Category Archives: From the Pastor’s Desk

Father to the Fatherless

Not everyone, as you may well know, has had the blessing of a good dad involved in their lives. Sadly, many our suffering even now from a "father wound" that was inflicted years ago. Does God care? Does He offer anything for those who have no one to say "Happy Father's Day" to? Absolutely! Join…

With Us to the End of Days

God's promise to us has never been that He would make life easy. What He has promised is that "He would never leave us nor forsake us" (Hebrews 13:5) and that if we are one of His, He would discipline us because He loves us (Hebrews 12:5) to make us more like Jesus (Romans 8:28-29). …

Lessons on Sowing and Reaping

Daniel 11 is both an amazing and disturbing chapter. It is amazing, because it prophesied with striking detail many world events between the end of the Old Testament and the time of Christ's birth. Those who reject the Bible as the supernatural Word of God are forced to deny this chapter as a product of…

A Glimpse Behind the Scenes

Seeing is believing; but is what we see all there is? Is what we know all there is to know? By the time we become adults we have learned that there is a lot more to life than what we already know and there is a lot happening in the world that we do not…

Antichrist and the Raging Battle

Are you familiar with the term Antichrist? Many people have heard the term, and figure it's something from the book of Revelation, but did you know that the person Antichrist is mentioned throughout Scripture just not by that name? In fact, the only books of the Bible that use that name are 1 and 2…

Trusting That God Will Finish What He Started

Sometimes we have trust issues. We struggle to believe that God really does love us and is working in our lives. Bob La Forge writes, in his book Contemplating the Almighty, "To say that God is faithful or consistent is not to imply, however, that He is predictable. Much bitterness toward God results from a…

Serving God Where You Are, the Way You Are

Heroes often get celebrated, but the ordinary, can be forgotten. The truth is though, that the world doesn't run on heroes. The world runs on ordinary people doing good. It runs on people doing the right thing, over and over every day, unnoticed. While heroes are needed to stop super villains, what has helped us…

Responding Well to Correction

Can you remember the last time someone corrected you? How did you feel about that? Were you glad or sad or angry? Correction is something we all need at times, some more than others, but we are often resistant. To accept correction means we are admitting we were wrong. Admitting we were wrong means admitting…

Help for Understanding God’s Ways

When things go bad in the world, we often start to wonder what God is doing. Why is He allowing so many problems, so much trouble? We are tempted to think, to worry, that maybe God has faded from the scene or stopped caring. Because He knows our humanness and our tendencies, God has taken…

Acknowledging the Conflict With Hope

It is easy to forget that God calls us to be salt and light in this world. Christ followers can become jaded to the sin and depravity of the culture and miss how far status quo is from the lifestyle God calls us to. Many have done this and find themselves a long way from…