Posts by Pastor David (Page 2)

Imagine a roadblock the size of the Empire State Building! That is the kind of proportions we are talking about when the Ever Given cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal on March 23rd. This blockage affected the entire world and held up billions of dollars in goods by almost a week.  The Ever Given blocked shipments for the entire world, but have you ever had something create a barrier in your friendship? Maybe it wasn’t the size of the Empire…

In the last 12 months, the interest in becoming a prepper, which means being ready for any disaster, has skyrocketed! I know most of us wished we would have had a month’s supply of toilet paper when the stores sold out a few months back, but preppers were ready and had a stockpile. Preppers do not know when or even if something will change their status quo, but, they are ready in the event it happens. Esther was a young…

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6:19–21) As you close out this Christmas week, you are already thinking about the next event on your calendar, New Years! December 31…

How do you make the right decision when there are difficult consequences either way? Daniel was a young man that lived in Israel roughly 2,600 years ago. Daniel was faced with this exact dilemma after being captured and deported from his homeland by a foreign government. Daniel was just a teenager when he was put through the test of his faith, but we see in the first chapter of the book that he wrote, he gives us one key as…

The human mind is still a marvel to the scientific community today. Scientists cannot replicate it, though they have tried with Artificial Intelligence, yet they use their mind to try and learn more about the intricacies of what allows humans to reason and think. We know that great good can be accomplished using our minds such as when Frank Shankwitz, Linda Bergendahl-Pauling, and Scott Stahl created the Make-A-Wish Foundation for terminally ill children in 1980. On the contrary, we know…

How can you help fix the wrongs in our world? How can you make a difference?  We have so many feelings whirling around in our hearts right now. We want to do something to stop the injustices in our society, but we need to keep in mind what the Bible says… Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. – 1 John 4:7 Love is…