Pastor’s Blog (Page 2)
It doesn’t take too much to make the roads slippery, does it? Water, ice, and snow can have you sliding or doing spinny things into ditches, telephone poles, or other vehicles. Crrrunchhhh! The roads of life can get pretty slippery, too. With little warning we’re sent careening out of control and into mercilessly hard objects. Relationship crunches. Job…
A few weeks ago we were in Africa visiting our daughter Courtney and her family. Traveling by car in this developing nation is… an experience. There are horse-drawn carts piled high with merchandise, buses with goats on top and people hanging off the back, motorcycles whizzing in and out, and pedestrians playing real-life Frogger. One day while driving we were approaching…
Idleness
We are all familiar with odometers in our vehicles. Odometers show the distance the car has traveled. By this we can often discern how much life the vehicle has left in it. Some vehicles—usually trucks and heavy equipment—also have hour-meter indicators, which show how many hours the engine has been running. A vehicle like a snow plow might not have a lot miles to show,…
Unto us a Son is given! (Is 9:6) We are often deceived into thinking God is a withholder. Nothing could be further from the truth! God is a giving God! And this in spite of our conditionl Consider just a few of the ways He gives: It’s true, isn’t it? He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again! (Annie Johnson Flint, He Giveth More Grace) Worship…
Have you seen this billboard around town? The power of grace! I can’t think of anything more appropriate to say about Christ’s arrival on our planet. God’s grace toward humanity is so powerful that He sent His only Son to be one of us and to rescue us from our sin. Forgiveness for sinners and eternal life is just around the corner! He’ll have to die, of course, and…
Have you noticed the dramatic acceleration of unwholesome speech in our culture? It was not too terribly long ago that: It’s astounding how far we’ve come in such a short time. Today people very routinely utter what used to be grossly obscene and highly offensive. But have you noticed? Hardly anyone even flinches. We have become so desensitized to it. Yet perhaps the most…