EDITOR’S NOTE: Pastor Ron Merrell, my close friend and fellow contributor here at Miscellaneous Ramblings, recently completed a 3-part sermon series on friendship at Connection Pointe, the church in Brownsburg, Indiana where he is their teaching pastor. As usual, he knocked it out of the park! His messages’ value to the Body of Christ is invaluable. Because of… Read More »
Introduction Several years ago, our church’s guest speaker was a former pastoral staff member, a Calvinist-Baptist minister closely aligned with John MacArthur and John Piper doctrinally. His message centered on the illness, death, burial, and raising-from-the-dead of Lazarus in Bethany recorded in John 11. His sermon remarks opened with the statement “God will disappoint us” and then continued with… Read More »
Happy About Sadness This is a happy read. And yet, how can an article about sadness be happy? It’s the dichotomy of the thing. We’re all happy and we’re all sad. We’re overwhelmed with too much and simultaneously saddled with a sense that we don’t have enough. We’re ready to tackle the day ahead and ready to take… Read More »
