Grace Bible Church, Holden, Maine

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8″All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness.” 2 Tim 3:16 In yesterday’s post, I presente…

“The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.” Pro. 21: 31Today I wish to speak of an important topic: how do we use the bible to grow in grace?  I know that the bible can be a confusing and huge book fo…

Almost 25 years ago I had a serious crisis of faith.  No, I did not come to doubt the existence of God!  I came to understand that what I believed and trusted in did not answer the real questions of life.  Looking back, I can see how God…

It has been quite awhile since I wrote on the theme of calling.  Today I plan to return to this important subject.  I wish to explore a bit of the evolving clarity that comes with calling.  All to often, I believe people think their call…

“Prepare plans by consultation,and make war by wise guidance” Proverbs 20:19Have you met anyone who is a fool recently?  Have you been the fool?  I know that much of my life, I have been a fool.  All to often I have had to learn the…

I believe I have just discovered an interesting feature of google.  Yesterday I posted on an important and contemporary cultural issue.  The result was that I had absolutely no google searches which led to my blog.  This has not happened…

“Worldliness is believing good to be evil and evil to be good.”Yesterday was an historic day for the homosexual lobby.  For thirty five years, this political lobby has forcefully placed itself at the point of the spear in terms of politics and mor…

In our hyper therapeutic milieu, people want professionals to do something to them to make them feel better.  Living through life, meeting the demands of following Jesus, living under the lordship of of holy God doesn’t appeal to the general publi…

Today might be a rare day where I post twice.  First, I wish to conclude my thoughts about culture, cultural longing, and the gospel.In the past couple of posts, I have been looking at an excerpt from an article written by Peggy Noonan concerning …

I will begin this week by continuing a thought I presented on Saturday.  I encourage you to read that post as it will help make sense of this one.  I wish to address the questions of why do cultures change, and how should these changes be und…