Category Archives: From the Pastor’s Desk

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…

What’s in My Future?

Have you ever wondered what the future held? Being able to answer that has been the plotline of many stories, TV shows, and movies. Sometimes it would be very convenient to know what tomorrow holds, sometimes it would be horrible. Only one really knows the future, whether we are speaking of our personal future or…

Learning from other’s mistakes . . . or not

George Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". It might be more accurate to say, "Those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it" because it is possible to know something without really benefitting from that knowledge. I'm afraid I can testify that it happens a…

How do you handle success?

We often hear that difficult times are what reveals a person's true character, but I think that prosperous times might be just as telling, just as likely to produce a fall. How a person handles success and prosperity is just as telling of there character than how they handle a trial. Maybe more so. In…

Trusting the God Who Holds the Future

Can anyone accurately tell the future? Even more significantly, can anyone control the distant future, especially as it concerns world events? If you met such a person, would you trust them? Daniel chapter 2 clearly states that no human can tell the future. It also states, however, that God can. In fact, He doesn't just…