The Pastor’s Heart 12/31/2015
Today is the end. Tomorrow is the beginning. Today the book closes on 2015, and tomorrow 2016 opens its first chapter. Life seems to be made up of beginnings and…
The Pastor’s Heart 12/18/2015
The other day I stopped by my mother’s house to check on some things, and she asked me go through some stored photo albums (do people use those anymore?) and…
The Pastor’s Heart 12/11/2015
Now it’s Joseph’s turn. You know the story. It’s there in Matthew 1:18-25. Mary, trusting in the God of the impossible, accepts her role as the mother of the Messiah. …
The Pastor’s Heart 12/4/2015
When you think of the Christmas season, what words come to mind? “Joy”? “Peace”? “Good will”? How about “fear”? As you read the story of Christ’s birth in Scripture, you…
The Pastor’s Heart 11/20/2015
Thanksgiving Day is on top of us, and that means one thing for me: time to go to Psalm 100 and do some more digging. Each year at this time,…
The Pastor’s Heart 11/13/2015
It seems to happen every year about this time. I look at the calendar and see Thanksgiving right around the corner, and I’m struck at how fast it seemed to…
The Pastor’s Heart 11/6/2015
No one likes to be cheated. Short-changed. Duped. Bamboozled. When someone hoodwinks us like that, we tend to get angry. We want what is right and fair, what is our…
The Pastor’s Heart 10/23/2015
It was one of those statements. The kind that makes you sit back in your chair and think. One that is profound in its simplicity. One of those “I know…
The Pastor’s Heart 10/16/2015
Death. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul speaks of it as an enemy, in fact, the last enemy to be destroyed. He also refers to its sting. I have felt that…
The Pastor’s Heart 10/9/2015
“I feel like it’s just me and God.” That’s a statement I’ve heard on several occasions. Have you ever felt like that? I think at some point it happens to…