In the New Testament, Christ’s 2nd Coming is mentioned close to 300 times. One out of every 13 verses is about the 2nd Coming. But it’s never brought up to get you to speculate about the End. Let me share what Jesus said regarding His 2nd Coming in the last days of His 1st Coming […]
Matt Boyd is one of the Detroit Tigers’ better young pitchers. He was selected in the 6th round of the 2013 Amateur Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays from Oregon State University. He was traded to Detroit on July 30, 2015 in the David Price trade. He won his first Major League game for the […]
One night, a shoemaker named Conrad had a dream that the next day Jesus was coming to his humble shop. He got up early the next morning, and went to the woods to gather green boughs to decorate his shop, in order to receive so great a guest. He waited all morning, and the only […]
In 1928, a very interesting case came before the courts in Massachusetts. It concerned a man who had been walking on a boat dock, when suddenly he tripped over a rope and fell into the cold, deep water of an ocean bay. He came up sputtering and yelling for help and then sank again, obviously […]
On March 16, 2018 Coach Tony Bennett and his University of Virginia men’s basketball team made history by losing to the University of Maryland- Baltimore County. They became the 1st #1 seed team to ever lose to a #16 seed team in The NCAA Basketball Tournament. The potential for embarrassment and criticism could not have […]
In the past six weeks, a group of us at our church have been going through a training class in intercessory prayer using the Lord’s prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) as the basis for the course. We are using Dr. David Chotka’s devotional study “Power Praying” with the subtitle ‘Hearing Jesus’ Spirit by Praying Jesus’ Prayer‘. It […]
Tomorrow is The Epiphany in the Christian calendar. It is celebrated twelve days after Christmas. Epiphany literally means ‘revealing‘. In the Christmas season of Advent, we prepare ourselves for the coming of God’s glorious light into the world – His Son Jesus. In John 1:18 we read these words: “No one has ever seen God, but the one […]
In our Advent series this Christmas season, we have been looking at Jesus’s “I Am” sayings from the Gospel of John. We started the Advent messages a week early, so we have already looked at four of Jesus’s “I Am” proclamations: ‘I Am the Resurrection and the Life’; ‘I Am the Bread of Life’; ‘I […]
Every Friday night our church hosts a youth floor hockey outreach at John MacWilliam Public School in our neighborhood. It attracts kids 9 to 13 years old from both our church and the surrounding community. We have several dads playing as well with the youth. It is a great time of floor hockey and good […]
I have now been a Pastor for 25 years. The word “Pastor” derives from the Greek word “poimen” meaning “shepherd”. The Pastor is called to shepherd and nurture a local church which is made up of believers in the Chief Shepherd, Jesus. He not only calls himself the Good Shepherd (John 10:11,14), but Christians also believe […]