Pastor’s Thoughts

Holy Week celebrates some of the most dramatic liturgies of the entire Church year. It all begins this weekend, Palm Sunday. Jesus is welcomed by the crowds throwing branches as he triumphantly enters Jerusalem. Little do many know, He entered Jerusalem to die. His...

Pastor’s Thoughts

John 8:1-11 “The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle” (John 8:3). Why do they make her stand in the middle? Why not expose her on the periphery? The reason is something that affects us practically...

Pastor’s Thoughts

The Gospel this week is about the story of the prodigal son. I don’t know about you, but I used feel badly about the one brother who stayed home taking care of his aging father when the other son wandered off with his half of dad’s inheritance before dad even passed...

Pastor’s Thoughts

First, next week, on Tuesday March 25, Wednesday March 26, and Thursday March 27 we will be stripping and sealing our entire church floor. This has NOT been done this thoroughly for nearly 20 years. You are going to see a brightened appearance in the church and clean,...

Pastor’s Thoughts

The biblical event in this weekend’s Gospel is the celebration of the transfiguration of Jesus. After Jesus performs a series of miracles and foretells His own death, the disciples become worried that their Savior and leader would leave them. Left with this awful...

Pastor’s Thoughts

Lent is a season of conversion: We acknowledge the ways we have turned away from God in our lives, and focus on turning our hearts and minds back toward God. Hence the three traditional pillars of turning back are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These observances...