Pastor's Blog (Page 27)

Dear Woodland Hills Family, Back aches, headaches, and heartaches.  Why so many aches in life? The Apostle Paul was no stranger to weakness — he met hardship at every turn: beatings, imprisonments, life-threatening dangers, hunger, cold and exposure… Then there was that intense ache, that groaning in his soul when one of his flock was stumbling. As if these…

    Why weakness?   Most of us struggle with some sort of weakness. One person has recurring headaches. Another’s vision is impaired. Someone else can’t bend over or lift anything without pain. If it’s not allergies it’s asthma or arthritis. Everywhere you turn there’s all manner of disease, defect, or disorder. Why? Some blame…

Dear Woodland Hills Family,   What’re you worth?  $42 if you voted. At the end of October, 1,015,615 television ads had been aired for the presidential general election — up 39.1% over 2008 and 41% over 2004. (No wonder we’re tired of election rhetoric!) The pricetag for all this? Over a billion dollars. And that breaks down to $42 for each voter.…

That pesky Check Engine light has been on again in one of our vehicles. So I stopped by Autozone to have them run a diagnostic test and tell me why the light is on. Turns out the oxygen sensor is the culprit. The O2 sensor has a probe that extends into the exhaust pipe and “sniffs” the burned exhaust. It is designed to alert you if your engine is not tuned…

Have you heard of Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting skydive?  This past Sunday he jumped from  128,100 feet above the earth (over 24 miles!) and parachuted safely back to earth. Jet planes don’t even fly that high — their record is a mere 123,523 feet! Baumgartner had to wear a pressurized suit to protect him from the cold (70 degrees below zero) and to…

Dear Woodland Hills Family, For the last couple of weeks Barb and I have been picking up on some really offensive odors in our home. We’ve been regularly checking our shoes and sniffing our shirts… but still haven’t been able to pinpoint the source. At times it has smelled like we live downwind from a waste-water treatment plant. The other day we finally…