Pastor’s Blog (Page 36)

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…

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…

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…

Now Jesus was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart (Luke 18:1) The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. (James 5:16) Consider the following, supposedly a true story. In Mt. Vernon, Texas, Drummond’s Bar began construction on an expansion of their building to increase their business. In response, the…

If the Apostle Paul were alive today and wrote to us here at Woodland Hills, how would he likely begin his letter? Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to all the holy ones at Woodland Hills… grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. There are several features that mark Paul’s salutations, but notice this one…