PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Avoid the reefs of the New Year!” (By: Ron Woodrum) Let’s say that your phone rings tomorrow morning, and it’s a call from the manager of your bank. He tells you, “I received a very unusual call the other day. Someone who loves you very much and is quite wealthy, has given…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The unedited Christmas and the Perfect Tree” (By: Ron Woodrum) It’s the king of all classic TV Christmas specials: “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. It first aired in 1965. We know the familiar scenes of Charlie Brown looking for the real meaning of Christmas; receiving no cards from anyone; Snoopy decorates his doghouse; Lucy…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Saved by the faithful effort of the One who Loves Us!” (By: Ron Woodrum) The USS Astoria was a heavy cruiser that saw duty during World War II’s Battle of the Coral Sea and at Midway, then was sunk in August of 1942 at the Battle of Savo Island. On board in…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Be Still…and think the thoughts of God!” (By: Ron Woodrum) In Psalm 46:10 we are told…”Be still and know that I am God.” The Psalmist is saying that it is critical for the Christian to slow down long enough to focus our minds, hearts, minds, and souls upon God…upon knowing Him. That…
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 ads that remind us exactly how many days to Christmas. The Christmas season is suddenly on us! Every year each Pastor is faced…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The Face in the Sky-or the Face From Heaven”. (By: Ron Woodrum) In his book, The Hungering Darkness, Frederick Buechner shares an experience he had while touring Rome, in a sermon in that book entitled “The Face In The Sky”. He was at a theater that was showing the Italian Film La…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Mastering the Hardest Arithmetic-Counting Our Blessings!” By: Ron Woodrum This week is Thanksgiving week. Eric Hoffer says it is the time to “master the hardest arithmetic-counting our blessings!” G.K. Chesterton said, “I would maintain that thanks is the highest form of thought, and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder”. He also said,…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE; “The Mastery of That One Essential Thing”. By: Ron Woodrum Maybe you have seen the movie City Slickers starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance. Billy Crystal plays a white-collar guy named Mitch. He is married with children and is questioning whether anything in his life really matters! He and his two…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Can Christians be Indubitably real ever again?” By: Ron Woodrum The Wesleyan revival of the eighteenth century was one of the great outpourings of the Spirit, and the secret to retaining the fruits of revival was the class meetings that were held by the Wesley’s. They emphasized Bible reading, prayer, holiness and…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “We have not seen the last of the best!” By: Ron Woodrum Revivals have been a big part of my life for over six decades. I was saved in September of 1968. My parents were saved the next fall, November 1969, during a revival with Gerald Thompson as the Evangelist at the…