Dear friends in Christ, Worship flows from faith.  You cannot worship the Triune God without faith–that is, faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  Faith is not just of the head (knowledge)–faith is also of the heart (trust, dependence on God, stuck to Him and His Word like glue).  Faith desires the gifts […]

Dear redeemed in Christ, As we draw near to Holy Week and the Hope-packed Easter season, I encourage you to make an extra effort to pay very close attention to the words in our hymns.  Our rich hymnody provides us with many, many hymns that are not only a joy to sing (I know we are still getting used to […]

Dear Christian friends,      Do you see each other–fellow Christians–as “friends”?  The love that is ours in Christ is love that we ought to have for one another.  Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).  Of course, that’s the kind of love Jesuss showed […]

Dear ones, bought with a price, The Holy Spirit declares: “You were bought with a price” (1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23). You have been redeemed by the price of something unearthly–by which I mean not by anything temporal or worldly–not silver, not gold, not the works of striving sinful beings; you have been redeemed by that which is […]