Pastor’s Blog (Page 39)
refreshed
Have you been watching the mercury soar? Looks like the “dog days of summer” are here — hot, muggy, stagnant, and stifling. Who has energy for anything? Coca Cola used to market their drink as “the pause that refreshes!” But with heat like we’ve been having, what could be more refreshing than diving into one of these cool, mountain…
Our 25th anniversary
Barb and I have always dreamed we’d celebrate our 25th anniversary on a cruise to the islands of the Caribbean. Well, the dream didn’t quite materialize. But week before last, we did get on a boat. And we did go the the “islands.” Here’s a re-cap. Friends Lew and Debe Wayburn put us onto someone who let us use a pontoon boat for a night…
Inner beauty is what counts!
This sign caught my eye as I drove by a nearby school of cosmetology. It struck me because here on Ashland Road we’re working with all our might this year to stress how God looks at the inner person. But just around the corner on St. Andrews Road they’re working with all their might to keep the focus on the outer person! Aaargh! Well, I have a few thoughts…
blown fuses
Why is this girl smiling? Because she finally has music! For graduation we gave Elisabeth this older car. Unfortunately, it has had a number of “issues,” one of the more serious being, “No tunes!” It came with a high-dollar stereo… that was dead as a door-nail. I finally dug into this problem one evening last week. Crawled under the dash and found the fuse… which was…
running the race
You should have seen our Woodland Hills triathletes competing at the recent Lake Carolina Sprint! A 500 meter swim, an 11 mile bike ride, and a 5 kilometer run. You’d have been proud! As we cheered them on, I couldn’t help thinking of all the biblical references to athletic contests: If anyone competes as an athlete… he competes according to the rules.1…
what’s your legacy?
What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.* Who knows this better than Farah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays? In only a week, each of these stepped from the seen into the unseen, from the temporary into the eternal. Sometimes these made-for-TV, larger-than-life celebrities seem immortal or invincible. But the awful truth…