by Roger | Dec 31, 2019 | Pastor's Pen, Uncategorized
Sometime ago I was in line at the post office when a lady approached the clerk with a package. As is customary, the clerk asked: “Is there anything liquid, fragile, hazardous or perishable in it?” The next person in line was a bubbly-type woman, and she...
by Roger | Dec 31, 2019 | Pastor's Pen, Uncategorized
The scriptures teach that a believer is “not to think of himself more highly that he ought to think.” Pride is the great roadblock to receiving God’s blessings (James 4:6) as well as the great catalyst of personal disputes.After Charles Lawrence had...
by Roger | Dec 31, 2019 | Pastor's Pen, Uncategorized
At the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., there is a large wooden altar from a synagogue that was vandalized by Nazi soldiers who had come to remove the Jewish citizens of the city. Across the altar is a single phrase of Hebrew carved deeply into the wood. Though it...
by Roger | Dec 31, 2019 | Pastor's Pen, Uncategorized
All of us have been hurt or disappointed by others in some way, shape, or form. The key is not to let those experiences produce a spirit of bitterness. The Civil War left a tragic aftermath of hatred and resentment in America. One man who refused to participate in or...
