PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Unmasking the Fiend Within” By: Ron Woodrum In a few days doorbells all across America will ring and residents answering that summons will discover some of the most hideous faces, monsters, and figures standing on their doorsteps beckoning “trick or treat!” Admittedly there is much debate in the Christian realm whether this is…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: SHEPERDING LIKE THE CHIEF SHEPHERD. By: Ron Woodrum One of the most moving scenes in the Bible is the narrative of John 21 when Jesus revisits and restores the Apostle Peter to the ministry Jesus had called him to. Peter was commissioned by the Lord Himself to be a shepherd. On the…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “BECOMING THE GENUINE INTENDED PERSON” By: Ron Woodrum Charles Swindoll, in his book The Grace Awakening, tells a humorous story that was told by the late J.Vernon McGee during one of his preaching assignments in Chafer Chapel at Dallas Theological Seminary. This is what Swindoll shares, “I remember sitting in Chapel as…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: BACK MOVES ARE POSSIBLE-SOARING HIGHER STILL By: Ron Woodrum Richard Ellsworth Day, in his book Filled With The Spirit, tells a story about David Falvey that speaks ever so pertinently to regrets. He writes, “David Falvey had a painful memory of his aged father’s death. The old man, more weakened than anyone…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “His Finger on the Text!” By: Ron Woodrum On January 31, 2014 German scientists announced that after almost 26 years of research that the bones interred for centuries at Aachen Cathedral in Germany were the genuine bones of the Emperor Charlemagne. Researchers confirmed on that Wednesday evening, 1200 years to the day…