The Pastor's Perspective

    Problems, difficulties,  and hardships I don't know about you but I have had my fair share of them. Maybe this week you, yourself have had to deal with certain things that have just seemed overwhelming. Perhaps you have had a car wreck and you are now trying to fight with the insurance to give you the money you need to purchase another vehicle. Maybe your recovering from a surgery or you received word that someone in your family is very sick and is in the hospital. Maybe you are reeling from the loss of a loved one and the grief you have is overwhelming.      I want you to know that your not alone.  Problems in life are nothing new, we all go through them from time to time. This is true for both the good and the bad, the saved and the unsaved. Problems and difficulties in life are impartial, they come to us all.      Now while that is true there is a diffrence for the believer in Christ and those who have yet to put there faith in Je...

    When I look at the history of the Israelite people found in the bible. I see similarities to my own life as well as to America. By that I am not saying that just like Israel is God's chosen people, and so are Americans. I am not saying that at all. What I am saying is that there are something we see in the nation of Israel that I think we have seen and are seeing in our nation as well. Let me explain.      First off Israel was a nation that was divided up by 12 different tribes. In the same way the United States of America is divided up by 50 individual states. Much like America Israel is filled with examples of times when the nation as a whole was fighting among themselves. There were times that these infightings resulted in divisions between people, families and tribes. There are even times when the nation of Israel, much like America once was, was split and separated from one another.  Israel became two diffrent nations, the nation of Judah and the n...