by Daryl Updike | Apr 30, 2020 | Church, Worship
I sit here a bit saddened after the fifth Lord’s Day without corporate worship. It saddens me that many church bodies have not been able to gather as we are called to do and worship God together. Yes, many are able to use technology to in some way worship, but...
by M. Ashley Evans | Apr 17, 2020 | Salvation, Spiritual Warfare
“Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.” Jude 1:3 Beloved, We can see at the...
by Bud Ahlheim | Apr 12, 2020 | Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 Easter Sunday in the year of our Lord Two Thousand Twenty will be marked – solely we pray – as an historic, sadly memorable event in the history of the church. So...
by M. Ashley Evans | Apr 6, 2020 | Christian Living, Prayer
“Let not your burden rest upon yourselves; for ye cannot bear it, and must finally perish beneath its weight. …But, confident and full of joy, cast it from you and throw it on God, and say: Heavenly Father, thou art my Lord and God, who didst create me when I was...
by Bud Ahlheim | Mar 29, 2020 | Preaching, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” 1 Peter...
by Bud Ahlheim | Mar 22, 2020 | Preaching, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “News may come that truth is sick, but never that it is dead.” William Gurnall As the world, in its increasing and willful self-distancing from God, turned from modernism to...
by M. Ashley Evans | Mar 15, 2020 | Preaching, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “In these days, I feel bound to go over the elementary truths of the gospel repeatedly. In peaceful times, we may feel free to make excursions into interesting districts of...
by Daryl Updike | Mar 9, 2020 | Bible, Church, Evangelism
There is a passage of Scripture that seems to be very neglected in the Church these days. Many will say they agree with it but in practice, they don’t appear to be doing what they say. I’m sure this rejection is done with many passages, but the one I am...
by Bud Ahlheim | Mar 8, 2020 | Preaching, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “Judas heard all Christ’s sermons.” Thomas Goodwin The words are absolutely chilling. We ought here to find our breath halted. These words, properly apprehended, should drain...
by Bud Ahlheim | Feb 23, 2020 | Church, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “Come Get Naked With 5000 of Your Closest Friends Without Taking Off Your Clothes.” In our post-modern culture where tolerance demands there be no contradictions and no conflicts...
by Bud Ahlheim | Feb 16, 2020 | Sanctification, Spiritual Warfare, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “While all things are quiet and comfortable, we live by sense rather than faith. But the worth of a soldier is never known in times of peace.” Thomas Manton Originally published...
by M. Ashley Evans | Feb 14, 2020 | Christian Living, Sin
Come Thou Fount Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it, Mount of Thy...