Pastor’s Blog (Page 42)

Steroids are all the rage these days, aren’t they? (Pun intended.) Lots of talk about who has and who hasn’t used them. Plenty of denials. And big debates over whether some individuals’ new world records really mean anything. It matters to us because our inner sense of fairness demands an even playing field. It doesn’t seem right for someone to secretly use a chemical…

You know the feeling. You’ve been giving it all you’ve got… trying as hard as you can… pushing and pulling with all your might… And you’ve been going at it this way for so long! But now there’s nothing left in you to go any further. You’re out of gas. You realize it’s not going to happen—this giant is just too big. It’s time to pull the plug, throw in the…

A friend called the other day all excited about the Green Comet coming by earth that night. The comet’s green-glowing atmosphere is about the size of Jupiter—about 300,000 miles wide. It has two tails, one facing the sun and the other facing away. And this would be its only trip through our solar system, so we’d better not miss the 3:00 a.m. spectacular! Pictures…

King Amon was afforded only 2 years to get his stuff together. 1 His father Manasseh was wicked till late in life and finally repented. Maybe Amon thought he’d have the same chance: “I’ll get around to repentance later… I want to have some fun first.” Nope. Dead at 24. After just 2 years, the jig was up. His number was called. No one is…

Happy Valentine’s Day!  Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s…

True, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I think I’m seeing a pattern here in the biblical kings: Rehoboam humbled himself and the anger of the Lord turned away from him… 1 “Because Ahab has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days…” 2 Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart… therefore the wrath of the LORD…