Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 9:37am
Mark 16:15
Our Missions Conference is next week, and I believe the story below is a great illustration of both our desire to share the gospel with others, and how our effort is all part of our service too!
In a remote village in Central America the word got out among the peoples of the region that one of the missionaries that had served this country for many years was about to return to the US to live out the remaining years of her life.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 06/01/2023 - 12:43pm
Romans 10.14
“How..?” “and how?” “and how…?”
The answer is in the next few verses:
“…how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sat, 05/27/2023 - 9:07am
Job 23.7
Does the Bible here tell me that I can be delivered from ever being judged eternally for my sin?
I think so!
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 05/18/2023 - 8:45am
Job 10.15-16
This sounds like someone is just complaining again, but it’s not. No, this is going to a level most of us will NEVER see…
“mine affliction… it increaseth…”
This is Job. He knew the Lord. He was a perfect (mature) and upright man. Job feared the Lord. He loved the Lord, and he hated evil. He was a good husband and father and made sacrifices for his family. He was also kind, wealthy, and a generous leader in his community.
Then the day came that he lost everything.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:47am
Nehemiah 9.37
I never noticed these verses before. Sin had made the people of Israel slaves in their own land! “Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 05/04/2023 - 10:13am
Psalm 27.1
That word: “is...”, that little word with just two letters, “is...”
“The LORD is...” What exactly should it mean to us?
Well for me, it’s sometimes very important that I realize “The LORD is...”
Yes, the LORD was, and He always will be. The LORD God, our Lord Jesus Christ - Eternal. It’s one of His attributes (character/qualities). And it’s an amazing attribute! He has always been, and He will always be!
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 11:03am
2 Samuel 22.36
These two words are often seen to be poles apart - the words gentle and great.
Every time I read this verse I have to stop and think about the gentleness of God, and the gentleness of Christ and how I too should be gentle in sharing the gospel with the lost, in helping Christians grow in grace. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 10:1 “Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ...”
David said, “...thy gentleness hath made me great.”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 04/19/2023 - 9:45am
1 Timothy 1.11
The “easy to see good news”.
I use a wall calendar here in Australia called the “easy2C” (easy to see) Calendar, and I think it’s a good
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Fri, 04/14/2023 - 9:06am
2 Samuel 24:10
This scares me, and it should scare you…
David confesses here that he had sinned, he had “sinned greatly”. His confession to God is a good example to us. But this also makes me fear, when I realize that David was about 70 years old when he “sinned greatly”!
A few things come to my mind:
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 04/06/2023 - 4:12pm
Proverbs 15.29b
Do we ever pray, and it feels like our prayers just bounce off of the ceiling? Are there time we pray and it doesn’t feel like we are praying? Do we pray sometimes and forget that we have even prayed?
As normal people we often go around and around with something as abstract as prayer but - for those who are saved and living “right” (righteous) God always hears their prayers and is ready to answer according to His will.
“he heareth the prayer of the righteous”
