Making Sense of the Hard Times

by Pastor Ken

The Scriptures are filled with wonderful promises that bolster and strengthen our faith as we meditate on them. But sooner or later, there will come a time in our Christian lives when things go wrong, and our world gets turned upside down. It is at that point we are tempted to ask, “How do we [...]

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Death swallowed up in victory

by Pastor Ken

Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, related the following conversation in one of his blogs. The French philosopher Auguste Comte once told the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle that he planned to start a new religion to replace Christianity. “Very good,” replied Carlyle. “All you have to do is be crucified, rise [...]

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The blessing of the Ten Commandments

by Pastor Ken

The state of Alabama was in the national news several years ago over the propriety of having the Ten Commandments displayed in the state Supreme Court building in Montgomery. A long legal battle ensued and the monument was removed. But have you ever stopped to ask why God gave us the Ten Commandments in the [...]

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Why have we stopped calling sin sin?

by Pastor Ken

Why have we stopped calling sin sin? We live in a world that is becoming increasingly desensitized to sin. It is flagrantly and boastfully paraded all around us and it is raging volcano-like within us, but why don’t we call it what it is? Answers abound. We explain it away with all kinds of excuses. [...]

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Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet

by Pastor Ken

Exactly 492 years ago, on October 31, 1517, an Augustinian monk nailed to the door of the church in Wittenburg, Germany “95 Theses” or complaints against the abuses of the church in his day. Unwittingly, Martin Luther started a revolution that would rock the ecclesiastical world, and forever change the face of Western Civilization, and [...]

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The Dangers of Legalism

by Pastor Ken

Martin Luther put it well. He said, “You can fall off the horse on the right side or on the left side.” His amusing analogy was simply describing how we can err in opposite directions in living the Christian life. Nowhere is this more evident than in understanding the Christian’s relationship to God’s law. We [...]

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Have you let your spiritual guard down?

by Pastor Ken

All Christians lament the news coming out of different parts of the world concerning the persecution of fellow Christians at the hands of those who brutally mistreat them. It has been that way for a long time in some parts of the world, and it appears that our own nation is becoming less Christian-friendly. Our [...]

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The Gentleness of Christ

by Pastor Ken

The Puritan John Owen once said, “Our greatest hindrance in the Christian life is…” How would you complete his sentence? We might say our greatest hindrance is our sin, or our lack of spiritual discipline. John Owen said, “Our greatest hindrance in the Christian life is not lack of effort, but lack of acquaintance with [...]

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The difference between joy and happiness

by Pastor Ken

As another year is upon us, and we seek to gain perspective regarding all that 2009 may bring, it might be helpful to reflect on the difference between joy and happiness. Although they appear to be similar, there is an important difference. It is sometimes put this way – happiness depends on happenings, that is, [...]

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The deception of mere head knowledge

by Pastor Ken

There are probably no more horrifying words in all the Bible than when Jesus says, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness” (Matthew 7:23). Who was Jesus referring to? The context makes it clear He was referring to religious people, to those who claimed to know Him and be in a [...]

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