Beloved Brothers and Sisters: In a recent Desiring God post, Jonathan Parnell talks about anger (What our Anger is Telling Us).  He talks about the connection between anger and love; anger as the response when something acts against the thing we love.  This is a very reveling thought; it really helps us understand the difference […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters: Philippians 4:4-9 (NASB95) 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters: There are times when we each need a wake-up-call to the reality of what is going on around us.  Times when the culture around us reaches a new point of acceptance and even praise of evils we like to forget exist.  This week we got such a wake-up-call in the form […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters: This week I wanted to share the words to perhaps my favorite poem.  In fact it is a hymn as well, though I have no idea what it was originally intended to sound like.  It is called “God Moves in a Mysterious” Way by William Cowper, written in the  late 1700’s. […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters: If you have been following along with our Scripture reading schedule you know we are currently reading through the book of the Judges.  I remember a time when reading of the faithlessness of Israel and the ease in which they bowed down in worship of idols gave me a sense of […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters: As we look forward to celebrating Resurrection Sunday this week, take advantage of this special reminder to meditate on the absolutely essential nature of the resurrection of our Lord.  Our faith is unavoidably bound to the supernatural; without the miraculous, without God becoming a man and then being raised from the […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters: In reading a book by Joel Beeke on Christian zeal, I became convicted by my all-too-often lack of zeal.  What excuse can we have for a lack of zeal for our God when the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, minds, soul, […]

A Note From Brother Ken: Beloved Brothers and Sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ at Maynardville Fellowship, So good to be with you last night, although we missed many. Thank you Noah for faithfully leading us and faithfully sharing this with our visitors. I believe the Scripture above is an Old Testament allusion to the […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters Something from Matt’s sermon last Sunday has stuck with me.  So often we get something in our mind, even something good and noble, and when the reality we experience does not line up with what we had in our mind, we do not know how to reconcile the difference.  I have […]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters I heard someone say recently that the world is on the brink of World War III, but everyone seems more concerned with the mystery of a missing jet, and the president of the supposed most powerful country on earth is spending his time filling out his bracket for the NCAA tournament.  […]