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 and rocks, […]

          In 2015, at the Synod on the Family, Rick Warren summarized the present condition of our 21st century this way:           “In today’s society, materialism is idolized; immorality is glamorized; truth is minimized; sin is normalized; divorce is rationalized; abortion is legalized. In T.V. and movies, crime is legitimized; drug use is minimized; comedy is vulgarized; and sex is trivialized. Again, in movies, the Bible is fictionalized; churches are satirized; God is marginalized; and Christians are demonized. The elderly are dehumanized; the sick are euthanized; the poor are victimized; the mentally […]

              It is a commonly known fact that people in the ancient world believed there were many gods.  In early biblical history, each nation was thought to have its own god, whom they worshipped and upon whom they depended for the necessities of life.                This ancient theology is generally thought to be obsolete.  In our modern, more enlightened age, we now believe in only one God, who is creator and sustainer of all things.  But whether or not that conclusion is true depends upon how we are using the word, God.  If we […]

            If you were asked to sum up your life to this moment in one brief statement of twenty-five words or less, how would you do it?  What would you say?              Think about that for a moment.  You have been living now for fifteen years, fifty years, or however long it’s been.  Those years have contained a combination of good and bad, success and failure, fulfillment and disappointment.  Now you want to summarize them in one brief statement.  How would you go about doing that?         […]