by Jerry Owen | Jul 19, 2025 | Church Updates
A note to the congregation prior to our annual church camp: Pastors from CREC churches in the Pacific Northwest had a great meeting this week. Uri Brito from Providence Church in Pensacola, our Presiding Minister of the CREC, was out doing a camp for Trinity Church...
by Jerry Owen | Jul 12, 2025 | News & Culture
I’ve had numerous conversations recently about how Christians ought to think about Israel and evangelical support for it. You may have seen Ted Cruz’s interview with Tucker Carlson who stated that he learned in Sunday school that Christians ought to support Israel...
by Jerry Owen | Jun 21, 2025 | Proverbs
My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird; But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for...
by Jerry Owen | Jun 15, 2025 | Proverbs
My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. 11 If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them alive like [a]Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; 13 We shall...
by Jerry Owen | May 3, 2024 | Proverbs
My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck. Proverbs 1:8-9 Solomon began by saying proverbs give prudence to the simple and wise counsel to a man...
by Jerry Owen | Aug 25, 2023 | Proverbs
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding, To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity; To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and...
