Pastor John Scripture Reference: II Samuel 21:1-14, 24:1-25

  When Bill and Margie went to see a lawyer, they did not expect to get spiritual advice. All they wanted was help filing for divorce. After disputes over how to manage their meager income, their roles in marriage, and how to raise their children, the couple tired of attempts at reconciliation. Compounding the problem, Bill was having an affair. Yet providentially they sought assistance from a charitable Christian legal service organization in New Mexico, where their lawyer refused to proceed with a divorce until he was satisfied that biblical grounds existed and that they had made reasonable attempts to […]

  John Chrysostom served the early Church as elder, deacon, chief preacher, and, finally, in A.D. 397, as Bishop of Constantinople. Renowned as an outstanding preacher, here he offers advice for people looking for a spouse. Husbands are to look for godliness first, not outward beauty.

  At an 1857 meeting of the Suffolk District Medical Society in Massachusetts, a young doctor, Horatio Robinson Storer, raised the uncomfortable topic of abortion, which was illegal, but common, at the time. He cited the cases of 15 women whom he had treated in the preceding six months for the procedure’s terrible effects.1 He noted widespread ignorance of the fact that the fetus was a human being from the earliest stages of pregnancy. But this was no excuse. Indeed, Storer emphasized the “moral and absolute guilt of the parties offending” and called upon physicians to “show to the community […]

  18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breast fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? 21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. Proverbs 5:18-21 (ESV)

Mr Bill Mills Scruipture Refference II Corinthians 13

   Andrew Kent was rock climbing with his son in the UK’s Langdale Pikes when a boulder fell on his leg, breaking it in five places. He was rushed to the hospital, but the fractures were so severe that three operations could not repair them. The wounds became badly infected, and doctors warned that his leg might have to be amputated – yet hope existed; they could attempt a new procedure to repair the bones using his own stem cells. When Kent consented, an orthopedic surgeon removed stem cells from bone marrow in his hip and mixed them with a […]

   While teaching at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Clive Staples Lewis became well known for his writings in Christian apologetics. One of his best-known works today, Mere Christianity, is a publication that combines three of his earlier works, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality. In his discussion on Christian behavior, Lewis makes a profound observation linking the Church’s hope of heaven directly to her ability to improve and better the world today.

  Announcing an all-church seminar on Deepening Relationships with One Another on Sunday, February 21 with Bill Mills. Please register by call the church office, 410-642-6865. Lunch: 12-12:30 Session 2 12-2pm Session 3 2:15-3:45pm

   In 1787, a few concerned students met for prayer at Virginia’s Hampden-Sydney College. None were particularly active Christians, yet their concern for the college’s low moral state led them to beseech God’s help. Initially it did not go well. Disturbed by a band of unruly classmates, they locked themselves in a room. Eventually the institution’s president rebuked the rowdies and invited the prayer warriors into his study. There they prayed until revival fell and more than half of the student body professed conversion to faith in Christ. Unbeknownst to those students, the spiritual awakening at Hampden-Sydney would spark similar […]