Christ Exalting, Gospel Equipping

Greetings beloved family of Common Ground, It has been a while since I’ve last written to my beloved church family and thus, I felt it was needed and necessary to encourage all of you in your love and devotion to our Trinitarian God.  Our strange times that we presently live in continue to lure the church into lazy stupor.  We must as a people of God stay diligent, stay connected, stay in love with Jesus.  Barna Research has recently come…

Greetings beloved family of Common Ground, I‘ve been thinking much about the sin of racism.  It seems as if everyone presently is writing, posting, opinionizing, taking a stand and declaring their ideas and views on the ugly sin of racism and what needs to be done about it and what is the presumed cure for such a heinous crime.  And what I find interesting are those who are supposedly against racism spew forth some of the same hatred, bigotry, prejudice,…

Greetings beloved family of Common Ground, Lord God you know the condition of a person’s heart.  You see us and know us exactly as we are, as we are all laid bare before your precise and righteous judgment.  You know the evil that lurks within the hearts of all people, for there is no one righteous, no not one, no one understands, no one seeks for God, all have turned aside, together they have become worthless, no one does good,…