VBS

This was our 40th VBS at Danville. I think I had 7 prior to coming to DBC. Each year I do less and enjoy it more. This year I drove the van to pick up children, gave the kids tractor rides, helped the refreshment crew with the garbage and managed the gates. I have loved…

The Good Shepherd

Scripture No one can kill Me without My consent–I lay down My life voluntarily. I have the right and the power to lay it down when I want to and I have the right and the power to take it up again. For the Father has given Me this right. ~John 10:18, LNT Quote If…

Christ Haters

Scripture “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.”  ~John 15:18, NASB Quote Some people in the world are Christ lovers and some are Christ haters but all are fixated on Christ. ~Marilyn Monroe {I kid you not} We have a lot of naive people who think that everyone in…

John Chapter Eight

Scripture They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”  ~John 8:7, NLT Quote If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on…

Mystery And Intrigue

Scripture Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. ~Acts 13:1, NASB Quote Remember: If God can take away something you never expected to lose, He can replace it with something you never…

Suckers

Scripture He lops off every branch that doesn’t produce, and He prunes those branches that bear fruit for even more fruit. ~John 15:2, LNT Quote I never saw a fruit bearing Christian who did not abide in the word of God. ~Dwight L. Moody I don’t know much about vineyards or pruning grape vines but…