9:01 AM Speaking of Erwin Lutzer, his message, Bypassed Opportunities, is the sermon of the day. 8:55 AM Erwin Lutzer says that the quote attributed to him by the Chicago Tribune (see yesterday’s weblog for details) was correct but incomplete. The rest of his statement goes like this: “We should pray that win or lose the …
4:39 PM 2700 conservative Episcopalians meeting in Dallas this week called on their national church leaders to repent of their growing acceptance of homosexuality. God bless those Bible-believing Episcopalians who are standing for the truth. 4:29 PM The Wall Street Journal thinks it’s time to say something nice about hell. …
8:26 PM Marlene’s Mom arrived from Phoenix yesterday. This AM she went with Marlene to visit Oak Park Christian Academy. Tonight they went to the Lake Theater to see Secondhand Lions. Meanwhile, I went to Target to get a new screen for my electric razor. While I was checking out, I heard a voice say, “Hi, Pastor Ray.” I…
6:26 PM Here’s a note from a friend who manages to blend theology and the Chicago Cubs:I’d just like to compliment you on your sermon from Sunday (I just finished reading it). Knowing that God chose me “before the foundations of the earth” is well, it more than makes up for the Cubs losing last night. Just FYI, on Octob…
11:06 PM Earlier this year Josh got into digital photography in a big way. Bought two cameras and some professional-qualitylenses. Has taken some really nice shots. Now he has his own website. 11:05 PM Cubs couldn’t quite pull it off. We’ll get ’em tomorrow. 10:31 PM Got back from an elder board meeting about 20 minutes ago…
4:42 PM A note from Butch Henderson in Birmingham, AL: Ok….Cubs win !!! since I can’t pull for the Braves………..Cubbies….Cubbies….Cubbies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It’s good to know that an old friend has “seen the light.” 4:35 PM On Sunday, October 19, Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver r…
5:17 PM Jane Jacob told me we received quite a few more Legacy Campaign commitments. We’ll have an updated report sometime tomorrow … By the way, John Sredl managed to “jury-rig” the boilers so we had heat in the west wing. Of course, it was warm enough today so that the sanctuary became stuffy in the later servi…
DISCERNMENT: MAKING WISE CHOICES UNDER PRESSURE by Ray Pritchard “So that you may be able to discern what is best” (Philippians 1:10a). This is a prayer for spiritual discrimination. In our day discrimination has a mostly negative tone, but in the spiritual realm we desperately need to discriminate between good an…
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 20034:12 PM Heating update: John Sredl informs me that the boiler is working and we have heat in the east wing and the sanctuary. However, the west wing is still without heat and will be without heat tomorrow, due to a cord that was cut during the renovation. We’ll get it fixed next week but the west wing will be slightly cool …
10:28 PM Cubs win 3-1 over the Atlanta Braves! 5:03 PM George Theis from Word of Life sent me the following story: On the outskirts of a small town in Georgia, there was a big, old pecan treejust inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began divi…