Letter from the Pastor

          It is a fact that we can never really know where we are unless we have an awareness of where we have been. It is foolish to try to go back and live in the past. But it is an act of wisdom to remember it, reflect on it, and learn from it.            Any accurate inventory of the past will include some happy memories.  We should hold on to those and carry them with us from one year to the next. Then when the road gets difficult, as surely it will, we can take out one of those […]

         A little more than 50 years ago Dale Carnegie wrote a book that made him a very wealthy man. The tile of it is “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” It has since been published in every major language of the world and has sold multiplied millions of copies. The popularity of the book lies in the fact that it recognizes and deals with a very real human need – that is the necessity to relate to other people.         Of course, Dale Carnegie was not the first to recognize that need.  […]

          It is a commonly known fact that people in the ancient world believed there were many gods.  In the early biblical history, each nation was thought to have its own god, whom they worshipped and upon whom they depended for the necessities of life.             This ancient theology is generally thought to be obsolete.  In our modern, more enlightened age, we now believe in only one God, who is creator and sustainer of all things.  But whether or not that conclusion is true depends upon how we are using the word, God.  If we are speaking of our theological […]

                        In 1806 William Wordsworth looked at his own life and the lives of his contemporaries and wrote these lines of poetry: “The world is too much with us; late                                              and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”                         If that was an accurate description of life in the early part of the nineteenth […]

                 Someone has said that one effective way to measure the size of a person is by observing the size of  the things that make him or her mad. A good question to ask ourselves is: “What makes us angry?”  Think about the things that made you mad this past week. What were they? A car that cut into your lane? A rude clerk in a department store?  Having to stand in line a little longer than you thought  necessary? A phone call that interrupted your evening meal; and that from someone trying […]