November 01, 2019

NOW

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2 Corinthians 6:1-2 As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. 2 For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.

As we enter the month of November we also enter into that part of the church year which we refer to as the Season of End Time. During the last four Sundays of the church year we focus on events that teach us about the end of the world, judgment, heaven, and hell. We are reminded that there will be a day when God will bring all things to an end in this world, and what is temporal will be no more. But what is eternal will last forever and ever. At those times in life when we find ourselves standing next to the hospital bed of a dying person...

October 01, 2019

“Thanks for Nothing!”

Well, Fall is officially here. And that means that the harvest is right around the corner. The beans are starting to change color. But with the late start in planting, the corn could use a few more weeks of growth before the harvest. Lord willing the first frost will hold off a little longer. Then the harvest will be bountiful and the income wonderful! Then we would have good reason to offer heartfelt thanks to God! But… what if the frost comes sooner? What if the harvest is small? What if hail came or a tornado and destroyed the crop? What if we yield nothing? We would still have reason to thank God...

September 01, 2019

ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

1 Corinthians 7:29-31 What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; 30 those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; 31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

Where did the summer go? Wow, how time flies! The older I get the faster the days seem to pass by. Did you ever find yourself saying things like this? We all have, maybe even in the past few weeks or days. Time does fly by, and as the old adage goes, time waits for no one. It sometimes almost seems cruel that it passes by so quickly that we don’t have enough time to enjoy the things we’d like to or even have enough time to accomplish everything we wish we could...