It’s been quite a year in our church body. There have been new families who have joined our church family, lots of new babies and even grandbabies, and new life in Christ as we witnessed and celebrated baptisms. But it hasn’t been without its share of suffering and loss and grief. As individuals, as families, as brothers and sisters in Christ who are an integral part of this local church family, we have witnessed suffering together on a magnified scale. Amongst other hardship

How does a city boy prepare to pastor a small church in rural Nevada? He doesn’t. Not really. Not in the ways that matter. I came out of Los Angeles, trained at Grace Community Church—a congregation of ten thousand people where ministry ran on rails. If I needed something for a Bible study, children’s ministry, or Sunday School, it was available before I finished asking. I led home Bible studies, taught Sunday School, and led music for an Awana program with more than 250 ch

Introduction Ask any biblically informed Christian whether the Fourth Commandment (Ex. 20:8ff; Deut. 5:12ff) is binding on New Covenant...

Suggested reading: Psalm 1:1-6; Genesis 1:1-2:25; Matthew 1:1-25; Proverbs 1:1-2 Reading Genesis 1 and Matthew 1 on the same day was a...

There has been recent interest in the theological notion of the ordo amoris in light of Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent use of the...