Grant Van Leuven's Posts

Grant Van Leuven's Posts

Psalm 46:10: Be Still Knowing God

Grant Van Leuven
Sep 29, 2020
Recently I had been thinking about how to minister to several members of our congregation because of what God is calling them to go through again which will surely tax their energy and emotions. I had also been pondering what we are all going through in the present state of pandemic uncertainty. So...

Psalm 56:3: When You’re Afraid Trust in God

Grant Van Leuven
Sep 9, 2020
About one year ago while lying in bed I whispered to God in desperation: “ I am so afraid.” It was the most heightened sense of dread I had ever experienced (and I and my household had already made it through some pretty horrific times over the last half decade). Then the voices of children from a...

Redeem Your Time At This Time

Grant Van Leuven
May 6, 2020
During this uncertain coronavirus pandemic confining most of us to our homes, I hear of people complaining about being bored with all the extra time on their hands. But how often have they previously complained, “I just don’t have the time!” Well now you do. How will you make good use of it?...

Submit to the Government Serving God to Save Lives

Grant Van Leuven
Apr 18, 2020
A few weeks ago, due to the present coronavirus pandemic, our Session decided to postpone face-to-face assemblies of worship at the church building electing (for a time) to serve Christ and our covenanted saints through online Lord’s Day webcasts. [1] This decision was not unanimous but we moved...

No Foolin'

Grant Van Leuven
Apr 1, 2020
Every year a late night talk show host encourages parents to prank their kids with a faux profession that they devoured all their little pumpkins’ Halloween candy. [1] The show features videos sent in of children throwing monstrous fits of rage and heartache until the parents reveal they are “just...

Begin Your Day With Thanksgiving

Grant Van Leuven
Nov 28, 2019
I’m not a morning person: I struggle to sit up, let alone stand up—and to think, let alone thank. My wife is similar. She jokes that she was known in college (due to long days and nights studying) to grumble back at “Good morning!” with, “Good morning for you , not for me !” I too often roll out of...

The Ten Commandments: The Fourth

Grant Van Leuven
Nov 25, 2019
When I see the Ten Commandments summarized artistically and framed for purchase to hang on the walls of a Christian home, I often wonder if the Fourth Commandment, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy (Exodus 20:8), ought not to be chiseled out. Christians will for the most part acknowledge...

If I Could Preach Only One Sermon: Love God

Grant Van Leuven
Jul 15, 2019
Contemplating the question, “If you could preach only one sermon, what would it be?” the thought that keeps returning is, “Love God.” Perhaps this focus of proclamation comes to mind because our church’s men’s study is going through Jonathan Edwards’ Charity and Its Fruits based on 1 Corinthians 13...

This is Your Time (God Has a Plan and Purpose to Every Season of Your Life Under Heaven)

Grant Van Leuven
May 4, 2019
What season did we recently enter? Spring. What comes next? Summer. Then what? Fall. Then what? Winter. And then? Spring. And so on until Christ’s Second Coming. The year’s seasons are cyclical—and somewhat predictable. So the seasons of our years should not surprise us but rather inspire our...

The Apostles’ Creed: The Forgiveness of Sins is Fundamental

Grant Van Leuven
Mar 28, 2019
During the ancient Apostles’ Creed’s [1] development over time into one of the Church’s first sanctioned statements of faith some of its phrases were inserted along the way into the completion of its final form; yet the belief of “the forgiveness of sins” was an initial part of this earliest...