Crabtree Valley Baptist Church

Establishing and maintaining a daily devotional life is as important to a Christian as eating food to nourish our body every day.  The problem, so often, is that we take extreme care to feed our bodies but are more negligent

Some books are made to read from cover to cover, straight through. Other books grab you with such profoundness that it is impossible to whiz right through them.  Gordon MacDonald’s book, “Ordering Your Private World,” fits into the last category. 

“There is a reason the rearview mirror is small and the windshield is big.” I’m not sure when I first heard that statement or read it somewhere. Where I first encountered it is not important.  I did and I’m glad. 

In Psalm 19:13 we find an interesting, if not thought provoking, adjective of sin – “presumptuous sin.”  The Psalmist is praying and asking God to keep him back or hold him back from presumptuous sin. He expands that thought asking

Why is it important to be a member of the church?  I’ll be the first to admit that I can find nothing in the Bible that says you have to be a member of the church.  Church membership does not