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29/05/2026

Christian friends, count the cost as you follow Christ. Many will not want to go with you.

When that happens, draw near to the One who was despised and rejected Himself as He went alone to Calvary to redeem you for His own.

The horizontal disappointment of rejection can yield to a vertical fellowship in His sufferings.

Better to be alone with Christ than with 10,000 family and friends who want Him not.

"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it."
(Matthew 10:37-39)

"In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;
but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead."
(1 Peter 4:4-5)

It’s all part of the way of the cross.

Don’t shrink back.

Embrace it for the sake of Christ.

~Pastor Don

27/05/2026

My suffering Christian friend, persevering through discouragement that seems to have no end in sight:

Circumstances may cloud your sense, but take heart in the truth which governs the ultimate outcome.

Your gracious Lord has not abandoned you, will not abandon you, and could never abandon you. One day you will see His faithfulness on display, and it will be well worth the wait.

He who truly believes in Christ will never be disappointed when all is said and done. The atoning cross establishes His faithful love beyond all doubt and dispute. His promise is sure. Your faith is not in vain.

Until then, time, in the hands of your loving Father, will be your friend.

It could be no other way for those in Christ.

“Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word” (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17).

~Pastor Don

25/05/2026

Dear Christian friends, the world certainly is disorderly and uncertain from our perspective these days.

Just remember that it is not so with our God.

He orders all things and directs all creatures and events to accomplish His preordained purposes.

He cannot fail. He will prevail.

Have faith in Christ.

The One who stilled the seas still rules the waves. He will do good in the end.

At the end of the day, we either believe this and live by it or we don’t:

“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).

“You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).

~Pastor Don

22/05/2026

For those Christians with a heavy sigh tonight:

One of the keys to life and ministry, in my judgment, is to take the long view of the Lord’s work.

It’s inevitable that a few bugs will hit the windshield of our lives.

Time and gravity take their toll on the outer man while adversity, temptation, and sorrow weigh on the inner man.

It's so easy to sink under the load, isn't it?

But it need not be so.

Did not Christ make an atoning sacrifice in love for your soul? Is it not in Him that we live and move and have our being?

There's so much more to the grind than what you see in the moment.

Our heavenly Father is using even the sighs to conform us to the image of Christ and prepare us for a weight of glory far beyond all comparison.

I lose sight of that sometimes. So do you.

But we mustn’t.

We must look by faith to our Christ who is at work in it all. The momentary trials could not possibly be the end game at work.

“He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32).

Is it not true that we find rose petals of common grace along the way even when the path is rocky?

But more surpassingly, is it not true that this world is not our home? Are we not looking for a place of rest beyond the grave, beyond the skies, that will be our home with Him who loved us and gave Himself up for us?

Remember these things, beloved, and after the heavy sigh, take the long view and breathe a word of praise and gratitude to your gracious King who reigns over it all.

For all of us in Christ, it comes out well in the end.

“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself” (Philippians 3:20-21).

~Pastor Don

20/05/2026

As a pastor, I have the mixed privilege of watching godly Christians in our church endure prolonged and very difficult trials of very different sorts.

I called it a “mixed” privilege because I love their godly faithfulness and perseverance; but I grieve over the anguish it causes them in the present.

It’s the lot of many Christians in many places, isn’t it?

Why does it have to be so long?

And why does it have to be so *hard*?

The answer to that question is not academic to me. It calls to mind my own seven-year, Death Valley experience early in my Christian life. How often I want to give up!

To writhe under extended trials beyond human solution, waiting for God’s deliverance and not getting it, is a sore trial indeed. Where is this great faithfulness of which we sing?

An earnest cry of a Christian heart deserves an earnest answer. Cheap cliches won’t do.

Allow me to generalize for the sake of brevity and clarity, please. What I say is said in a spirit of deep sympathy, not cold indifference and certainly not rebuke.

I speak beyond the walls of TCC to whatever Christian this may reach.

Ultimately our Christian trials are designed to sanctify us. “He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness” (Hebrews 12:10).

They are not random difficulties. They are divine appointments with divine purpose.

Prolonged trials sanctify us by stripping us of our pride, self-sufficiency, and attachment to this world.

It humbles us to face trials that we cannot control.

Trials press home our helplessness.

Prolonged trials rob this world of its earlier appeal and make it seem much less like home.

We don’t realize how deeply those fleshly remnants of pride, self-sufficiency, and worldly attachment grip us.

But the Lord does.

And He measures the depth of the pain and the length of the trial to us in perfect proportion to what is necessary to break their prevailing power in our hearts.

In other words, He’s not being vindictive, unkind, or unfaithful. He hasn’t forgotten you. He is the perfect Physician of our souls. He knows the disease. He knows the cure. He applies it with unfailing accuracy.

Comfort delayed is not comfort denied. It just awaits the proper timing when the sanctifying work has been accomplished.

Beloved, of course it seems like too much right now.

Of course it seems too difficult.

If there were no pain, there would be no gain.

The more severe it seems, the more longer-term good He is accomplishing in your soul.

“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” (Hebrews 12:11).

The hands that bore the nails have not turned against you.

They’re now the hands of the potter, shaping your weak clay into a vessel fit for His future service, with a greater capacity for knowing Christ and ministering effectively to His saints in the future, and ultimately better equipped for eternal fellowship with Him where transgression, trials, and tears shall be no more.

