines what the wise men would have encountered when they arrived at Bethlehem. The account is purely fictional, but it draws upon the promises that filled the hearts of all who believed when Jesus was born. Enjoy! That night, the Wise…

In a concert in Chicago many years ago, Harry Lauder, Scottish singer and songwriter, sang to an overflowing audience. At the conclusion, the audience stood and applauded loudly and long. After the applause subsided, the audience said in unison, “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” Showing splendid humility,…

Background: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It explores the Christian adage: Wise men still seek him. What would it be like if modern seekers were with the wise men when they worshiped Jesus? Previously, Higher-Status had expressed his fears to a Pharisee in the temple (click…

Yusuf Alchagirov is an 80-year-old Russia shepherd. While picking raspberries in a field near the Russian border with Georgia he was confronted by a large bear. Yusuf and the bear had a tussle with the shepherd continually head butting the bear. Finally the bear tossed Alchagirov off a cliff. The shepherd…

Background: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It explores the Christian adage: Wise men still seek him. What would it be like if modern seekers were with the wise men when they worshiped Jesus? Previously, Brought-Low had expressed his fears to a Pharisee in the temple (click…

Background: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It explores the Christian adage: Wise men still seek him. What would it be like if modern seekers were with the wise men when they worshiped Jesus? Brought-Low was a troubled man with a troubled past. His foolish deeds in his youthful…

The reason I am so excited about this is because I have seen it work. It was just before Christmas of 2008 when I looked at my office phone and realized I had a message. I dialed in and listened. On the other end of the line there was a voice that said, “Hello, This is Gordon. I’d like to come by and…

Many of you in this church serve so consistently and quietly that you rarely get any praise. It touches my heart every time I see some of our faithful ladies arriving early to work in the nursery or coming out during the work to clean toys, put up bulletin boards and set up their rooms. The other week…

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD – THAT’S ENOUGH *“There is an old story of two men hiking in Wales. They came across a boy in the mountains keeping his sheep. The travelers talked with him about shepherding, and the conversation went to Psalm 23. One of the men told the boy, “Think of the five fingers of your…

For years of my life I didn’t get that. I still remember hearing my mom talking about obligation. It went something like this. Because of my bitterness against the ministry, I grew up determined that I would not do some things. In fact, there were two things I said I would not do. I said I would never…

I ran across a video as I was looking through some illustrations for this message. It came from, of all places, the Chicago Bears website. It’s a clip from their rookie training camp. One of the videos shows Coach Lovie Smith’s orientation talk to the rookie class. Of course, the biggest thing on each…

To my family at Our Redeemer, Greetings in the name of the Lord! It’s been a while since the last time that I wrote you. Life at the seminary is busy—that was an understatement. I am in my final quarter before Vicarage (the year long internship portion of my seminary education) and in just three weeks…

Apologist and author Ravi Zacharias recounts a story found in Marie Chapian's book Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy (Bethany House, 1980). The book follows the Yugoslavian Christian church's suffering under a corrupt church heirarchy: One day an evangelist by the name of Jakov arrived in a certain village.…

John Newton CHOICE EXCERPTS I am not what I once was! In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, "By the grace of God—I am what I am." He remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to himself, he said: "I am not what I ought to be—ah, how…

1. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 11 2. He maketh me to lie down in greena pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.…

One person wrote of experiencing this kind of worship in a very likely place. He says: Locked behind the razor-wire fences of a Florida prison is no place to spend a holiday. I'd spent 15 Christmases under these less-than-festive conditions, but this year my situation looked even bleaker. I was stuck…