This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 27:13 'I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah.' A Methodist theologian, preacher, and commentator, has left on record his thoughts upon this verse of David, the thirteenth of his twenty-seventh psalm, when he wrote, very interestingly: '"I had fainted."The words in italics are supplied by our translators; ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 23 'Jehovah is my Shepherd, I shall not want.' It may well be the case that the 23rdPsalm is the best-known 'passage,' or 'chapter,' in the Bible. It is extremely likely that, even the historical usage of this psalm over many years, as a 'comfort' or 'eulogistic' portion of Scripture by families and funeral directors with, probably, as ...

This week's Focus Passage: Genesis 49:10 'The sceptre shall not depart from Judah.....until Shiloh come. Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Acts 6:1-6 'But we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.' These words uttered by Peter on the occasion of a discrimination scandal regarding the care of the widows in the recently formed Jerusalem church right after Pentecost, were his response, his answer to this apparent dilemma. It strikes us that it corres...

To the congregation - We are looking forward to resuming in-person worship this Lord's Day, January 10th. We are planning on celebrating the Lord's Supper but will further postpone the Fellowship Luncheon until at least February. The elders are closely monitoring the current situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic and the conditions in the Upstate, including in Upsta...

This Week's Focus Passage: Acts 2:39 'For to you is the promise, and to your children.' How does this statement provide support for the idea, at least in the New Testament economy, of the children of believers being considered thereby to be, 'covenant children,' or, 'children of the covenant?' Or, how is it related to the argument of the paedo-baptist, that is, that...