Thoughts from Your Pastor
I love to see the seasons change. I’m a genuine four seasons kind of guy. And I’m not talking about the “seasons” they have in Arizona (hot, hotter, hottest) but a clearly defined four seasons that are profoundly different. Perhaps I appreciate the change of seasons because just as the heat and humidity of summer …
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Man is a creative and innovative creature. This is a function of the image of God within him. God is a creative God. His insights and wisdom are infinite. God can conceive of anything and everything of which we could not possibly conceive. And while we do not have infinite creativity we have significant creativity …
When the young American Revolution was nigh unto coming undone, Philosopher and Scholar Thomas Paine wrote a series of 16 pamphlets, written in common language, to bolster the sagging morale of the Colonists. Often known as, The American Crisis, or simply, The Crisis, there are 16 pamphlets in total. Thirteen numbered pamphlets were published between 1776 and 1777, …
Until I came to know the Lord and went to college, I was never a serious student. My elementary, middle school (Jr. High when I was a boy), and high school academic effort and achievement were doubtless below average and just enough to get to the next grade level. I did not like school… at …
"To Love Somebody" is a song written by Barry and Robin Gibb. Barry was the lead singer for a group known as the Bee Gees and the song was released by the Bee Gees from their international debut album, Bee Gees 1st, in 1967. The song was not an immediate smash hit although it did rise to #17 on the Charts …
I just read that dog ownership is up to about 68 percent in American homes. It is a sharp increase in the last few years from somewhere in the mid-fifties. Dog people are gaining; cat people are in the increasing minority. The war, I am sure will continue. What is it about dogs that so …
Years ago, a game came out called “Trivial Pursuit”. Wikipedia Says, “Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions (hence 'Trivial things'). The game was created on December 15, 1979 in Montreal in Quebec, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sports editor …
What leads to spiritual downfall? How is it that some who were once so committed to the things of the Lord can drift away from that commitment and come to spiritual ruin? Well, certainly it can be that those who manifest such things indicate that they might never had been truly regenerate in the first …
Friendship and comradery are strange things. Over the years I have come to be surprised to find out that in the church, somebody has become great friends with someone else. I have found myself asking, “How did they get linked up” as friends because it seems like they have little in common. One of my …
When I was a very young pastor up in Columbiaville, Michigan, we had a small country church on the edge of a little backwater village. There were no more than 900 people in the town and it had one blinking stop light on one of the corners. But it was our first church and we …