Yes, your days are long and sore, my brother or sister in Christ.

Did I say days? I meant months, nay, for some, even years. They are long. They are sore.

But there’s something better below the surface.

They are noble. They have eternal value.

Your persevering, barely-surviving struggle in the night is not in vain.

The Lord has appointed precisely this to accomplish precisely that.

Patience, then, dear one, even under your heavy and pressing load.

Trust the One who bore your sin at Calvary to bear your soul safely home.

“The LORD knows the way of the righteous” (Psalm 1:6).

~Pastor Don

18/05/2026

Years ago in another place there was an anxious, hurting woman in the sphere of my ministry. She was somewhat awkward in conversations, rejected and abused by much of her family, confused, and she had a reverse Midas touch.

Everything she touched seemed to turn to ashes instead of gold.

She epitomized the opposite of the successful, beautiful career woman that our society and frankly, most of Christianity, adores.

She had little to offer to anyone except her problems and sad stories.

And yet, beneath her surface was a heart that loved Christ and His Word. Those that took the time to listen found a woman with a heart to please Christ and obey His Word. Those with eyes to see witnessed her tenacious faith in Christ when there was precious little in her circumstances to reinforce it.

One reason why I love Christ is that He is not like the world or much of the church. He does not despise those who suffer and struggle. He is a compassionate friend--a refuge to those in trouble, a champion to those without hope.

He speaks on behalf of sinful women who fall at his feet and wash His feet with their tears. He forgives sinners who come to Him. He looks not for the noble and beautiful by our standards, but those who are contrite in spirit and who tremble at His Word.

He hears the cries of those who trust in Him. He shows compassion to those whom the world rejects. He receives the trusting Lazarus whose sores were licked by dogs but sends away the rich man who refuses to listen.

He is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble.

If you're rejected by the world, take heart. One ear will hear your prayer. Our great Christ will receive you and love you.

Your very desperation becomes the point of contact with His amazing grace.

And ONE DAY--one day certain--every knee will bow and confess that this Jesus is Lord.

He is and will forever be preeminently worthy of that praise.

~Pastor Don

15/05/2026

Whether it's the future of Christ's church, national politics, or personal challenges, ultimately we who are in Christ have an anchor:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).

"I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5).

Understanding Christ's sovereign, loyal love for His own changes the way you think and live.

Don't let anyone use a cheap political or self-centered substitute to hijack that message from its rightful central role in your thinking, worship, and worldview.

I mean it. :)

Now go have a joyful and productive day in Christ.

~Pastor Don

13/05/2026

If you're tempted to question the love of God because of adversity or sorrow that's breaking your heart, I invite you to come to the cross of Calvary.

Remember the Son of God, hanging on a cross to redeem you from your sins two thousand years before you were born.

That cross answers the question, "Is God a God of love?"

Yes.

Yes, He is. In love He laid down His sinless life for your sinful soul, the just for the unjust, in order to reconcile you to a holy God.

Is God a God of love?

The cross answers that question permanently and decisively for all time--no matter what else happens in our lives as we walk in this fallen world.

"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10).

~Pastor Don

11/05/2026

Christian, is your heart heavy? The great Charles Spurgeon would understand. In his exposition of Psalm 88, he said:

"He who now feebly expounds these words knows within himself more than he would care or dare to tell of the abysses of inward anguish. It is an unspeakable consolation that our Lord Jesus knows this experience, having, with the exception of the sin of it, felt it all in Gethsemane when he was exceeding sorrowful even unto death" (_Treasury of David_, 4:132).

Spurgeon knew he had a sympathetic Savior who had groaned in His humanity.

"For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (Hebrews 4:15-16).

Go straight to Christ, as you are, in your sorrow. He will receive you in sympathy and provide help that no man can give.

~Pastor Don

08/05/2026

My sometimes-impatient Christian friend, may I give you a word of encouragement as life seems to have you on hold?

Scripture teaches us that the Lord does His work in His people over time, not in a day.

Abraham waited fourteen years from the birth of Ishmael to the birth of Isaac.

Moses spent forty years in obscurity; Paul at least fourteen. Even our sinless Lord didn’t start His public ministry until He was about 30.

The biblical examples are easily multiplied.

God does not work by the timetables of men.

We’ve been sold a false bill of goods by those who condition us to expect immediate answers to our prayers, and then blame the inevitable wait on our lack of faith.

A pox on all of them. They’ve damaged so many.

Rather than learning patient trust, we become anxious or rely on the arm of our flesh as days turn into weeks, weeks into months, months into years.

It doesn’t have to be that way for you.

Dear friend, don’t measure the Lord’s faithfulness by watching the clock.

Measure it by His Word and leave the timing of His grace to His wisdom.

The delay will humble you, expose your inner corruptions, and make you far more willing to give God the glory when He finally puts His goodness on display to you.

And if you don’t see fulfillment in this life?

No worries. You’ll see it in heaven.

Walk by faith, not by sight. His presence with you today and His grace for today is enough.

Time and His faithfulness go hand-in-hand.

Simply trust Christ, and all will be well.

“Wait for the LORD; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the LORD” (Psalm 27:14).

~Pastor Don

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