Author: Pastor Brad Boyer

        My heart is in anguish within me;        the terrors of death have fallen upon me.              5       Fear and trembling come upon me,        and horror overwhelms me.              6       And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!        I would fly away and be at rest;              7   […]

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. 7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?” 8 They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph […]

But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem […]

Acts 16:6-7 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.  We often hear people say or […]

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”  We have seen athletes point to the heavens when they make a great play and actors credit God […]

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to […]

The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house. 3 As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile’s […]

After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.  The writer Ernest Hemingway was famous for trimming the fat with spare language, telling it like it was. Other writers would have […]

            How long, O Lord, will you look on?        Rescue me from their destruction,        my precious life from the lions!              18       I will thank you in the great congregation;        in the mighty throng I will praise you. Hopefully you do not remember your first steps as our granddaughter Harriet is now walking. You […]

10 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. Paul wrote 29 chapters in 2 letters to this troubled church and wrote at least […]