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I grew up in a time and in a culture where swearing was discouraged.  Kids understood that they would have to wash their mouths out with soap if parents overheard them.  This didn’t mean that people didn’t let loose once in a while with foul language, but usually it was something that directly followed some… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 19, 2025

I was having a conversation recently with someone who was going through a rough patch, and in the course of the discussion, that person mentioned the name of another person who had helped them during their difficulty.  The name that was mentioned stood out to me, because I had helped that person out a few… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 12, 2025

I enjoy being in shape and, frankly, I need to be in shape if I am to perform my duties as a volunteer firefighter.  But that doesn’t mean that I am actually in shape – at least not where I should be.  If I’m being brutally honest, I could stand to drop twenty pounds and… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective June 5, 2025

There are certain places in the Bible where simple observations are made about mankind.  These observations don’t represent prohibitions but rather suggest that there are certain conditions in which the human experience is simply better.  One of the first of these observations occurs in the Garden of Eden, when God says “It is not good… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective May 29, 2025

Have you ever thought about when you were at your best over the course of your life?  It is definitely a subjective question, revolving around your concept of what best means.  For some people, particularly if they are facing various degrees of physical degradation, may think back to their mid-twenties, when their bodies were strong… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective May 22, 2025

As a pastor who preaches and teaches the Bible, I have to be very careful when it comes to the definitions of words found within Scripture.  One of the challenges is that our understanding of what words mean can evolve, which is one reason why modern translators will occasionally need to update the phrasing of… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective May 15, 2025

On occasion, I will look up recipes online in the quest to find something new to fix for dinner.  It is like having all the cook books you could ever need at your fingertips, searched immediately according to your desired parameters.  The one big difference from the traditional cook book approach, however, is the opportunity… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective May 8, 2025

Life on a small, bridgeless island is not without challenges.  We do have some stores, and some services, but what we have available to us here is extremely limited, particularly when compared to the mainland.  When there is prior notice that we will need something that we don’t have available to us on the island,… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective May 1, 2025

There are certain career fields where you can engage in your work, very confident of the outcome.  Chemists, working in the confines of sterile surroundings, working with pure chemical compounds, can be very confident of what they will create when they combine certain compounds in certain volumes in certain orders.  The same can be said… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective April 24, 2025

This Sunday, perhaps billions of Christians around the world will be in church to celebrate Easter, commemorating the day that Jesus walked out of the tomb.  It is the holiest of days on the Christian calendar, celebrating Jesus’ triumph over the grave, signifying God’s approval of the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross to… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective April 17, 2025