Devotional – “Christian Music” – 10/29/2025

Most folks today think “Christian music” is anything they can hear on stations like K-love or SiriusXM. Many churches have full rock bands that get the blood and emotions pumping. Long gone are the days of singing psalms and traditional hymns. Let me be open: I listen to K-love and SiriusXM (the message) when driving … More Devotional – “Christian Music” – 10/29/2025

Devotional – “The Church’s Great Need” – 10/11/2025

The title of today’s devotional at first had me thinking only one? Surely churches have many needs, but after reading it I realized that applied to the main mandate of “the Church” being “make disciples of all nations” given by Christ to his disciples following his death and resurrection (Matt. 28:16–20; Mark 16:15–18; Luke 24:46–49; John 20:21–23; Acts 1:8), … More Devotional – “The Church’s Great Need” – 10/11/2025

Weekly worship attendance or ‘almost weekly,’

Gallup: About one-third of Americans attend worship weekly or ‘almost weekly,’ a drop from 2001-03 By Mark A. Kellner – The Washington Times – Monday, March 25, 2024 The percentage of Americans who attend weekly worship services has fallen sharply over the past 20 years, a new Gallup poll shows. Thirty percent of respondents said they attend services weekly or … More Weekly worship attendance or ‘almost weekly,’

Devotional Thought -“Liberalism” – 03/21/2024

Liberalism (theological). Movement in Protestant theology since the nineteenth century that is dominated by the goal of modifying Christianity so as to make it consistent with modern culture and science. Liberalism rejects the traditional view of Scripture as an authoritative propositional revelation from God in favor of a view that sees revelation as a record … More Devotional Thought -“Liberalism” – 03/21/2024

Grace to You Blog Series – Reformation

. Many folks today get very defensive (or offensive) whenever someone mentions theology with one of the following attached; Calvinism, Covenant, Luther, or Reformed. Yet had the priestly honorable Luther not posted his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church on October 31, 1517, Christianity as we know it today would be much different.  It … More Grace to You Blog Series – Reformation

Why So Many Are Choosing Couches Over Pews

Today, the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns seems, at least to most of us, like an extended nightmare of yesterday. However, some of the ways that our lives changed have stuck with us. For example, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans working primarily from home has tripled since 2019. Many people will never go … More Why So Many Are Choosing Couches Over Pews

Devotional Thought for Today – 12/12/2022

1 CORINTHIANS 12 Chapter CONTEXT from MHCC: In this chapter the apostle, I. Considers the case of spiritual gifts, which were very plentifully poured out on the Corinthian church. He considers their original, that they are from God; their variety and use, that they were all intended for one and the same general end, the … More Devotional Thought for Today – 12/12/2022