Pastor’s Blog

Do you love Jesus? “If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed.” I Corinthians 16:22  At first glance this seems pretty harsh coming from the Apostle Paul. Doesn’t God love everyone? The answer     to that is yes and no. There is a sense in which God loves everyone in the whole… Read More »

All for one and one for all! “If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” -1 Corinthians 12:26  When you made Jesus Christ Lord, and Savior of your life,  you joined the family of God and every believer is your brother or sister in Christ. Your local body,… Read More »

None Like God! Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! Romans 11:33 Have you ever been overcome with just a sudden awareness of who God really is? Paul felt that way immediately after writing to the Romans about the mercy… Read More »

Christ and Him Crucified! “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” I Corinthians 2:2 As a pastor, I learned very quickly that shepherding a church is impossible to do if God has not called you to serve His people. As a Christian you know it is impossible to… Read More »

Pointless! Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no   longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. Ephesians 4:17 Paul spent the first three chapters in Ephesians focusing on the Gospel and what God has done through His Son Jesus Christ. He reminds the believers in… Read More »

Don’t Stumble! “You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. Galatians” 5:7-8  Paul is perplexed that those that he had shepherded were being turned from the true Gospel. Paul is reminding them through the metaphor of running that they had received the Gospel… Read More »

Bear Fruit Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. Romans 7:4 When we came to Christ we were freed from the bondage… Read More »

You might have heard people say “May the Lord give you the desires of your heart”. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what I say when I write in a birthday card, or when I send a text to someone on their birthday. If I  ask you what is the desire of your… Read More »

Wretched ! Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Romans 7:24-25 Every Christian can echo Paul’s words,… Read More »