PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Christmas: Taking the Scandal of the God-man as seriously as it deserves to be taken!” By: Ron Woodrum Frederick Buechner writes, “The Incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers…Until we too have taken the idea of the…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “A MOST MISCHEVIOUS SUPERSTION”-“ROOTED IN HISTORY!” By: Ron Woodrum As we celebrate Christmas again this year there is a troubling trend that I think never quite gets addressed by Christians. Christmas celebration each year is a mixture of fact and fiction that somehow neutralizes the impact that Christmas should have for…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: ”BECOMING A COMPLETE MAN-WHILE REMAINING GENUINELY GOD”. By: Ron Woodrum In July of 1978, a little girl named Louise Brown was born in England. She was born 5 pounds and 12 ounces. She was a tiny baby. But she came into the world as a most unusual baby. Louise Brown’s birth…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “CHRISTMAS-GOD HOOKING AN EXTRA ON THE FRONT OF ORDINARY” By: Ron Woodrum Thanksgiving is now past. The major post-Thanksgiving sales are on. Black Friday-Small Business Saturday-Cyber Monday. Then all the adds that remind us exactly how many days to Christmas. The Christmas season is suddenly on us! Every year each Pastor…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Making the Daily Christian life Really Daily!” Someone, hoping to catch the witty cowboy entertainer Will Rogers off guard, asked him, “If you knew you only had 48 hours to live how would you spend them?” He responded, “One at a time!” Days, like hours, (and minutes and seconds for that…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “A Plain Heroic Breed that Loved Heaven’s Silence More than Fame”. By: Ron Woodrum One of the greatest ways to study the Bible is to do a study of Bible Personalities. There is much to be learned about God, and about ourselves, as we delve into the narrative of how God…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Uncovering the buried original shimmering you!” By: Ron Woodrum In the play Death of A Salesman, written by Arthur Miller in 1949, which won a Purlitzer Prize for drama, and a Tony Award for Best Play, there is one scene that speaks volumes. Willie Loman has committed suicide. The family is standing…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The Question that Never Get Asked-or Answered!” By: Ron Woodrum I recently heard Ravi Zacharias talking about Jesus dodging entrapment by the Pharisees. The story is recorded in Luke 20:24. A Pharisee asked Jesus if it was lawful to pay tribute/taxes to Tiberius Caesar. Jesus asked for a denarius. He asked whose image…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Would you take my regrets?-For I Remember Everything.” By: Ron Woodrum Sara was rich. She had inherited twenty million dollars. Plus she had an additional income of one thousand dollars a day. That’s alot of money any day, but it was immense in the late 1800’s. Sarah was well known. She…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “More Star-like Than a Star” By: Ron Woodrum This past week Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, citing the reason being his masterful talent of writing lyrical poetry like no one else in history. Most who are familiar with Dylan’s music, would admit that his vocal abilities are…