The Pastor’s Heart 3/22/2019

“Don’t ever put a picture of me like that for my obituary.  Find a good one!”  Those were my wife’s words as she glanced through the newspaper one evening this week.  And don’t pretend that some of you have never said or at least thought the same thing!  I hope I never have to worry about that;…

The Pastor’s Heart 3/15/2019

Usually it just says “Wash Me.”  But this one was different.  I’m always seeing things written on the back of the trailers on the interstate, and I don’t usually pay much attention.  The one that caught my eye the other evening may have been written as a joke, or maybe the writer was serious; I have no…

The Pastor’s Heart 3/8/2019

I read the phrase a little over a week ago, and it has stuck.  I hope I can make sense of it to you today.  Three simple words that have surfaced over and over again in my heart.  “Truth trumps survival.”  It was written in a discussion concerning the early church and their commitment to stand…

The Pastor’s Heart 3/1/2019

It’s true because it’s in the Bible.  It’s true because we live it.  It’s true, undeniably true.  It’s the phrase found in Proverbs 27:1 that says, “thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”  When we consider that phrase, we usually think of something negative, but it’s not always that way.  A day can…