2/17/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – My two youngest children grew up on Veggie Tales, and I must admit that I grew to like some of those characters too. Before you become too pious, I would guess that if you have children the age of mine, you know a bit Read more…
2/10/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Sanctification is a fancy theological word for “The Process.” It is the process that God uses to take a forgiven sinner and transform them into the image of Christ. Paul describes the process like this… And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Read more…
2/3/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – I was in the 6th grade when our grammar school, for the first time ever, had a basketball team. I wanted nothing more than to be on that team. Now we did not have a gym to play in, so we had to practice Read more…
1/27/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – For Judy and me it was July 2000. We were leaving our home on Canandaigua Lake and leaving our home church who had stood with us during a very difficult time in our life. Our two youngest children were leaving a youth group and Read more…
1/20/21 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Joe Stowell said… “We are what we are, not because of dreams we have, but because of choices that we make.” In his book Satisfaction: Investing in What is Important to God, Joe Aldrich portrays the well known and successful author Ernest Hemingway like Read more…
1/13/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – In 1971… John Lennon wrote a song titled “Imagine.” It would become his best-selling single of his solo career. His lyrics encouraged the listener to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality and to Read more…
1/6/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Change is inevitable. The world is full of change. On Monday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi changed the rules: in an effort to be inclusive to those who don’t identify as a specific gender, her new rule strips all mention of gender-specific pronouns and terms Read more…
12/23/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – History is crowded with men who would be gods: Egyptian Pharaohs Roman Emperors Dalai Lamas Homer Buddha Alexander the Great Tutankhamun Wallace Fard Muhammad Napoleon Bonaparte Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Taher Saifuddin Adolph Hitler Vladimir Lenin Mao Tse Tung Sun Myung Moon But there was Read more…
12/16/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Over the past 18 years I have had the honor of being the chaplain for our local police department. Over those years Judy and I have had officers and their families in our home, we have celebrated Christmas together, we have had cookouts as Read more…
12/9/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – I remember being in the 6th grade as if it were yesterday. I remember Carl Bowen. He had red hair. He was bigger than I was and he was in the 8th grade. Carl Bowen had ‘robbed my joy.’ Carl was a bully, and Read more…