by Dewayne Spivey | Feb 20, 2024 | Pulpit Minister
My thoughts are mine! Aren’t they? One of Jane’s favorite expressions is, “I knew you were going to say that.” She loves to make me think she knows everything I’m thinking or that I’m going to say. I have to admit, she gets pretty close. But she’s not always right....
by Dewayne Spivey | Feb 6, 2024 | Pulpit Minister
I read somewhere that Proverbs is the least read book in all of the Bible. I’m not sure where the author of that statement obtained his information. But I find that statement hard to believe. Proverbs is the book of wisdom. It is God’s wisdom given mostly by a man...
by Dewayne Spivey | Jan 30, 2024 | Pulpit Minister
I’m sure I have heard the song before, but it hit me differently this morning. “It’s not what I did, it’s what I didn’t do.” The song is about a man who messed up in his marriage. It wasn’t because of some things he had done – according to him. Instead it was...
by Dewayne Spivey | Jan 9, 2024 | Minister Articles, Pulpit Minister
12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or...
by Dewayne Spivey | Jan 2, 2024 | Pulpit Minister
Happy New Year!! I hope your off to a great start. But if you are not, don’t lose heart. The year is not lost because you have had a bad day or a bad week or even a bad month or months. The Apostle Paul, speaking by the Holy Spirit, tells us the way we should be...
by Dewayne Spivey | Sep 26, 2023 | Pulpit Minister
After being led in this song by two of our young men Sunday night, I was reminded of a quotation from Karl Barth. On April 23, 1962, Karl Barth (the renown 20th Century Swiss-German, neo-orthodox theologian) spoke at Rockefeller Chapel on the campus of the University...