Category: Pastor’s Notes
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Tender Love
As the father of four, no one has ever asked me why or if I love my children (and I’ll never admit to having wondered that myself). That parents will love their children is just assumed. But, some parents don’t. I read once of a woman who left her newborn child in an orange grove…
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Brand Ambassador or Christ’s Ambassador?
Is a pastor a brand ambassador? Christ calls every pastor to a specific work in a specific church. God calls him to minister to a local body, to serve as the shepherd to a definite membership roll. In the apostolic era, the name of your church simply matched its geographical location. We have letters to…
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White Elephant Worship
Have you ever bought a gift for someone and been disappointed by their reaction to it? You thought your gift would make a big impression, and instead, the person didn’t want such a gift at all! In fact, it might come back to you at next year’s white elephant party. I’d encourage you to think…
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The Christian Myth
“You are enough!” That’s a popular mantra among many Christians. However, the problem is that it does not come from the Bible and further demonstrates that Christians are operating with a non-biblical worldview. Why do Christians believe falsehoods like this one, and what should they believe? We could offer several reasons why Christians might believe…
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Lost in Thought
Only 6% of the American population has a Christian worldview. Christian sociologist and researcher George Barna disclosed this stark finding in a recent presentation. When concentrating on the church, the percentage rises to only 21%. Put another way, for every five evangelical Christians that walk into the church, four of them have not adopted a…
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Vaccinated Against Conscience
How can Christians maintain unity in light of debates over COVID mandates? Maybe you are on the side of the young woman who wrote, “there is no better way in our current climate to walk out the command to ‘consider others better than yourself’ than to receive the vaccine.” There are other Christians who share…
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“Woke” Anger
On the morning of January 11, 2017, a grieving mother stood in a crowded courtroom and said these words to her son’s murderer, “I forgive you.” The godly woman was Felicia Sanders. The murderer was Dylann Roof. On June 17, 2015, Roof went into Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC, and murdered nine parishioners in…
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Two Classes
It’s a sad reality that we have been and continue to be indoctrinated to think of humanity only in terms of skin color. Some would prefer I use the term “race” instead of skin color but it’s time to get rid of that word and the way we currently use it. The Scriptures teach us…
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Pray & Watch
“And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night” (Nehemiah 4:9). Nehemiah, as an unlikely character, sets the standard for the church’s response to adversity. I’ll explain why he was an unlikely character in just a second. First though, as he was leading the reconstruction of…
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