The Pastor’s Heart 7/28/2017

“Heaviness.”  Not a pleasant sounding topic for today, is it?  But it’s a word found in 1 Peter 1:6.  In the New Testament it’s also translated “sorrow” and “grief.”  You can look at this week’s “Prayer Focus” list and see it.  Heart problems.  Back problems.  Unemployment.  Accidents.  Cancer.  Unsaved friends and family.  Bereavement.  More cancer. …

The Pastor’s Heart 7/21/2017

The conversation was going well.  The two men were developing quite a bond about a mutual passion – basketball.  But then it happened….  The other night I was watching one of my favorite movies about a small-town basketball team that rises up from nothing to play for and win (of course!) a state championship.  The…