Pastor’s Weekly Update

of jars, thorns, and grace

“The gospel tells us that our belovedness will never change according to our wanderings. But our belovedness is intended to change our wanderings.” —Jay Stringer June 28, 2024 2 Corinthians is a letter that deals with difficulty and suffering. The…

a very presbyterian family

“There is no righteousness that makes us right with God except for the righteousness of Christ. But for those who have been made right with God by grace alone through faith alone and therefore have been adopted into God’s family,…

have you not known?

“We must make a great difference between God’s Word and the word of man. A man’s word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth,…

on bears, wisdom, and folly

“To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.” —John Calvin May 31, 2024 Ever since Genesis 3 and the fall of man, humanity has been on a perpetual search for wisdom. Life in a…

(super)natural people

“This is the secret of being content: to learn and accept that we live daily by God’s unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.”—Jerry…