I haven’t been posting much lately as I’ve been quite busy with work and preparing for my first preaching opportunity, which I delivered today!  What a gracious God we have! Last night and early this morning I was at the end of my rope and quite sure that I was going to forget everything I had studied as I was standing before the congregation.  But all went well my I was able to read scripture clearly and deliver the message without too much trouble.  Thank you for all of you who were praying for me!

I shared the pulpit with my very good friend Mark Seitz. He spoke on Galatians and I spoke on Colossians.  After church I spent some The Pilgrims Progress and just happened to be in the section on legalism:

Therefore Mr. Worldly Wiseman is an alien, and Mr. Legality is a cheat; and for his son Civility, notwithstanding his  simpering looks, he is but a hypocrite, and cannot help thee. Believe me, there is nothing in all this noise that thou hast heard of these sottish men, but a design to beguile thee of thy salvation, by turning thee from the way in which I had set thee.

What a wonderful book, you can read it online or pick up the cheater’s version (in modern English) … which I must confess I’m reading and enjoying very much.

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