Pastor’s Posts
Refining Fires
All around us the howling of a windstorm, The cold of a snowstorm, thermals of a firestorm. Not talking weather but trials beyond displeasure. Storms’ outer afflictions and inner contradictions. Is your furnace oven, white hot with burning heat? Is this Refiner’s fire? “Please, no more,” you entreat. “I can’t take any more! To…
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Christmas 2019
The human dilemma’s incurable disease, Fraught with conflict, drama, maker of misery. Not positive thinking, nor resolutions new, Can overcome the sin that lies in me and you. We put on happy fronts, “Everything is OK.” “Great things are happening.” (At least, that’s what we say). But something’s in the heart that makes a…
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He Took Our Poison
In Kenya, at the Kejave Medical Center, eight-year-old named Monica broke her leg when falling into a pit. An older woman, Mama Njeri, came along and climbed into the pit to help get Monica out. Neither of them saw a poisonous black Mamba snake. The black mamba bit both Mama Njeri and Monica. Monica was…
Read MoreThe Woman at the Well
An excerpt from our daily devotional. Please let us know if you would like to sign up to receive these in your email each week! There is a hole in our lives so deep, a longing so great that can only be quenched by one thing. That is God himself. A hole that seems…
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One Soldier
THE SOLDIER August 2, 2022 The soldier loved gambling, the rolling of the dice, Breaks up monotony, though a fool’s paradise. “A God-forsaken land, a thousand miles from home, At discharge will I have post-traumatic syndrome?” Punishment here, severe, death for two lousy thieves, Was the third one sentenced for just what…
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Independence Day
July 4, 2022 Oh, Independence Day! Blessed Declaration! The law above a king, blessed separation! Unalienable rights, endowed by the Lord God. Truths that we will hold dear. The governed have the nod. And for seven long years, a war of attrition. Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill, Concord and Lexington. Fort Ticonderoga, Trenton…
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