Pastor’s Blog (Page 42)

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…

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.” Amon did evil in the sight of the Lord as Manasseh his father had done.” 1 Only he didn’t humble himself like his dad did. What’s worse, he multiplied guilt.2 It wasn’t enough just to add guilt. “He sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served…

It was another time and place, but does any of this sound familiar? A new man was assuming the top office. Huge crowds gathered to celebrate. Excitement and anticipation were in the air. And a man prayed for the new leader. Here’s what he prayed: “Give to my son Solomon a perfect heart—to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all.” 1…