Dear Liberty Church, As we come near to the end of the Gospel of Luke during our Sunday morning worship, we also come to the first Sunday of the month of August, and in case some of us have forgotten, this is when we traditionally have had the Lord’s Supper. Due to COVID, we have…

Dear Liberty Church, Recently, many speakers, organizations, and publications have been calling for more “positive thinking” during this time of COVID and civil unrest. This notion of ‘positivity’ will probably only increase (especially since there is an exorbitant amount of negativity in the news and media), and there is nothing wrong with that, per se,…

Dear Liberty Church, As we continue in our study of Luke (one that has lasted nearly 20 months!), we arrive this upcoming Sunday to a very important passage. All of the person and work of Jesus Christ is crucial in God’s redemptive plan – His incarnation, His active obedience (fulfillment of the Law), His sinless…

Dear Liberty Church, As we prepare to reopen our doors for Sunday worship, for the first time in three months, I want to ask that together we pray a specific type of prayer: a prayer of protection. This is certainly an apt prayer for our times. There are many in our country and in our…

Dear Liberty Church, It is exciting to announce that we are moving forward with in-person Sunday morning worship services starting (hopefully) June 7th at 10:45am. This is long-awaited, and though there are still serious concerns regarding COVID-19 in our area, we must balance this with another serious concern, which is the spiritual health of our…

Dear Liberty Church, Last week in my update to you all, I wrote that we would likely experience some whiplash from the back and forth concerning reopening; boy, did that come true this week! In what seemed like a sudden move, Maryland began to reopen much of the state this past Friday, including churches. The…

Dear Liberty Church, During the next few weeks, I imagine that there will be a whiplash effect on many of us. We may read encouraging reports of COVID-19 and this quarantine, that numbers are plateauing, that businesses can reopen, that vaccines are imminent, and then the very next day, we may read of possible spikes,…

Dear Liberty Church, As I was reading in my devotional the other day, I came across a familiar passage found in John 5 in which Jesus was teaching the Jews about His authority. Any legal claim in ancient Israel had to be confirmed by two or three witnesses, and thus Jesus lists off the witnesses…

Dear Liberty Church, As you are all aware, this is certainly a challenging time. In particular, we are realizing how isolation can be quite a soul-shrinking predicament. Rather than promoting being alone for extended periods of time, the Bible conveys the strongest commitment to community; the entirety of Psalm 133 is about this theme. “How…

Dear Liberty Church, Happy Easter Weekend! Around the world, churches are celebrating Holy Week in a quite unusual manner, and in a way that they never have before. These unprecedented times, however, do not change the importance of what this week symbolizes. Arguably the greatest weekend in the history of the world, not one, but…