PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Jacob’s Ladder at Charing Cross?” Author Philip Yancey tells of an experience playing chess with a master player. He explains his rapid realization that no matter what move he made, no matter what strategy he chose, the master seemed to turn his play around to serve his own purposes. If the truth…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “NO RETREAT-NO DEFEAT” Stonewall Jackson, the famous Confederate general. Though our culture is trying to re-write history, he should still be seen as an American hero, and also as a dynamic Christian personality. He is an example to us as Christians today on how to fight in our spiritual battles and warfare….
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: BELONGING IS VERY NECESSARY There are many voices today decrying the Church of Jesus Christ. They tell us that she is outdated. Irrelevant. Impotent. Unneccesary. The focus basically is-you can be a Christian. You can love the Lord. You can live for Him in the world today-but you don’t need, nor will…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Hollow Saints-Hollow Church” Things are not always as they appear. No one has hammered that message home with more impact than the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, in his poem Richard Cory. He tells the story of a model citizen who was the envy of his entire town. Then he pulls the rug…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The LORD of the Sum of All The Parts!” Jay Rathman was hunting deer in the Tehema Wildlife Area near Red Bluff in northern California. He climbed to a ledge on the slope of a rocky gorge. As he raised his head to look over the ledge above, he sensed movement to…