by Bro. Michael | Feb 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
What is often obscured from view by the fervent activity and heated debate about social justice is that there will be no righteous community unless Christ reigns there, for He reigns by God’s righteous covenant. It is only at Christ’s table, eating the bread and...
by Bro. Michael | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
“The more we look at Christ in His Word the more we will look like Him in this world.” That’s what I meant to say, and it would have been a great little ditty to write down in the margins next to 2 Corinthians 3:18. It is entirely likely I got this...
by Bro. Michael | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
In my beard-induced haze on Sunday morning, I forgot where I was going somewhere around my fifth sub-sub-point. I offer these leftovers which could have been served up from the pulpit. It is true that Christ, in an Uncle Sam kind of way, points at each one of us and...
by Bro. Michael | Oct 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
“The most encouraging thing anyone has ever said to me about my church family was, ‘It’s quite hard being a couple in this church.’ [smile… audience laughs] I was thrilled, in a very ungodly way.” Does that sound confusing? Ed Shaw...
by Bro. Michael | Jul 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Preaching has its perils. By preaching, I mean expository preaching. When my job is to preach the message of the text, rather than preach my message with some texts, all sorts of casualties occur. My understanding of how things happened in the Bible, my notions of how...
