Posts from February 2023
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Dear Friends, For years now, many of us have looked at the condition of our culture and concluded that the only hope we have is for a spiritual awakening. The strife and division we see in our land today feels a lot like what we experienced in America in 1969 and 1970. In the midst of the turmoil of those days, God sent a revival – what we now look back on as the Jesus Movement. Those of us who lived…
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Dear Friends, I’m sure it’s no surprise to you that in our day, for the most part, if you are known as someone who believes the Bible is God’s authoritative, infallible and inerrant word, most cultural leaders will regard you as unenlightened at best and in some circles, as a hatful bigot, regardless of how gentle and kind you might seem to be. Pastor Kevin DeYoung says “the world wants to press us into its mold, and that mold is getting…
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Dear Friends, Last fall, someone walked into Joe’s Service Center, a Mobile gas station in Altadena CA and bought a Powerball lottery ticket with the numbers 10 33 41 47 56 and 10. And when those numbers came upon Monday, November 7, the Powerball officials declared “we have a winner.” Three months later, we still don’t know who that winner is. When you’ve hit the jackpot – in this case, the $2.04 billion dollar jackpot – it can take some time for…