Pastor's Blog (Page 34)

Preparation. A. W. Tozer says preparation is the key to battlefield success because “battles are always won before the armies take the field.” “The critical moment for any army is not the day it engages the foe in actual combat; it is the day before or the month before or the year before…. “Preparation is vital. The rule is, prepare or fail.…

I’ve heard several comments like this one over the last couple of days: “The Lord really challenged me at George’s funeral. His life made me ask whether I’m living my life as wholeheartedly for God as he did.” Funerals have a way of making us ask end-result questions. When I’m done with my race, what will the outcome be? Will I like…

Six days till elections.  And if you’re like me, that’s none too soon!  Not because I can’t wait to vote, but because I am sooo ready for the rhetoric to tone down.  I mean, really!  Telling this person to shove it and that person where to ride in the bus…. (And those are the nicer ones!) They say negative advertising and attacking the person wins…

Dear Woodland Hills Family, Since so many of us LOOK like this a lot of the time… ..and since we FEEL like this a lot of the time… …I invite you to join me this Sunday as we take up part two of our Journey Toward Refreshment and Renewal. Part two necessarily builds on part one, so if you missed part one, you can catch that talk by clicking HERE. If you…

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us… At this moment the entire world is captivated as 33 Chilean miners are being rescued from what was nearly their grave.  For sixty-nine days they’ve been entombed 2041 feet below the surface after 700,000 tons of rock collapsed around them. But today each one arrives topside to an explosion of…

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God…”** I am thrilled that so many of you have taken the faith promise challenge: Lord, I really want to fund world evangelization, but I lack the means to give more. Would you entrust me with additional resources so I can participate more significantly in spreading Your Good News? But now the rubber…