Letter from the Pastor

              The other day a father of several children remarked:  “Christmas used to come as a     complete surprise to me every year.”                “What do you mean?”               “I mean that I was never ready for Christmas financially.  I guess I knew it was coming, but I never saved anything up so that it didn’t wipe me out financially.”                “It’s not a surprise anymore.”              “Several years ago, I learned to set aside enough each month so that when Christmas came I was ready.”              What that father was […]

It certainly seems that the world today is once again in desperate need of a spiritual awakening.  It is the only hope for the survival of the human race!  In the midst of the vast problems which face our world Christians are strangely silent and powerless, almost overwhelmed by the tide of secularism.  And yet, Christians are called to be the “salt of the earth”, keeping a decaying society from further corruption.  Christians are to be the “light of the world”, illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.  We are […]

If we were to believe the statistical charts and reports so commonly quoted these days, a   single conclusion is inescapable:  we, the disciples of Jesus, are not winning the world, we are losing it!  That is, of course, if we are to believe those statistical charts, because quite frankly, figures can be quoted, twisted, used, or misused, as we have seen in recent months, to prove virtually anything.  It is never easy to know just how reliable or accurate any particular survey is, at least not until we know the background and bias of the agency or individual responsible for […]