Pastor’s Blog (Page 14)
Celebrating Christ
On pages 1, 2, and 3 in my Bible everything is humming along splendidly. What a wonderful, beautiful, glorious creation! But just a mere page-turn away is the Great Tragedy. Enter decay, disease, drudgery, deformity, dissension, disorder… and death. “For in the day that you eat of it…” The curse was (and is) dreadful. Yet in God’s mercy that was not the end of the story.…
Genesis 4
Chapter 4 of Genesis is one of the most disheartening chapters in the entire Bible. The first homicide. And no apparent remorse by the murderer. Then another killing. And this murderer brags about it and dares anyone to touch him. Here we also find the first instance of polygamy. And for the first time we read that a person left the LORD’s presence. But at the close of…
God’s Questions
Last Sunday we talked about the questions God asked Cain and Adam and Eve. Interestingly, we find God asking questions of people all through the pages of Scripture: “What is that in your hand?” (Exodus 4:2) “What are you doing here, Elijah?” (1 Kings 19:9) “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?” (Job 38:4) “Why…
God’s Light
It was a very dark place: “the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep…” On some rare occasion you’ve probably experienced total darkness. Like deep in Mammoth Cave when they turn out all the lights. Not a stitch of light! Not even a hint! From anywhere! You can put your hand a half inch in front of your face and you can’t see…
Peace
The question was once asked, “If you could choose what you want most, what would you ask for?” The most common answer was “Peace.” That sense that “all is well.” We want peace in our marriages and families, at school and work, in our neighborhoods and cities, and in our country and world. But instead we have broken marriages, splintered families, and fractured…
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,…