This was an introductory lesson I taught to our elementary children last Sunday ( 2/16/20). We had wonderful dialogue about the passages and stories below, a...

The Psalms were a huge part of the early church’s life and worship together. They were meant to be a huge part of our church life and worship as well. This i...

In preparation for our Good Friday service, I sensed the need to put on one sheet as many of the purpose statements as I could find of why Jesus had to die o...

In preparation for Holy Week, I sensed the need for a tool to help us in our meditations on the greatness of our sin that required and led to the greatness o...

We are doing a six week or so sermon series on the Holy Spirit here at The Well – Los Osos, so I thought it might be helpful to see what leaders of the churc...

My objective below was to try to find as many scriptures as I could that speak to the authority and reliability of scripture. Like many of my surveys from Ge...

King David is the only person in scripture deemed as “a man after God’s own heart” (Acts 13:22). I suppose there are a number of reasons why God esteems him...

These promises have been a great encouragement to me over the years to talk less and pray more, though I still need to talk less and pray more. I trust they w...

One of the most glorious ongoing works of our great Savior Jesus Christ is that He is continually cleansing His church from all of our unrighteousness and de...

I. For knowing Christ – A. “Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.” L...

Greetings Husbands: I originally developed this as a pre-marital counseling tool minus the prayer requests. Then when I realized in June of 2017 that I was t...

“At the Lord’s Table” by Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 “Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face; Here would I touch and handle things unseen, Here grasp with ...

It is absolutely critical for we disciples of Jesus Christ to be grounded in the truth of both our sin nature and our new nature or identity in Christ. Only w...

I handed out this primer yesterday in our service as a resource for those longing to experience Christ more at His table! I. Communion Passages: Jesus – Ma...

Matt. 26:26-30 – – “While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this...

When planning a wedding with a couple this list has come in handy. Pre-processional (music) Lighting of Candles Processional (music) Seating of Grandmothe...

January 3, 2017 “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beau...

One of the ways God chooses to bless and minister to people is through our words of blessing. Our words have power especially when spoken in faith and when s...

Because truth has such a transforming effect on the lives of Jesus followers, Satan is always trying to pervert or corrupt it. A great or sad example of tha...

We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again. Dr. G. Campbell
 Tom Malone A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life. Andrew Murray When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spi