Pastor’s Corner

How do we grow in fellowship with God?  For starters we need to be in prayer and to be studying His word. A mere intellectual understanding of scripture will not transform us.  John points this out in his gospel.  John 6:53–56 (NKJV) 53 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat…

The Longest Walk In 1977, George Meegan started walking. It wasn’t just a walk; it was a 19,019-mile unbroken walk from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost point in Alaska. It took him 2,426 days ending in September of 1983. He secured a total of eight world records, in a feat that…

A saving Friday Centuries ago, there was a man who was condemned to die for crimes he had committed, and unbelievably it was actually predicted hundreds of years before the event even happened. Who was this man and what is his story?  Three criminals were being crucified on Golgotha that fateful Friday. He was a…

The First Great Deception   In today’s world it is not uncommon to hear, “that is a lie” or “you can’t believe them.” But is that really accurate? We hear about the “big lie” but what really is the big lie? Well, it might surprise you, but it started way back in the Garden of…

When Joseph Gantt was captured by North Korean forces in December of 1950, his wife went right on living as if Joseph were alive and would soon be home. Clara bought a home and hired a gardener, so that when Joseph came home he wouldn’t have to do yard work and could simply “go fishing…

Knowing God through His Word John Quincy Adams said: “I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once a year. My custom is to read four or five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to me…

Spiritual health When her 3-year-old son became ill, a woman decided to change her family’s lifestyle. She told a news outlet: “I started wondering why our food was making him sick. And then I started asking questions, reading all the ingredients on packets, and Googling anything that I didn’t understand.” Then she said something that…

Listening to the Angel Choir   In Luke 2:1–20 (NLT) we read, “At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2(This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. 4And because Joseph was…

Let us not waver.   “Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. Matt. 6:22 NLT Singleness of purpose, wholehearted devotion to God, is the condition pointed out by the Saviour’s words. Let the purpose be sincere and unwavering…

Last time we read about the story of the five kernels of corn and its history. Now we are going to focus on Psalm 103:3-5 to find the five kernels of thankfulness.  The Kernel of Forgiveness Verse 3a, “Who forgives all your iniquities,” Psalm 32:1-5 NCV “Happy is the person whose sins are forgiven, whose wrongs are…

Paul tells us in 1Thess. 5:18 “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” But this can be very challenging at times.  Corrie ten Boom tells when she was living in a German concentration camp, her entire body became infested with lice, making a bad situation worse. She was…

For most of her life, Mary McCarthy had a pain on the right side of her nose, she discovered why after a Covid-19 test made the pain much worse and prompted her a visit to the emergency room. What did they find? Well, they discovered she had a small plastic disc stuck in her nose…

David Cassidy was born in New York City in 1950. On January 2, 1969, David made his debut in the Broadway Musical ‘The Fig Leaves are Falling.’ It only lasted for four shows, but a casting director saw the show and asked him to make a screen test. He then moved to Los Angeles later…

Do you have that kind of inner resource? When life is under attack, do you have a fortress with inner provision that can withstand the siege? Between the two World Wars, the French built an 87-mile-long defensive wall called the Maginot Line—the great wall of France that defended its border with Germany. Three lines of…

Burt Hunter, a reporter-photographer in Long Beach, California, found himself on a strange mission one foggy morning. He was to interview and take pictures of a woman snake charmer. When Burt rang the doorbell at an impressive mansion, he was surprised at the beauty of the woman who answered. She didn’t look like a snake…

John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was strong and husky when he was a youth. He early determined to earn money and drove himself to the limit. At age 33, he earned his first million dollars. At age 43, he controlled the biggest company in the world. At age 53, he was the richest man on earth…

“Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the first commandment of all?”29 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is:‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with…

I need a Savior In Planet in Rebellion, George Vandeman wrote: “It was May 21, 1946. The place—Los Alamos. A young daring scientist was carrying out a necessary experiment in preparation for the atomic test to be conducted in the waters of the South Pacific atoll at Bikini. “He had successfully performed such an experiment…

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER During the War of 1812, while on the deck of a truce ship, Francis Key paced nervously as a fierce battle raged nearby during the British attack on the harbor of Baltimore. As District Attorney of Georgetown and a spiritual lay leader of his church, Key had been sent by President James…

The scenery was breathtaking, even beyond description. The air had such freshness, the greenery was so vibrant, and the sky was a brilliant blue. The water was crystal clear, and the woods were bright with light beaming through the leaves, and not only that it sounded like a bird sanctuary. Where is this place? Is…