Pastor’s Blog (Page 33)
seasoned with salt
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…
Rest Day
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…
pressing on
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: deliberate confidence
“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…
Faith Promise Giving
Dear Woodland Hills Family, The graph to the right expresses how things have been going in our economy for some time now. I think most of us have felt it first-hand in some way or another– job loss, pay cuts, reduced hours, devalued investments, and so on. But the graph below expresses something that has been going on here at Woodland Hills…
planning to fail?
Dear Woodland Hills Family, Last week Barb and I shoe-horned ourselves into two of those econo-ticket airline seats and headed for San Diego to take part in Reyner and Jennie’s wedding. Somewhere over Arizona, Barb happened upon the September 13 issue of Time Magazine. Of all the ironies while enroute to a wedding, this issue featured a new business venture…