PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Catacombs Conquering the Coliseum”. Things aren’t always as they appear. A recent magazine carried an article on the Coliseum in Rome. It spoke of it as the place where “Christians died for a faith, that is now taken too lightly”. i.e. “taken for granted”. We look back to that famous historic amphitheater…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “We have not seen the last of the best!” 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 Salem Baptist Church of…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “JESUS SAVES: GET THE MESSAGE OUT ANYWAY YOU CAN…IT STILL HAS POWER TO MEET OUR DEEPEST NEED”. One of my favorite hymns is the hymn-“JESUS SAVES”. I’m sure you recall the lyrics. We have heard the joyful sound Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves! Spread the tidings all around Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves! Bear…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “AFTER-CHRISTS…IN TEN THOUSAND PLACES!” When Jesus breathed His last breath, and Joseph of Arimathea and Nichodemus claimed His body and buried it in that borrowed tomb everyone-followers and enemies thought that was the tragic end. The Jewish leaders thought they had squashed the crisis that was the greatest threat to Judaism, as…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “DISAPPEARING ACT FOR THE MAGNIFICIENT MAGNET!” Somebody stole the cross. Go figure! Well that was a news story that got my attention a few years ago. The missing cross was a six-foot-tall metal structure that was embedded in rock and concrete, and it was perched high upon a Sunrise Rock in the…