Thank you for visiting AMeasureOfGrace.org. My name is R. L. Cheek. Permit me to share a little bit about myself. My wife and I were High School sweethearts. We met in 1986 and married in 1987. We were born again in 1989. We have three children which are all grown with families of their own, and we have three grandchildren. This website is my personal online teaching ministry. We are independent, fundamental, bible-believing Baptists. My wife and I spent twelve years in full-time Christian service in Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. During that time, I worked as a Christian school teacher, assistant pastor, Bible institute evangelist, and pastor of three churches, two of which we started. My faithful and precious wife also worked along side me in the ministry in very many roles, including Sunday School teacher, cafeteria worker and cleaning at the church and the Christian school, and of course as a pastor’s wife. This was in addition to home-schooling our three children. What a wonderful woman she is! We have been best friends for almost 40 years now.
Being completely candid, full-time ministry was not easy. I believe there is a special measure of grace that God must give to a man in order for him to be an effective and successful pastor. I finally realized after twelve years and three attempts at being a pastor of small churches that I was not one of them. That was a painful realization.
When our last church folded, my wife and I were hurt deeply. We decided the time had come to step away from full-time service. However, we never left our love for God, His Word, nor our desire to live a separated life for Him. My wife continued her dedicated life of doing what God has called her to do: to be a wife, mother, homemaker, and now grandmother – things she excels at! As for me, I picked up something I had excelled at prior to entering the ministry, my former career as a software engineer. That is what I still do today and I truly enjoy my work.
Ephesians 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Over the years since our time in the ministry, my sermons, studies, and books have remained on the library shelves. Still wanting to exercise my lowly gifts for God, I thought that I would eventually write software that could be used by Christians to help them learn the Word of God and how to live a life that pleases the Lord. However, that thought never seemed to materialize. Then one day, I looked at those shelves in our library and wondered if I could somehow resurrect my love for teaching God’s Word outside of being a pastor. I had thought if I was not a pastor, then who was I to teach? It was then that I read Ephesians 4:7. I may not be pastor “material” but God had given me a measure of grace in my love for His Word and my love for teaching it. I also realized I had buried my “talent” that God had given me.
Matthew 25:20-27 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
I may not be that man with 5 talents in Matthew 25:20, but I no longer wanted to be that man who buried his talent in Matthew 25:24! I felt the time was long past that I should dig that talent up and do something with it. That is the reason I started this website. I want the Lord to use me still. I want to be able to have a positive impact on fellow Christians who are wanting to live separated and dedicated lives for Jesus Christ.
If you are a Christian who wants to study the Bible from the perspective that it is God’s Holy Word and the final authority, or even if you want to know what that means, I truly hope you find something on these pages that encourages you to take the next step in your walk with the Lord. If you are a pastor, missionary, evangelist, or teacher of the Word of God, I hope you will consider using these materials in your ministry. You have my permission to use the content on this site in any not-for-profit way in your ministry as long as you do not reproduce for sale these materials or re-post them on another website.
By His Grace,
Brother Cheek
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