Archive for ‘Ben Purves’
Psalm 119:1-8 (Sunday, December 30, 2012)
Ben Purves
Merry Christmas!
We encourage you to read this Christmas letter from Pastor Kyle and Pastor Ben as we look back on what God has done at Occoquan Bible Church over this last year. Also, come worship with …
Read MoreYour Family and Lent
by Ben Purves (February 24, 2012)
Do you and your family do anything for Lent? Many evangelical Christians ignore the season of Lent because of its connection to Catholicism and associations with rigid legalism. For many, the concept of Lent is tarnished because of those who …
Read MoreFrom Thanksgiving to Advent
by Ben Purves (December 1, 2011)
This year’s Thanksgiving celebrations prompted my wife Ricki and I to take another look at the holiday’s historical origins. I pulled my old volume “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford off the shelf and thumbed through it, reminded of the …
Read MoreThe End of the World… Again?
by Ben Purves (October 14, 2011)
Harold Camping is once again predicting that the world will end, this time one week from today, on October 21st. We encourage you to read the response Pastor Ben wrote to Camping’s failed prediction this last …
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