by Mike Crump | Aug 29, 2024 | Christian Life, Featured, Gospel, Parenting, Purpose
I love compartmentalization. Organization and clear parameters in life help to provide clarity for decision making and future plans. Like a well designed closet, each item of clothing or every pair of shoes has its place and to disrupt that is to sow chaos, or at...
by Mike Crump | Jul 2, 2024 | Anxiety, Christian Life, Featured, Gospel, Suffering
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” Ecc. 1:2 The book of Ecclesiates is one of my favorite books of the Bible because of how honest it is about life in this temporal world. In many ways the “Preacher” of Ecclesiastes sounds...
by Mike Crump | May 22, 2024 | Christian Life, Church, Featured
The Christian life can be challenging. Day by day we strive towards Christ-likeness while feeling the weight of our own brokeness. This is why encouragement is so important. Followers of Jesus should be known as expert encouragers, seeking out opportunities to...
by Mike Crump | May 13, 2024 | Christian Life, Featured, Joy, Purpose
This past March I had the privilege of attending the Coram Deo conference with several other pastors from Heritage. While the trip down to North Carolina included the excitement of a minivan breakdown, roadside bbq, and pastor Dave in a tiny truck, the remainder of...
by Mike Crump | May 6, 2024 | Christian Life, Featured, Joy, Mission, Uncategorized
In our digital world, where phones and other devices are always ready to remind us of calendar events, phone numbers, and all the random knowledge we could ever desire, the ability to remember is in short supply. I recall, long ago in my teenage years, being able to...
