PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Avoid the reefs of the New Year!”\ Let’s say that your phone rings tomorrow morning, and it’s a call from the manager of your bank. He tells you, “I received a very unusual call the other day. Someone who loves you very much and is quite wealthy, has given you a large…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “SLOWLY GROWING WISE ABOUT THE FUTURE” Tri Valley Baptist Church has completed its first twenty five years of ministry. Over the years we have had many men of God lead us in the ministry of winning our community to Christ. I believe it has been the measure of every Pastor to lead…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “CHRISTMAS-GOD HOOKING AN EXTRA ON THE FRONT OF ORDINARY” Thanksgiving is now past. The major post-Thanksgiving sales are on. Black Friday-Small Business Saturday-Cyber Monday. Then all the adds that remind us exactly how many days to Christmas. The Christmas season is suddenly on us! Every year each Pastor is faced with the…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: BE A CHILD NEVER BETTER THAN AT CHRISTMAS. In his book Whistling in the Dark, Frederick Buechner tells how one young Pastor had the real message of Christmas brought home to him in a real way. This is what Buechner says, “The lovely old carols played and replayed until their effect is like a…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The unedited Christmas and the Perfect Tree” It’s the king of all classic TV Christmas specials: “A Charlie Brown Christmas“. It first aired in 1965. We know the familiar scenes of Charlie Brown looking for the real meaning of Christmas; receiving no cards from anyone; Snoopy decorates his doghouse; Lucy has her…