BACK IN JAPAN “Deetaaa!” shouted our five year old Madagascar “surrogate grandson” Lova, as he came charging toward me, jumping into my arms and not letting go of me during the whole lunch hour on our first Sunday back at the Sapporo International Church! Not quite so dramatic, but just as endearing and warm, was...
My name is Sinaia Smith and I’m a new contributor to Grace Notes. I have wanted to get involved in the church for a while now, and recently I was given the opportunity to do just that through a ministry called “Heart for the Disabled.” “Heart for the Disabled” is a Christian ministry for disabled...
If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:31a-32) I recently finished reading a book titled The Whole Christ, by Sinclair Ferguson. The book is...
This Sunday’s Sermon: Knowing the Holy Spirit February 19, 2017 Scripture Reading: John 14:15-18
Using as a guide the book entitled “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones It is reasonable to see from what we have covered so far that our Lord is giving us a description of the character and disposition of the Christian person. So now that this Christian person is born...
“Man”, said my friend, “of all the options you have, it seems like you’re taking the most challenging one.” He was probably right. He had spent the better part of the past 4 years in Lima, Peru, and I had finally followed him down to check out the “Lima Life” for myself. After two months...
Therefore rid yourselves of all malice and deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, how that you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, the living stone,…you also like living stones,...
