by Jim Simons | Aug 3, 2020 | A Pastor's Heart
Our lives have odd changes and adjustments in this time. A friend of the family postponed her wedding several months, having hoped an indoor wedding would become more feasible. Debi is making the food for it and having to mask up as if for surgery. Guests will sit...
by Karl Peterson | Jul 7, 2020 | A Pastor's Heart
There are many methods we can use to share the gospel with our friends and neighbors. Paul the apostle writes about an unusual tool he employed when he spoke to unbelievers about Christ: jealousy. In Romans 9-11, Paul speaks of his love for the Hebrew people. In...
by Jim Simons | May 4, 2020 | A Pastor's Heart
This a strange time and we don’t know what we’re dealing with. We only partially understand COVID-19. It’s like a much worse version of the flu. What will the shutdowns do to our prosperity? We’re reminded of the Spanish Flu pandemic over...
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 | Oct 27, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
It was a ruined world, that ancient place where Abraham lived. Harsh, perverse, power-hungry, violent, and rebellious. The Lord’s universal verdict put it pretty plainly: “The intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Gen 8:21). It couldn’t have been more...
