Thoughts from the Pastor

Thoughts from the Pastor

One of the most fascinating historical accounts in the Old Testament is the story of Jonah.  Almost everyone has known this story from childhood, how Jonah was swallowed by a whale (assuming that’s what the term ‘great fish’ means) and lived to tell about...
Thoughts from the Pastor

Thoughts from the Pastor

Yesterday, I had my yearly physical with my family doctor.  The good news is that I appear to be in excellent health.  The bad news is that, at 75 years old, he is retiring, which means I must find a new doctor. During our conversation I told him I...
Thoughts from the Pastor

Thoughts from the Pastor

I recently had a Pastor email me about a homosexual preacher on ‘Tik Tok’ that is teaching that Jesus encounter with a Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7:24-30 reveals that He was a racist and also that He was not sinless.  This is part and parcel of...

Thoughts from the Pastor

The first two commandments God gave Israel were, “Thou shall have no other gods before Me”, and “Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image.”  He followed the 2nd commandment up with, “Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I...

Thoughts from the Pastor

This morning I was glancing at Facebook and stumbled across a post by Franklin Graham that goes along with the sermon from this past Sunday concerning God’s immutability.  His information evidently came from a recent survey of evangelical...