A 19-Year-Old Daughter with No Brakes on Her Car and the Psalm 23 Prayer

November 20, 2015 by

(The following is a true story from 2010.) BRAKES OUT The brakes were gone. How could this be? She’d just finished a 1,500-foot mountain grade descent. The “she” was my 19-year old daughter. And I am writing this today to glorify God and recognize His great faithfulness to us and in our lives. PSALM 23 […]

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What Might Your Pastor Say If Jesus Asked About You?

July 12, 2015 by

MEMORY HONORED To honor the memory of a member of our church long ago I shared an excerpt of my words from her funeral… It hasn’t been an easy week for any of us who’ve come to know and love June. But I’ve got good news in the midst of our sadness and heavy hearts. […]

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Always and Forever Faithful

May 23, 2015 by

Pastor Mike here. In the 1980s a terrorist blew up the Marine barracks in Beirut killing hundreds of Americans. Days after the bombing a severely wounded, corporal Jeffrey Lee Nashton, with so many tubes running in and out of his body making him look more like a machine than a man a witness described, motioned […]

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No Idea What’s Ahead (revisited)

December 13, 2012 by

We have no idea what’s ahead, but as long as we have the Lord, we’re gonna make it. My grandfather died on December 25th. Yes, that’s right. It was on a Christmas day in 1995 that “Gramps” passed from this life. And I had no idea the twists and turns my life and my wife, […]

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Great is Thy Faithfulness

August 20, 2010 by

The brakes were gone. How could this be? She’d just finished a 1,500-foot mountain grade descent. The “she” was my 19-year old daughter. And I am writing this today to glorify God and recognize His great faithfulness to us and in our lives. It was a little after five o’clock (approximately the time of the […]

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No Ministry Less Than Worthwhile

November 19, 2006 by

My brothers and sisters, this is now the second of three in a “Best of Pastor’s notes” series that I thought I might offer these last three Sundays of me being with you. The first was from the last century you might recall (January 10, 1999!). Today’s is from this one – April 21, 2002 […]

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