Pastor’s Blog (Page 28)

Dear Woodland Hills Family, Recently I came across some choice instruction from Chuck Swindoll inspired by our year verse, Matthew 5:16.  I pass it along to you, praying that we will each faithfully live out Christ’s words: Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. [The world] will see…

What’s on Americans’ minds? Increasingly, ‘me’. A recent study* analyzed words and phrases in millions of American books published over the past 50 years. San Diego State University researchers found increasing reference to the individual with an emphasis on “I” before “we” and have concluded this is yet another indication…

As you know, Barb and I are looking forward to our son Jonathan’s wedding in just a couple of weeks. We had thought a boy-wedding would be a piece of cake compared to a girl-wedding. Wrong. It’s different, but it’s still a BIG DEAL! All this has led me to reflect again on the considerable amount of resources marshaled to make a wedding happen. And I…

Collateral damage is “damage that is unintended or incidental to the intended outcome.” The truck driver never intended it, but after his tire blew out several cars impacted the tread carcass and experienced collateral damage. My son David was a few cars back. The car in front of him ran over the blown tire and threw it up in the air. It landed on the front…

Dear Woodland Hills Family, Last Satuday was the first time Walter Szluc, Jr. had gone kayaking in the ocean. When he and his family arrived at Nauset Beach in Orleans, Mass. in Cape Cod, his daughter refused to enter the water out of fear of sharks. He teased her a bit, assuring her of the very small odds of a shark encounter. A while later, Szluc was about 200 feet…

Dear Woodland Hills Family, You may have heard in the news this week: physicists are celebrating the discovery of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that scientists believe gives mass to matter. It’s big news in the world of physics. So big that some people have nicknamed it the “God particle” because they feel it explains the monumental questions…