Posts from July 2025

Weekly Update – July 24th, 2025  The first time that I saw John MacArthur in person was in 2006 at the Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, KY.  The theme for this year’s conference was Expository Preaching and MacArthur’s topic was Forty Years of Faithful Ministry.  In his sermon he reflected on the foundation of his ministry set in the authority of God’s word displayed through expositional preaching.  He wasn’t flashy by any means, but he was clear, and…

Weekly Update – July 17th, 2025  On Sunday as I was reading through the 68 verses of names given to us in Nehemiah chapter 7, I began to wonder what I was doing.  Of course, I knew that I was in the middle of reading names, some of which are almost impossible to pronounce correctly, but larger than that, I began to wonder if this was crucial to what I was trying to accomplish through the preaching of the text. …

Weekly Update – July 10th, 2025  In the early morning hours of July 4, historic flash floods swept through Texas Hill Country, triggering a crisis that is still unfolding. The Guadalupe River surged 30 feet in less than 45 minutes. At least 110 people have died, most in Kerr County, and more than 1,000 people have been rescued, including over 100 by air. Search teams continue working around the clock to locate those who are still missing, which may still…

Weekly Update – July 3rd, 2025  As we continued in our series through the Old Testament book of Nehemiah on Sunday, we came to chapter 5 and the call from Nehemiah to the people of God to serve the Lord together.  The reason for this call from Nehemiah was due to the fragmented groups that were crying out for help in verses 1-5.  The first group were the poor.  They were hungry and looking for grain so that they could…