Pastor’s Heart

God Gave Them Up!

These are some of the saddest words in the Bible in my perspective. God giving anyone or anything up from Himself is a sad place to be indeed. The phrase is found in one of the most poignant declarations of God’s truth regarding justice and judgment in the Bible, Romans 1:18-32. It is about the…

Fatherless

Exodus 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. Psalm 82:3 — Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. James 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. This week we had a…

Renew Our Focus

If we are going to have success in any endeavor, we must be focused in our efforts. If a student is going to succeed in their studies, they must focus their attention on their studies to learn, understand, and recall the information and facts when they are called upon to utilize them. When a hunter…

God Works Through People

Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. John 1:1-3 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that…

Honoring the Lord

Psalm 103:1-2 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: The Hebrew word that is translated “bless” in these two verses, literally means to kneel yourself before another or to lift up another. It speaks of honoring…

“Decoration Day”

This is the original name for what we currently call Memorial Day. It began as an act of honor and recognition of the sacrifices made by those who gave their lives in the battles of the Civil War. It began by grateful American citizens who would decorate the graves of soldiers who gave their lives…

Memorials are for Remembering

The root of the word “memorial” is linked to the “memory,” therefore memorials remind us of something or someone by focusing our mind on what once was. It is the reminder of something or someone of or belonging to our past. It has to do with the record or memory of the past that we…

The Ministry of Motherhood

I heard this phrase on a radio program, “Focus on the Family, that I was listening to this week on KOLU 93.7FM. I loved that phrase because it is so true of motherhood; it is truly a ministry. Sadly, our society has been drifting from a mentality of service, but there is a bit of…