On this Wednesday, what are you in need of? The list very well may be long, but at the top must be the Lord. He is what you need more than anything else. He created you, He’s sustaining you, and He’s made a way for you to be saved. Even those who right now either reject that they have a need of…
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CONNECT people to Christ and POUR into their lives His teaching so they'll OVERFLOW for the glory of God
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Did anybody ever sign your yearbook with, “Don’t ever change!”? That was pretty common in my neck of the woods, but what terrible advice! I once heard a man say that the only folks that don’t like to be changed are babies. Change can certainly be a bad thing, but when we change as God would have us to change, in fact,…
Most folks outside of Westside Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, FL, where Bob Hadley pastors, probably don’t know who Bob Hadley is. That’s not a put down because most folks outside of West Main Baptist Church in Alexandria, TN, where I pastor, don’t know who Ben Simpson is. Bob Hadley and I are like the great majority of pastors in the world:…
Good Wednesday to you! I pray that the coming of summer just around the corner has you amazed by the common grace of God. I know it has done so for me! Today I want to share one of the tenderest songs sung from the heart of a worshiper to Jesus. It’s an old one, but my goodness, it captures the heart…
Although we just closed up the season of Eastertide with last Sunday being Pentecost Sunday, I want to do one more resurrection song. Of course, since every Sunday is a reminder of Jesus’ resurrection, these songs never go out of “season”! Today’s worship song is a dandy! The arrangement, the accompaniment, the words themselves, and the content of the lyrics are joy-filled…
It was the fictional David Banner who matter-of-factly stated, “Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” Anger was what triggered Banner’s transformation into the Incredible Hulk. Indeed, Dr. Banner, you are a bit hard to like when you’re angry! Anger is a human emotion that every single person experiences. Some are more prone to externalize it by blowing…
Today is the 6th Wednesday of Eastertide, the 50-day Christian season between Easter and Pentecost Sunday, which is May 19 this year. We’ll continue to focus on Resurrection songs until then. I want to take us back to 1863 today. It was in that year that Charitie Bancroft penned the lyrics to this powerful song. This Irish writer was not prolific in…
Two Sundays ago, I began preaching through the book of Philippians. What an awesome word from God to us! For my first sermon, I focused in on v1:6, For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. That verse is one of the most encouraging…
It’s the third Wednesday after Easter, which means we are still in the church season of Eastertide (the fifty-day season of Christian celebration from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday). My friend Trevin Wax recently wrote about this very important church tradition that I honestly had never really thought about. He wrote: By Thanksgiving, radio stations will be playing Christmas music non-stop. In…
On this day, we remember that sometime between sundown on Thursday and and sunrise on Friday, Jesus was arrested and tried by the Jewish authorities. The sad irony is that the eternal High Priest who is Jesus Christ was rejected by the Jewish High Priest Caiaphas. 57 Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the…