We are going to leave our study in the book of Acts this week to look at this psalm. This is a psalm of ascents, which means it was likely sung by Israelites as they neared Jerusalem on their way up to worship the Lord at an annual feast, such as Passover.

Wirt Adams Yerger, Jr., the father of the modern Mississippi Republican Party, a man who chose principle over power and pragmatism, died last week leaving a big void but not without a lasting legacy. He was 92. 

Last week, sources leaked to The New York Times that, in Ukraine’s targeting and killing of Russian generals and the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship, the Moskva, U.S. intelligence played an indispensable role.

The United States is in the grips of a fentanyl crisis that doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. 

Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew 11:20-25.  In this final section of Matthew chapter 11, we find in these words one of the clearest expressions of God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility, side by side, f

Paul is on his 3rd missionary journey in this passage. He has spent nearly three years in Ephesus, but now his ministry there is drawing to a close. So he calls the disciples together, encourages them, says farewell, and departs for Macedonia (Acts 20:1).

“Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.”

Politics would be a lot simpler if one side could prevent the other from running for office. 

Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew 11:7-9. We learned last week that if John the Baptist can suffer from spiritual discouragement and wrestle with serious doubts, then so can any believer. B

In this passage Paul’s ministry in Ephesus is drawing to a close. While he was making his future plans, “there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way” (Acts 19:21-23).

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” 

Just like that, tyranny has descended on Florida.

Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew 11:1-6.  In this passage, Jesus is going to show us several events which will establish the claims of the Lord Jesus as Messiah. 

Lord willing, we will return to the study in Acts next week, but this week I want to look at the story of the resurrected Jesus appearing to two of his followers (Luke 24).

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”

On Ukraine, the neo-isolationists of the right are fighting the last war.

In these verses our Lord Jesus is on the cross. He has been tried by men in various courts: the chief priests of the Jews, King Herod, and the Roman governor of the province, Pilate.

Madison Central High School is the best public high school in the state of Mississippi. Need proof? Here of some of our recent accomplishments: in the 2021 calendar year, we had two All-Americans, two Academic All-Americans,

Speaking of the seven-week war in Ukraine ignited by Vladimir Putin, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is warning us to expect a war that lasts for years.

Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew 10:5-15.  In this text, Christ gives explicit instructions to His disciples about this specific mission on which He is about to send them.