"Restoring the church to the faith of our fathers"
With a phone call we were told that my sister Patti was not doing well. She had struggled with many infections that had afflicted her body over the last few years. Our family had watched as the evils of diabetes had chipped away little by little at Patti's life. A life that was always the joy and…
Jane Fonda said about her faith...
"I never ever would have gone public with this, ever. A person who had been driving me at that time (because Ted and I shared a car) went on a website and said he had brought me to Christ. And it just spread like wildfire and became front page news. I was outed,…
In 1509, Don Diego Columbus arrived on the island of the West Indies to rule as Spanish governor. Don Diego, the son of the great explorer Christopher Columbus, arrived with several relatives, a large retinue of cavaliers, and a troop of ladies sent to marry and civilize the leading colonists of…
Imagine with me for a moment.
Imagine that you were brought up in the perfect family. You never heard your mother and father exchange a cross word with each other. They were patient and kind all the time. Imagine too, that you were perfect from the day you were born. You never had a rash, you…
I have purposely not written on the issue of abortion in this column. I have come to realize that people seem to believe what they want to believe in order to justify their actions. It’s not that I don’t have a strong opinion on this matter; because I do. However, the purpose of this column is to…
In 1974 the United Nations Organization proclaimed that year to be "World Population Year." It can be shown, in fact, that if the population continued to increase at the rate of 2% per year, in less than 700 years there would be one person for every square foot of the earth's surface. Obviously,…
Our church has undertaken a study of the gospel of John. While preparing for last week’s message, as always, I try to pull from many sources. James Montgomery Boice is one of my favorite writers and I happen to have a number of his books. On the gospel of John, he has a set of five volumes that…
Unfaithfulness is most rampant today. A man’s word is hardly ever deemed his bond as it once was. Finding someone we can count on has become a very hard task. Unfaithfulness is also found in the pulpit. I’m not just talking about the pastors and priests that have let down their congregations with…
Isaiah 59: 1-2
1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
If all things are made by God, and all…
