by Joel Arnold | 14 Sep 2023 | Devotionals from the President
“Who needs formal education? We have the internet and more books than we can read. Why can’t I just educate myself by reading?” The view has a certain appeal to it. Getting access to enough information is certainly not our problem in 2023! But already, it points to a...
by Laura Talbert | 22 Mar 2021 | Devotionals from the President
By Pastor Bud Talbert The phrase “I am the LORD your God” is found forty-two times in the Old Testament, twenty-one in Leviticus alone. Just as Yahweh, the personal name of God indicated in English by all capital letters, is Israel’s God instead of all the Egyptian...
by Laura Talbert | 17 Feb 2021 | Devotionals from the President
by Pastor Bud Talbert Exodus 2:23-23 is explaining part of the prelude that led up to God delivering the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. ESV “23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried...
by Laura Talbert | 20 Jan 2020 | Devotionals from the President, Uncategorized
by Pastor Bud Talbert I am looking over the fourteen-day forecast. The evening lows are -25-30 degrees Celsius (which translates for our American friends to -13-22 degrees Fahrenheit)! Thankfully, the forecast for precipitation (i.e. only snow) hovers for the entire...
by Laura Talbert | 3 Jan 2020 | Devotionals from the President
I finish my prayer time about every other day by thanking God in the words of Psalm 145:1-3 “I will extol You, my God and King, and bless Your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless You and praise Your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly...
by Laura Talbert | 5 Dec 2019 | Devotionals from the President
by Pastor Bud Talbert One virtue that spiritual maturity produces is patient continuance in well doing (Rom 2:7). Paul admonishes the Ephesians to keep alert with all perseverance (6:18 ESV). The term used here means to persist in an undertaking or circumstance. James...
