PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE:”The Most Perfect Hope-Out of a Public Execution?” Our world has learned that civilization has failed. Six thousand years of world history tells us on every page that our situation is hopelessly without answers. It is only when history intersects with the Road of Calvary, and the Christ of the Cross-does that picture…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “A Plain Heroic Breed that Loved Heaven’s Silence More than Fame”. One of the greatest ways to study the Bible is to do a study of Bible Personalities. There is much to be learned about God, and about ourselves, as we delve into the narrative of how God was involved in the…
Pastor’s Perspective: Radical or Ludicrous Twaddle? John Henry Jowett said, “ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing!” That statement may be one of the most pertinent comments on the modern evangelical church today. We have heard our Lord’s commission. We have committed ourselves to carrying it out, in obedience to His command. It seems that all…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The little difference that makes a big difference”. Howard W. Ferrin, President of Providence Bible College, used to exhort his students often with the following words: “There is little difference between men, but that little difference makes a big difference!” He told them that to encourage them to pay the price; to…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: HOW TO AVOID THE PATH THAT LEADS TO “DEADNESS INSIDE”. Chuck Colson, in his book Born Again, tells how he came to the conclusion that you can succeed, by all the standards of the world, even in pursuing all the right goals, and still end up empty and “totally dead inside”. …
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Social Distancing-The End of the World As We Know It?” Lorie Hill wrote a poem titled In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb. It goes like this: “March roars in like a lion So fierce, The wind so cold It seems to pierce The month rolls on And Spring draws near…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “A Brand Plucked From the Fire-with the World His Gospel Parish”. One of the most interesting and impacting Christian influences of the 18th Century was John Wesley. Historians feel that he, and possibly George Whitefield, are the reason that England escaped the Revolutionary tragedy and turmoil that plagued France during this same…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The Road To…Going…Going…Gone!” A wife came home from Church. The husband, in his easy chair reading the paper, asked what the preacher preached about today. She begins setting lunch on the table, and replies “Sin”. The husband inquired further, “what did he say about it?” His wife replied quite matter-of-factly-“he’s agin’ it!” …
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “POWER IN THE SON AND POWER IN THE SACRIFICE” Last Sunday was a blessed Sunday…more than what was anticipated or expected. The weather was projected to be dangerously cold, and hazardous with ice. On top of that Bill had covid. His family was exposed and unable to come. Regeneration had to be…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “ABIDING HARD BY THE CROSS-SO SPARKS OF CALVARY CAN KINDLE OUR FIRE”. Matthew 27:36 says “And sitting down they were watching Him there”. Mark 15:40 says, “The women were there looking from afar off and were looking on”. He lists them, “Mary Magdalene, Mary of James the least, and Joseph’s mother, (John calls her of…