Category Archives: The Pastor’s Post

The Letter to the Philippians is written to a group of believers with whom Paul founded a church, during his second missionary journey in approximately AD 49. Philippi was a […]

I am known to say, “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans for the future.” I get this from where the Bible says, “We can make […]

I was doing my daily Bible reading the other day and came across Psalm 119:97, “Oh, how I love your instructions! I think about them all day long.” And I […]

Years ago, I was a church summer camp counselor, and I was terrible at it. I just really struggle with disciplining other people’s children. I’m fine correcting my own but […]

At the Passover Seder meal we know as the “Last Supper,” Jesus said an incredible and yet odd thing. In all the excitement of “this bread is my body,” “this […]

This past Sunday was Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost is significant in both the Old and New Testaments. The word “Pentecost” is actually the Greek name for a festival known in the […]

In Matthew 18, Jesus tells the parable of the lost sheep. Then in verse 21, Simon Peter has a question that I’m guessing many of us have asked before. “Then […]

Renée and I recently traveled down to Florida to visit my dad, stepmom, and her parents. On the way, we stopped in Charlottesville, VA, to see our son Jared and […]

Too many people today believe that as long as they are good – do more good things than bad during their lifetime – the scales will fall in their favor, […]

I don’t know if you have done so, but a few years ago I opened an ancestry.com account and patiently waited for my DNA results to come back. My ancestors […]