Pastor’s Blog
Blessings and the Blesser
November 22, 2016 Mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, relish tray, succulent juicy turkey, sparkling punch, seven-layer salad, homemade rolls smothered in real butter, and pumpkin pie, pecan pie, cherry pie, apple pie and please no...
How’s Your Thank-O-Meter?
November 16, 2016 Hebrews 13:15 “By him (Jesus) therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.” How long would it take you to come up with something to be thankful to God for? I would...
I Voted: “…where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
November 8, 2016 I just left the voting booth. For me it was a happy sad time: happy for the candidates I could vote for in good conscience, sad as I had difficulty voting for the most important job, the President of the United States. As a Christian, I would have...
So What Are You Afraid Of?
November 1, 2016 Where does fear come from? Fear is really a crisis of faith. The spirit of fear does not come from God. It either comes with our own uncertainty in dealing with circumstances beyond our control. Or fear comes from our musings about the potential ‘what...
A Cup of Water In My Name
October 25, 2016 This past Friday, my wife and I got to travel to Nashville, TN to give a ten-minute testimony of my salvation experience at the National Gideon’s convention. The Gideons wanted me to come because when I trusted Christ as my Savior I was reading from...
Perfect Purchase Price Paid
October 10, 2016 Before Jesus left the cross to go to the grave, He said these words: “It is finished.” All the heavy lifting for the redemption of our souls was carried by Him. It is the epitome of delusional self-centered thinking for one to believe they could add...
Certainty of Heaven
September 19, 2016 You may be wondering if I had dropped off the face of the earth. Sorry it has taken me awhile to get back online. We have had to walk through the valley of the shadow of death with my sister-in-law. I praise God she was a believer on the Lord Jesus...
Building A Wall
August 30, 2016 Seems we are hearing a lot about wall building in this election cycle. If you wanted to do an interesting Bible study on walls, you should read your Bible. On Sunday mornings, we are going through the book of Nehemiah and the process of the rebuilding...
Can God Bless America?
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; And the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.”[i] Psalm 33:12 Our country and its founders recognized the God of the Bible as foundational to the success and prosperity of this great nation. All one needs to...
One Christian’s Perspective on the Orlando Tragedy
June 15, 2016 There is plenty of sin to go around for all of us. As we look at the human tragedy in Orlando, FL, the talking heads in the media and the politicians are making all kinds of hay to fit their agendas both to the left and to the right. It is only natural...