Pastor’s Blog

I am the road under your feet

In Sunday’s sermon, Pastor David quoted Helen Wodehouse, “So often, we think that the promise of God is, ‘At the end of the way you may find me.’ Not so. For God says, ‘I am the Way; I am the road under your feet, the road that begins just as low down as you happen to be. If you find yourself in a hole, the Way begins in the hole.” Listen to it again.


Responding to people with razor-sharp tongues

 
When someone offers “brutal honesty” in a way that disparages or demeans you…

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When they threatened to take away my son

“[Do] not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart” (Zechariah 7:10, ESV).

During worship at St. Paul Community yesterday, I shared a brief experience my family had in 1999. My youngest son, Garrett, and I traveled with some friends to Lakeside, Ohio for our conference’s annual meeting. Later that Sunday evening, I was notified that my wife, Cathy, was taken to a Central Ohio hospital with atrial fibrillation. My father and mother had also traveled to Lakeside for Annual Conference, so I asked Dad if I could borrow his car to return home to be by Cathy’s side.


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Can love and hate co-exist?

Recently, I was read in to a conversation between a husband and wife. During a gathering at the home of the wife’s father and mother, a few coarse words were spoken.

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What should we do about guns?

I have steered clear from the debate on gun control for most of my ministry career.  My reason for doing so lies with the ambivalent stance that the Scriptures have on the use of violence.  The Old Testament is filled with stories of Israel waging war against its enemies.  In many cases, God grants His people permission to engage in battle, if not to give them a direct command to take such action.


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