Pastors Desk (Page 6)

In the Letters to the Churches, Jesus gives some beautiful descriptions of heaven and what God has planned for all of eternity for those who remain true to their faith. The mysteries of heaven gives us a lot to ponder and speculate about – but always knowing that “no eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor mind conceived what God hath prepared for those who love Him” For the Church at Philadelphia, Jesus blesses them for their hard work…

Jesus speaks the longest to the Church at Thyatira. He gives them many compliments but then gives them a deep warning about how their mixing of false teaching and immoral living is about to destroy many of them. They faced many pressures to conform to the pagan society around them. They were tempted to accept the standards of the world instead of holding to the call of Jesus to take up their cross and follow Him. Come and join us…

This Sunday, we will be hearing Jesus words to the Church at Pergamum and his commendation for how the church had endured the continuing persecution while holding on to their faith. We will hear of another Martyr, Antipas who was brutally put to death in the City, and through his death helped others to stay strong. But, Jesus also had some criticism of the church as they were being called to repent from being drawn away by the false teaching…

On Sunday we will continue our study of the Seven Churches in the Book of Revelation. The Church for this week is Smyrna, and it was a place of some pretty intensive persecution. Christians who would not deny Christ were Beaten, Burned to death, Fed to the Lions and other kinds of torture. Come and hear the story of Polycarp – and more important, be challenged by the letter to the Church at Sardis to be faithful to Christ no…

Sunday will be the third Sunday in our series from the Book of Revelation. For each of the next seven Sundays, we will be reading about one of the Seven Churches to which God sent a message to the Churches through the Angel and John. The First Church we will study is the Church at Ephesus. This is a church that had many things going for it yet had lost out on the most important things and were being called…

The Book of Revelation is a great and amazing Vision that God sent to John while he was banished to the island of Patmos. Its message was written specifically to the seven churces which were located inland from the Island of Patmos where John was being held as a Roman prisoner. On Sunday, we are going to enter into this great Prophetic Vision to see what God said to the Churches in the 1st Century and even more importantly, look…

I am sitting at my desk this morning and thinking about three very special people who have passed into heaven in the past two weeks: Paul Roush, Marietta Raker, and Rosie Roush. Each one of them loved the Lord deeply and had a great faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. They are so precious to many of us and even more so to the God who has prepared a place for them in heaven. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear…

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Musical yesterday. Thank you to all of you who worked so hard to prepare. It was really neat. I especially liked the song about Faith taking us so much further than our feelings.