PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: Ten Questions for a New Year Article by Don Whitney Professor, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Even those most faithful to God occasionally need to pause and think about the direction of their lives. It’s so easy to bump along from one busy week to another without ever stopping to ponder where we’re…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The Monster At the Manger” By: Ron Woodrum Our January Bible Study for 2020 is the Book of Jeremiah. We have a lot of favorite verses in Jeremiah. One of the first ones is Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in thye womb, I knew you, before you were born, I set…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: A Christmas essay: What the world needs now DECEMBER 11, 2019 BY ERIC REED Tourists packing into the tiny mausoleum at Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy must be disappointed at first. Billed as the most spectacular and best-preserved mosaic in Christendom, the ceiling depicts Jesus surrounded by sheep in a green pasture. Travel…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Mastering the Hardest Arithmetic-Counting Our Blessings!” By: Ron Woodrum This past week was 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…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “THANKSLIVING: It’s better than THANKSGIVING!” By: Ron Woodrum I am not sure when, where, or who first used the term “thanksliving”. Peter Gomes, renowned preacher of Harvard University in the 20th Century, (though not one I am particularly able to embrace the theology he embraced), wrote that he had a friend who…
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 powerful personality…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “GOD GIVES JACOB HOLY HEAVEN…AND IT’S ON THE HOUSE!” By: Ron Woodrum The book of Genesis makes no attempt to conceal the fact that Jacob was, among other things, a crook. What’s more, you get the feeling that whoever wrote up his seamy adventures got a real kick out of them. Twice…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The greatness of a man is the measure of his surrender!” By: Ron Woodrum Most of us are very familiar with the ministry of the Salvation Army. We have all given donations to the Red Kettle, and probably many of us have even taken a turn or two at “ringing the bell”. …
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “If they’re breathing-they need Jesus!” By: Ron Woodrum One of the most interesting and convicting authors I have ever read is Mark Cahill. He has only written two books. One is the book One Heartbeat Away: Your Journey into Eternity. It is a disturbing account of how we live with death every…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: The Church’s Last and Lasting Promise by: Ron Woodrum The names Saipan, Iwo Jima, Samoa, Guadalcanal, Bataan, Corregidor to name just a few, meant very little to Americans in the early 1940’s. They were just some God-forsaken pieces of real estate somewhere in the South Pacific! But they would soon become household…