by Josh Waltz | Nov 24, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
How a story begins shapes everything that follows. Consider A Christmas Carol: “Marley was dead, to begin with.” What better way for Charles Dickens to set the mood, shape readers’ expectations, and foreshadow the themes of his ghostly tale than with that eerie...
by Josh Waltz | Nov 17, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
Next Sunday, November 24, we will celebrate our annual Thanksgiving Dinner together, and I want to encourage ALL of you to join us. Songs of praise, testimonies of thankfulness, and a bit of food (or maybe a lot?!) promise an evening of delight for body and soul!...
by Josh Waltz | Nov 10, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
John Newton had a practice of writing a hymn to go along with the text for his Sunday morning sermon. (…which, by the way, is how he came to write “Amazing Grace”—not at the moment of his conversion on the deck of his storm-tossed ship, as the inspiring legend goes,...
by Josh Waltz | Nov 3, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
One of the responsibilities of pastors is to guard the flock against wolves. Paul brings up this issue in his address to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20—a topic we pondered a bit when we covered that passage in our current sermon series. The point isn’t unique to this...
by Karl Peterson | Nov 2, 2019 | Notifications
“And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” 2 Tim 2:2 Join with the rest of PHBF for Team Preaching on the Beatitudes, Sunday, November 3rd from 6 – 8 p.m. Blessed are...
