Uplifted Eyes  –  Psalm 123

We are told in the inscription of this Psalm that this is one of the “Songs of Degrees.”  The meaning of that phrase is a mystery, but there are several possibilities.  One opinion is that with each of these fifteen special psalms there is a slight rise in spiritual...

April 2023

Dear Pastor and Church Resurrection Sunday We had a wonderful service on Ester Sunday morning with sixteen in attendance, special music, and a sermon entitled, “The Role of the Hoy Spirit in the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.”  Three of the four...

Boats for Christ – Mark 4:35-41

A couple months ago, I was re-reading Alfred Edersheim’s classic study of Christ – “Jesus the Messiah.” In the course of discussing Mark 4, and the other gospels about this event, he made a passing comment. For some reason or other it caught my eye, so I put the...

May 21

In 1882, while razing an old adobe church building in Santa Fe, New Mexico – a building which had been used by the Presbyterians for years – the demolition team found the original cornerstone. On it, along with other information, was the date May 21, 1853. It proved...

The City at the Top of the Hill – Psalm 48:1-14

I have been using this particular Bible for decades. I may have had it even before I moved here in 1990. As I’ve told you before it is a Thompson Chain edition of our old King James. I don’t know anything about Mr. Thompson, but I would guess that he was a fundamental...

Ye are the Salt of the Earth – Matthew 5:1-16

It must be remembered that this Sermon on the Mount was delivered by Christ to His disciples. This was a sermon to Christians – believers – those already redeemed. It was not shared as a gospel message with instructions for the salvation of the wicked. This isn’t a...

Christ the Door 

If you have a computer, and if you use email, then from time to time you get spam advertisements.  I got one of those, trying to entice me to buy someone’s specialty mats to put at our front door.  Their gimmick was in the interesting logo’s printed on them.  The...

May 14

Evan Jones was born on this day in 1789. We don’t have any information on when he was born again. In 1821, after he moved from England to this country, he and his wife began a ministry as missionaries to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. For ten years prior to...

Selah – Psalm 46:1-11

Three times in this Psalm, God’s penman uses the word “selah.” That word is found 77 times in the Bible, with all of them in the Psalms except for twice in Habakkuk. Only once is it ever used other than at the end of a verse, and most of the time it marks the end of a...