Category Archives: From the Pastor’s Desk

Is it Political or is it Biblical? Part 2

If you listen, watch, or read just about any daily news report, it is obvious there is much division in our world. The ever-present political ads that election season brings highlights this division. Is there a wrong or right in all of this? Are the issues that divide us simply preference issues? Are they philosophical…

Is it Political or Biblical?

When I went to college in the 90's, dialogue between two opposing sides was very much encouraged. It was encouraged in private colleges and in public ones, by liberals and conservatives. It was generally agreed on as a hallmark of a democratic free society and necessary for higher, critical thinking. Unfortunately, things have changed. Cancel…

Regaining Perspective Part 2

Perspective colors everything: our attitude, our effort, and our perspective of success. This message today will continue the theme of regaining a proper perspective, especially as it relates to suffering and success. Building off of the suffering of the saints described in Revelation 13 and 14, this message will look a biblical view of life,…

Regaining Perspective

Sometimes life is discouraging. It may be personal struggles, it may be injustices, it may just be the daily grind that gets us down. Sometimes, we need to regain perspective. Usually we think of reading the Bible as something that should help us, should encourage us. I have to admit though, that as I worked…

The Beast and His Partner in Deception Part 2

Are you a spiritual person? The fact that you are here, reading this post seems to indicate that you are or that you at least have some interest in the spiritual. It is only, well, natural. We are spiritual creatures made in the image of the True God. Although we are a fallen and sin-corrupted…

The Beast and His Partner in Deception Part 1

Revelation 13 paints a portrait of a future leader to whom the nations of the world will give absolute power and worship. It describes how the world will submit to a totalitarian form of government where even the smallest buying and selling requires the official seal of this man on your body and any disobedience…

Understanding the Battle of the Ages Part 2

Whether we realize it or not, we are living in a world occupied by the worst enemy of all time - Satan. We live under his oppression - it is seen all around us. The Bible tells us that the whole world lies under his sway. He easily controls those who don't know Christ as…

Understanding the Battle of the Ages

Throughout history their are many examples of oppressed people waiting for deliverance. One example is that of the French in World War 2 hoping and waiting for the Allies to deliver them from the oppression of the German occupation. In the midst of that waiting and hoping, they had to continue to live and not…

Giving Grace to the Very End

Dane Ortland, in his book "Gentle and Lowly", describes Christ's desire to show grace with a story about a doctor on a mercy mission. He flies to a remote village that has never had the benefit of modern medicine to bring a cure to their illness and disease. He is traveling with all his tools…

The End of Delay

[embed]https://youtu.be/T2cIR4TNGFY[/embed]Psalm 24 tells us: "The earth is the Lord's and all it's fullness the world and those who dwell therein. For He has found it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters." It can be hard sometimes to understand why, if the Lord is the master of the world, that it is so…