PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “THANKSLIVING: It’s better than THANKSGIVING!” I am not sure when, where, or who first used the term “thanksliving”. Peter Gomes, renowned preacher of Harvard University in the 20th Century, (though not one I am particularly able to embrace the theology he embraced), wrote that he had a friend who kept an old Sunday…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Laser-Light Gospel Evangelism”. I was led to Christ by Pastor Russell Pittman, of the Salem Baptist Church of Decatur, Illinois in early September 1968. The next year, after growing in Christ, I felt God calling me to give up plans to go to the University of Illinois and be a Physical Education…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “THANKSGIVING-The inner health made audible…praise in it’s complete enjoyment…it’s appointed consummation”. Ian McPherson, Scottish novelist (1905-1944), tells about traveling across England by train one hot summer day. As the train rolled to a stop in a little village, through the open windows of his train car, McPherson could hear someone outside shouting,…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Catacoombs Conquering the Colieseum”. 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…