Pastor's Pen
Hazardous Material
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 jokingly asked...
Paul Revere’s Horse
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 developed the...
Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever
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...
Cut it Down and Forget it
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...
