Pastor's Blog (Page 17)
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941 a day which will live in infamy. The Empire of Japan “simultaneously and deliberately” extinguished 2,403 American lives. And with that attack the United States was plunged into a war that would cost us 405,399 American soldiers. Nearly half a million casualties. A day of infamy, indeed! So what should we call January 22,…
2021
Highs and lows… gains and losses… hopes and fears… good news and bad… hellos and goodbyes… What a year 2021 has been! Great joy as precious new lives were granted us, but deep sadness as dear ones were parted from us. What a year, indeed. And ready or not, 2022 is upon us! Seems we’ve hardly had time to catch our breath. What will the coming year bring? Uncertainty, for…
Our Savior’s Love
Have you seen these billboards around town? Aren’t you glad this was not our Savior’s mantra? If it were, where would we be? Rather, He humbled Himself… laid aside His divine, heavenly privileges… to take on our flesh and live among us. He was birthed in a place where animals are kept… to a teenage girl whose premarital pregnancy seemed, shall we say, ill-advised and less…
Celebrating Christ’s Arrival
How fitting that we should devote the 9:30 hour this Sunday to honoring our Lord Jesus: hearing again the announcements of His birth, celebrating His arrival, treasuring up with Mary the glorious unfolding of these events, and marveling at God’s amazing plan. I’ll invite you to share with us short sections of Scripture that speak of these things, so be…
Which Currency?
In my message this past Sunday our focus was on Galatians 6:6-10 and the law of sowing and reaping. I recommended Randy Alcorn’s book, The Law of Rewards. May I share an excerpt? Imagine you’re alive at the end of the Civil War. You’re living in the South, but you are a Northerner. You plan to move home as soon as the war is over. While in the South you’ve accumulated…
The Freedom of Believers
These days our American culture seems to be all about freedom! So much so that at every sporting event someone leads us all in a hats-off, heart-felt “invocation” that the Star-Spangled Banner might e’er wave o’er this land of the free. But I think we have become intoxicated with the notion of freedom. Freedom of speech, for example, has become such an inalienable right…