The Pastor's Perspective

       "Imagine you're on a road trip, and suddenly, the weather turns. What started as a gentle drizzle escalates into a torrential downpour. Visibility plummets, the wind howls, and you're gripping the steering wheel, knuckles white. Your kids who were once talking, playing and at times fighting, are now quite. You've driven in rain before, but this feels different, overwhelming. That feeling of being tossed about, of being at the mercy of forces beyond your control? That’s a taste of what the disciples experienced on the Sea of Galilee one day. It’s also a feeling many of us know well, when life’s unexpected storms hit, and we find ourselves wondering if we’ll make it through. We’re all familiar with the feeling of fear and anxiety when life throws us a curve ball." "Let's dive into Mark 4:35-41. On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as...

  Go down the cereal isle this week and you will find several different boxes of cereal that look similar. The color scheme is similar, the nutritional information is similar, and the overall taste many times is similar.  Sometimes the generic brands are just as good and there is little to no diffrence to the taste. (Except for Oreo's! I don't know what they put in those cookies to make them taste the way they do, but the generic chocolate sandwich cookies just are not the same. But I digress.) You see for the most part there is very little diffrence between the cereals except one might say "Honey Nut Cheerios" and the other might say "Honey Nut Scooters".  That's because one of the cereal's is name brand and the other is generic.      Now the generic brands tend to design their product after the name brand product they are mimicking. They are trying to entice you to try there product that they are claiming is just as good as the other only its not a...

    There was this atheist professor who had quite a reputation around campus for challenging new students who seemed to be religious. He often relished the idea of challenging there faith and making them look foolish around their peers.       Well it was the first day of the fall semester and a brand new group of freshmen had arrived. One of these new freshmen just so happened to sit in the very front row of this professors class room and He unashamedly had his bible sitting in front of him on his desk.        As class began the professor gleefully smiled at the young man like a cat ready to pounce on its prey. The professor towered over the student as he asked this young man if he believed in a God.       The boy, a bit taken back, responded with a simple "Yes sir I do". The way the young man spoke the professor could tell he had grown up in a rural area and the professor thought that this would be far easier t...