Encouragement to help you through the week.
Beloved, Over the last few weeks, Vos has been on a rhyming kick, asking me daily questions like, “Dad, does finger rhyme with singer?” He’s inspired me to set aside my alliterative tendencies and give rhyming a shot as we consider…
Beloved, Last week, our President and Vice President met with the President of Ukraine to sign a deal that was proposed as a path to ending the war. But to everyone’s surprise, the deal wasn’t signed. Whatever you think about Trump…
Beloved, Since the beginning of 2025, sickness has been making its rounds through our church in a peculiarly potent way. In light of that, I thought I would share what the Lord has been teaching me through my prolonged respiratory illness. At…
Beloved, Last Sunday morning, I had the experience of preaching to a room full of people suffering from severe sleep deprivation. Some of the winter camp participants had not gone to bed until 7:00 a.m. that morning, having snuck out…
Beloved, Have you ever failed to sufficiently prepare for an important meeting or event? I have—more times than I can count. Sometimes, it’s due to a lack of foresight. Other times, it’s the result of being stretched too thin. But…
Beloved, The Puritan Thomas Watson once wrote, “Christ is said to speak to us from heaven now, by his ministers, as the king speaks by his ambassador. Such as wean themselves from the breast of ordinances [i.e., the public means…
Beloved, Next week we will pick up our exposition of Larger Catechism 160 as we think together about how God wills for His word to be heard. But in light of Ralph’s memorial today, I’ve decided to share an excerpt…
Beloved, Our forefathers were convinced that God’s Spirit “maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the word, an effectual means” of the salvation and sanctification of His people (Westminster Larger Catechism A. 155; emphasis mine). It is through the word…
Beloved, My friend Carl came on New Year’s Eve to hang the chandelier I told you about in last Sunday evening’s sermon (praise God for a friend who is an electrician!). He told me about a New Year’s Eve worship…
Beloved, I was reminded after last Sunday evening’s sermon that not everyone shares my eschatological views. That is easy to forget since they seem so biblically straight-forward to me! While I wish all would come to espouse the already-not-yet, happy…
Beloved, The Christian life is supernatural through and through. The apostle summarizes it beautifully: “If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit” (Gal. 5:25). The sincere disciple is one who has been born…
Beloved, I had intended to write some devotional thoughts on the grace of giving thanks today, but my lovely wife has said it much better than I ever could in a recent article for Ligonier. It seems especially fitting as…