Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, gives us a daily reflection and devotion. A favorite verse of many is 1 Peter 5:10, which reads, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” The very idea of tossing our anxiety over to God and relaxing in our spirits is...
Elder, David “Doc” Kensers, provides us a daily devotion and reflection. Historically, one of the big dividing lines in the church has been whether we are saved by works or by faith. And the answer is “Wrong!” Wait, what? “Wrong?” Right! We are wrong to think that we are...
Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, shares a daily devotion and reflection. The writer of the Book of Hebrews speaks of the New Covenant God has made with mankind, a covenant written not on stone like the 10 Commandments, but one written upon the hearts and minds of God’s people. This...
Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, shares a daily devotion and reflection. I don’t remember any of the specifics of the conversation other than it was on some kind of media and an individual claiming to be a Christian was defending his giving in to temptation instead of taking the higher...
Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, shares with us a daily devotion and reflection. Perhaps you’ve heard of the recent trend in schools to forego teaching children to write in cursive. Conventional wisdom suggests that cursive is going the way of the buggy whip, simply not something people of the Digital...
Discipline is part of the Christian life. Cultivating a maturity in following Jesus takes months, years, — better yet, it takes your whole life. Like the discipline of working out, we need equipment if we’re going to see the fruit of our labor. In the third message of our Sermon...
Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, gives us a daily reflection and devotion. You are, no doubt, somewhat familiar with the prosperity gospel that is expounded on by tele-vangelists. They offer a discipleship that is marked by health and wealth as God intends for us to be happy and whole. And,...
Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, gives us a daily reflection and devotion. Can you imagine being thankful for the worst thing that ever happened to you? Seriously, could you take what has been a terrible loss and muster up a thankful spirit for having had the experience? Doesn’t even seem...
Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, gives us a daily reflection and devotion. Close relatives of mine, years ago, adopted two small children from India where they lived in the extreme poverty of a lower caste and suffered the harsh parenting of a father, who was so twisted in spirit that...
Elder, David “Doc” Kenser, gives us a daily devotion and reflection. In game and economic theory, a zero-sum is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant’s gain or loss is balanced by the gain or loss of the other participants. In other words, regardless of what...