From the Pastor's Perspective...... (Page 2)

So much has been said about the price of gas in our economy. People have said that it costs them so much for gas that they cannot afford to go to work. People who used to fill their tanks cab now only afford a half tank of gas. You can’t keep on going if you run out of gas. The same thing is true spiritually. So many of as Christians get weary in the battle that it seems impossible for…

The question is real. What good is fussing, or contention in our lives? It isn’t. We live in a world where contention is the norm, where strife is expected, and the negative responses to strife are strong. As a child of the King, is that the kind of attitude that honors the Lord? No. Not a chance Proverbs 20:3 “It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.” God says that it…

From the beginning of time, God had something for man to do. Genesis 2:15 “And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” The very first thing that happened with Adam after God created him is that God gave him a job to do. If we think about this, the same thing is true for you and me today. I have a job to do for the…

Every one of us has done things which, after the fact, we realize that thing that we did was not the smartest thing in the world. As a teenager, I worked a very physical job and took risks with my body. I was young and with that mindset of knowing it all and invincibility that most teenagers have, I threw my body around. In one case, I can home with a black and blue (mostly black) bruise on my back…

Over the decades of serving the Lord, and desiring souls to be saved, I have watched our society change. Things that the average person considered to be sin 30 years ago is no longer thought of as sin.  One such thing would be living with an intimate partner without being married.  We would say the couple was living together, or “shacking up.” God calls it fornication. Today, many couples see no need or benefit from being married. The result of…

In John chapter 11, we read the well known story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. The Lord learns that Lazarus is ill. He waits before he departs. By the time He arrive, Lazarus has been in his tomb for a total of four days. After dealing with the sisters of Lazarus, Mary and Martha, the Lord makes His way to the tomb. He commands those men who are present to roll the stone away from the tomb. Once…

In Matthew 17, after Jesus comes down off the Mount of Transfiguration with Peter, James, and John, they run into a man with a son who is a lunatic. The young man falls into the fire, then the water. His body is being ripped apart. His mind is gone. The remaining nine disciples are unable to help the boy or the dad. These confused disciples, who had already been out and had the power of God flow through them are…

It is a problem that churches have. It is a problem that we have as individual Christian. It is a problem that would derail us in our work for the Lord and in our walk with the Lord if we do not deal with it. The problem has a name and that name is Satan. Consider what the Bible says. Zechariah 3:1-2 “And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing…

One of the incredible things about the book of Amos revolves around who Amos is. He is not a priest. He never went to Bible College. He was neither a theologian or a scholar.  He was just a guy who was employed in keeping cattle. In other words, you could say he was an old-time cowboy.  Yet, God used him in a great way to reach Israel with the Word of God. Amos 1:1 “The words of Amos, who was…

When Nebuchadnezzar calls upon his wise men, his advisors to tell him what he has dreamed and the meaning thereof, they protest. They declare it cannot be done. Daniel, however, comes to the king and declares that it can happen. It cannot happen by the power of man, but only by the power of God. So God can handle things that we cannot.  For you and me, we should recognize what the Lord can do in our lives. Verse 11…

As Jeremiah laments over the fall of Jerusalem, God gave him the following words to begin Lamentations 2:17. “The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old.” If we think about this sentence for a minute, it holds so much of how God works in it’s words. Let’s break it down. The Lord hath done that which He had devised.  God had a plan. What happened…