Pastor's Blog
Church Fellowship
As we’ve been studying Ephesians, it’s been emphasized that the church is to exist as a body that joins together in Jesus Christ. We are not saved to be lone-wolf Christians, but a part of the body and the eye cannot say it does not need the hand. The living stones of which the church is built (that would be us) must be joined together for the church to grow. Yet we do not want a mere formal or institutional unity,…
Our Covenant Children
What is it that parents want for their children? We want them to be healthy. We want them to not only do well in school, but to continue to have a love of learning. We want them to be hard-working and obedient. Those are good desires, yet that’s not any different from what unbelievers want for their children. As Christians, we should want something more. In fact, as we believe in the immortality of the soul, the reality of heaven…
The Lord’s Day~Evening Worship
Since we are resuming evening worship, this is a good opportunity to discuss why we have evening worship, especially when many churches do not. I want to highlight three reasons why we as a session want to include this practice in our life as a church body. First, as the 4th commandment states, we believe that the Lord has given us six days in which to do all our work and pleasure, but the seventh belongs to the Lord. We don’t want…
Rebuilding What Was Torn Down
In my daily Bible reading I recently finished the book of Nehemiah and its relevance to us was not lost on me. The book of Nehemiah takes places around 450 BC. It’s about the returning exiles rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem that the Babylonians had destroyed over a century earlier. The city of God was in ruins and it was time to rebuild it for the glory of God and the protection of God’s people. In many respects its foreign…
Where Do We Begin?
I want to thank all of you at Covenant of Grace for the love that you all have extended to my family and me these past couple of weeks and months. We have been overwhelmed by your messages of love, offers of help, and the many ways y’all have already assisted us in this time of transition. We are excited to be joining you and cannot wait to be among you as our new church family! Right now, my wife…