From Acts 2 – Peter is speaking to the crowds in Jerusalem at Pentecost, attesting to what had happened just a few days before, but prophesied by David hundreds of years before in Psalm 16. “…Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did…
A great hymn, written by John Newton, and very applicable today. I’m looking forward to hearing Matthew Smith sing it in person tonight. THO’ troubles assailAnd dangers affright,Tho’ friends should all failAnd foes all unite;Yet one thing secures us,Whatever betide,The scripture assures us,The LORD will provide. The birds without barnOr storehouse are fed,From them let…
Julius Homer Ackerman woke up in heaven on Saturday, November 3, 2018. Julius, born in Muskegon in 1924 to Clare and Pearl (Curry) Ackerman, lived in the Muskegon and Fruitport area most of his life, spending the last three years in Cheboygan. He served in World War II from 1943 – 1946 in the South…
Going through some cluttered drawers I came upon this short tape from the mid-80s, when the Lansing State Journal went from an afternoon to a morning paper. I’ve thought about that move for a long time. With the change from an after school to before school schedule, we pretty much signed the death-knell for youth…
John R W Stott sums up the beatitudes perfectly with these words. The beatitudes paint a comprehensive portrait of a Christian disciple. We see him first alone on his knees before God, acknowledging his spiritual poverty and mourning over it. This makes him meek or gentle in all his relationships, since honesty compels him to…
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” I’m not a Greek scholar, so I don’t know for sure, but I can’t help but think this has a past, present, and future perspective to it. Kind of like this: Happy are the merciful, for they have already received mercy Blessed are the merciful, for…
