From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:7The word repentance is one of those unpopular words today. Charles Spurgeon aptly noted that “r...  Read More

As a Pastor, it is one of my great desires to not only equip the Church to engage their Bibles meaningfully, but to deepen each member in my church’s resolve to excel in their own personal Bible readi...  Read More

A Brief Sketch of the Life of AthanasiusAthanasius, in his life, was one of the men God used most effectively to combat a heresy now known as Arianism. In its day, Arianism was actually considered the...  Read More

A film is coming out this weekend (trailer below) on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who is surprisingly one of the primary reasons I am a pastor.Back in 2012, I was working full time in corpor...  Read More

Four months after the devastating Battle of Gettysburg during America’s Civil War, Abraham Lincoln strolled through the battle ground. Before that point in time, he was not a Christian. In fact as a y...  Read More

Last week I published an episode of my podcast discussing the dangers of godless conservatism. While I do not intend this post to be a commentary on politics, the background is helpful. The general se...  Read More

In this episode Pastor Raef looks at a trend occurring in American politics, that of godless conservatism. We consider the roots of political conservatism and how it has historically been rooted in Go...  Read More

As I prepare to preach a sermon this Sunday on the Lord’s prayer from Luke 11:1-4 (of which an extended version of the prayer is also found in Matthew 6:9-13), I cannot help but prayerfully consider h...  Read More

This week I have spent some additional time reflecting on the words of Psalm 61. In the opening few verses of that wonderful psalm, David prays the following words.“Lead me to the rock that is higher ...  Read More

In this episode Pastor Raef sits down with Aaron Renn, author of Life in the Negative World, and co-founder of https://americanreformer.org/. We got a chance to discuss his new book which considers wh...  Read More

In the late 1960’s, a group of twelve women, led by Kate Millet, sat around a table in New York City. Millet, known by many as the Female Marx, and a woman who would play a vital cog in the historic w...  Read More

In this episode Pastor Raef shares a message he prepared recently on Psalm 34:8 "Oh taste and see that the Lord is good."......  Read More