Our First Family Nights resumed Wednesday night – something to look forward to throughout the school year. Come join us this fall: Session I: August 23-October 11 Session II: November 1-November 8 Thanksgiving Dinner: November 15 Dinner: 6:00-6:30 Classes: 6:30-7:30 Adults Study of 1 Timothy Teacher: Charlie Wingard Youth (grades 7-12) Old Testament Survey Teacher: Scott Edburg Children (5K – grade 6) Book of Acts Teacher: Lynne Wingard
Read MoreThe Rev. Charles Thomas is among the finest Christian educators I know. Today Bob Bailey and I enjoyed visiting with the Thomas Christian Academy staff as they prepare for the new school year in September.
Read MoreOn Christ’s Gethsemane prayer: “Though we may pray to God to prevent and remove an affliction, yet our chief errand and that which we should most insist upon, must be, that he will give us grace to bear it well. It should be more our care to get our troubles sanctified, and our hearts satisfied under them, than to get them taken way. [Jesus] prayed, saying, Thy will be done.” – Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:36-46
Read MorePhillip Holmes, Associate Advisor and Creative Director at Rivertree Financial Planning, will be on campus this fall to lead three personal finance and productivity workshops for RTS Jackson students and their spouses. I asked Phillip to describe his workshops: Workshop One (Tuesday, September 5, 7:00-8:30 p.m.): The inability to be efficient and productive bleeds into every aspect of your life — including finances. The chaos is affecting your cash flow. Efficient people thrive at home, at work, in the classroom, in their relationships, and in their finances. Efficiency and productiveness can lead to increased incomes and happier lives. This workshop will equip you with seven baby steps you can take to become more efficient and productive. If you are willing to be…
Read MoreDo you want a more effective ministry to your community? Then read your local newspaper. I subscribe to four newspapers: The Yazoo Herald, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson), The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. By far the most important is the The Yazoo Herald. Here’s why: My church worships and serves in a community. Like all churches, my congregation represents only a slice of the community’s population. If my only interest is the people in my congregation, I lose sight of my neighbors, and that hardly squares with the admonition to love my neighbor. The local paper brings me back to the people and institutions that shape my city. What do I look for in the paper? Government officials. I have a responsibility to pray for them…
Read More“Wherever Christ is welcome, he expects that his disciples should be welcome too. When we take God for our God, we take his people for our people.” – Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:18
Read MoreWherever The Spirit of Christ Is
Wherever the Spirit of Christ is, He . . . Reveals Christ to the understanding, Enthrones Christ in the affections, Gives Christ the control of the will, Endears Christ to the heart, Glorifies Christ in the soul, and Conforms the person to the lovely likeness of Christ. – James Smith (1802-1862) In Mark Jones, Knowing Christ (Banner of Truth, 2015), 61.
Read MoreFor the next nine weeks, Lynne teaches again one of her favorite books, The Iliad, this time at Manchester Academy. I enjoy the new purchases that crop up around our home. I owe my love of The Iliad to one man, Dr. John Reishman, one of the outstanding literature professors at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Until his class, I don’t recall reading a work of ancient Greek literature, and, had I made the attempt, the ability to navigate the text would have been sorely lacking. I needed a teacher, and found one in Dr. Reishman. Since then, I have read The Iliad several times in the translations of Fitzgerald, Lattimore, and Fagles, and a very small portion…
Read More“Retirement” is not in my Uncle John’s vocabulary. At age 90, he is the visiting pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Ripley, TN and is in Chapter 5 of his Romans series. You can listen to him twice a week on the local radio station. I am thankful for his testimony and example. Ordained in 1951, Uncle John joined the PCA in 1974. What a joy to catch up with him last weekend at the wedding of Megan Joy Wingard and Timothy Stern!
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