Pastor’s Posts
A CERTAIN KIND OF COMMUNITY
“Who needs the church?” we think. “It’s me and Jesus now.” “My faith’s something private. Them? Holier than thou.” “Too many hypocrites!” (“Oh, I’m not one,” I moan.) “I’ll go when I want to. I’ll do this on my own.” Privacy reigns supreme in western culture, now. “To be isolated? It’s much ‘simpler’ and…
Sonrise!!
Into the cold dark room he walked, Eerie. Quiet. The silence stalked. Musty dank smells, ground, and wet rock, Covered with grief, and still in shock. Eyes, filled with tears, so bleary-eyed. ‘Twas up all night, his dear friend died. To pay respects, sat down in grief, His joy now gone, death was the…
Oh, Conscience!
What mayhem we will see when conscience is broken, “Do ‘right’ in your own eyes.” This mantra, now spoken. No restraining presence, like no brakes on a car, Plummeting down the hill, “It’s a thrill ride for all”??? A broken conscience, bad, but another step worse, When conscience becomes blind, we’ll live under that…
FEELINGS
“If I don’t feel something, it really isn’t real.” Oh, fickle feelings, me, a slave to what I feel? Feelings can come and go, like offshore winds at sea. Feelings are wind gauges of what’s inside of me. My feelings can be fed by my thoughts, words, and deeds! New feelings can be built…
“Oh, Conscience!!!”
What mayhem we will see when conscience is broken, “Do ’right’ in your own eyes.” This mantra, now spoken. No restraining presence, like no brakes on a car, Plummeting down the hill, “It’s a thrill ride for all”??? A broken conscience, bad, but another step worse, When conscience becomes blind, we’ll live under that…
PROTECTED? HOW?
Life in a fallen world. Things don’t work like they “should.” That is certainly true. Oh, don’t you wish they would? Sometimes its winter storms, sometimes wretched sickness, Sometimes human badness, sometimes man’s stubbornness. How does God protect us? Not from every trouble. (Sure I’ve been protected, but life’s not a bubble). But…