PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: Christian Rip Van Winkles? Ushers get ready with crash helmets and signal flares? By: Ron Woodrum If you visit the town of Irvington, New York, not far from Tarrytown, the location of Sunnyside, the home of Washington, Irving, you will come across a bronze statue of Rip Van Winkle. Rip (Rest In…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: MIMICING AND MODELING HE WHO IS ‘BETTER THAN THE BEST FATHER!’ By: Ron Woodrum One little boy’s definition of Father’s Day went something like this…”it’s just like Mother’s Day, only we don’t spend as much!” Well we father’s can concede that, usually due to our own frugality and insistence! Someone else has…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Alexander my Shepherd too?” By: Ron Woodrum One of the most interesting prophecy passages in all of the Bible is found in Isaiah, written 150 years before Cyrus was born, relates to Cyrus the Great, King of Persia. In Isaiah 45:1 God says, “I summon you by name and bestow on…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Encountering a Living Presence”. By: Ron Woodrum Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, told a very fascinating story about an encounter he had while getting his hair cut at a Barbershop. Listen to his words: “I was sitting in a barber chair when I was aware that a…