PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE; “Encountering a Living Presence”. 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 had entered…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “LAST DAY FAITH-LASTING OR LAPSING?” I remember hearing Adrian Rogers, who passed away in November 2005, said in a sermon, “In the last days people will be deserting the Church like rats deserting a sinking ship!” He was basing it on what Paul said in I Timothy 4:1 “The Spirit expressly says, in…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: THE INESCAPABLE PERTUBATIONS OF GOD’S LOVE “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung, and possibly be broken…the only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of (God’s) love is Hell”. The Bible’s main message…
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…