Crabtree Valley Baptist Church

While the Apostle Paul was on his missionary journeys, he encountered many cities that considered themselves “religious centers”.  They were recognized as such because the people who lived there worshipped many gods.  Perhaps the greatest “religious center” of all was

T.Z. Koo tells of his experience during an air raid in the days when the Japanese sent planes in wave after wave over China.  “We had to go out into the fields because we had no dugouts in the city.

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