Pastor’s Weekly Letter

               A study of the history of war offers little encouragement to a world that is hungry for peace.  In ancient times wars were fought on a small scale between village and village.  Then it became tribe against tribe and province against province.  Later the combatants were nations, then coalitions of nations.  Until today it seems that virtually one half of the world is lined up against the other half.                  A similar development can be traced in the weapons that are used to wage war.  At first people fought each other with clubs […]

               Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, and we begin the season of Lent.  It is a time for all of us to stop and to reflect and remember   Do you remember those days when you dreamed beautiful dreams?  You were thinking about the wonderful life that was waiting for your over there in the future.  Dreaming is a vital part of living.  Think how impoverished our world would be without dreamers.  Every great human accomplishment is nothing more than a dream come true.  The electric light was once a dream in the mind of Thomas […]

           Time Magazine a few years ago carried an article of the latter years of billionaire Howard Hughes.  If the story is to be believed, it is one of the most tragic ever told.  It tells a story of 15 years of seclusion, loneliness, boredom, and drug addiction.  For most of that time, his only entertainment was watching old movies on his private screen.  His primary food was chicken soup, and his only associates were people who were paid to be with him.  He neglected his appearance until his hair and beard reached to his waist, […]

          Do you remember, from your childhood days, the neighborhood football game when everyone wanted to play quarterback?  Sometimes you’d stand around and argue and take forever getting started. Usually the way it was resolved was that the one who owned the ball got to call the plays. But finally, everyone had to agree to play a different position, otherwise you could not even have a game.           Then, if you stayed with the sport and gave yourself a little time to grow up, you discovered that it can be just as […]

          One of the marks of a learned person is that he knows he doesn’t know very much.  Isaac Newton was that kind of a person.  He was one of the major scientific minds of the last 300 years, and yet he once described himself as a small child on the seashore, picking up a few pebbles, all the while surrounded by a vast ocean of the unknown.  Albert Einstein was like that, also.  In our modern world, his name is a symbol of genius; and yet he said, “The most beautiful thing we can experience […]