4/14/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Once upon a time we were living in update New York, in a little town just outside Schroon Lake called North Hudson. We were caretakers for a 150-year-old stagecoach stop. It had 15 bedrooms, Read more…
4/7/21 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – At Christmas, Judy and I would always go with our family to my sister Susan’s house for a couple of days, to spend time with my parents, my siblings, and their kids. We could Read more…
3/31/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – The first Good Friday was the day Jesus was crucified. The crowd was made of many people who had previously been in contact with Jesus. Jesus had done so much for these people already. Read more…
3/24/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – I can remember when our children began to drive with their drivers permit. One of the common things that Judy and I would say to them was “Slow down!!” Yet I found it difficult Read more…
3/17/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – I think we could all agree that life can get messy at times. Judy and I have been to the Philippines on numerous occasions to teach at a small Bible College. I remember one Read more…
3/10/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – A friend told us about this diet that Judy and I have been on for the past two months. Between us, we have lost 57 lbs which is pretty exciting to us. It doesn’t Read more…
3/3/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Do you know anyone like this? People who might have “complained in the hearing of the Lord?” If you hang out with some Christians, that is exactly what you will hear. There is some Read more…
2/24/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Do you believe in love at first sight? Judy and I went to different high schools: she went to her local high school while my parents sent me to a Christian boarding school about Read more…
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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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 Read more…
Devotional for December 4th A new little tree will grow from its stump. From its roots a Branch will grow and produce fruit. At that time the man who is called the Root from Jesse’s family line will be like Read more…
Devotional for December 5th In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 PAUSE: In the beginning there was emptiness. But God had a great plan to create all things. He spent 6 days speaking all things Read more…
Devotional for December 6th So the Lord God drove the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he had been made out of. Genesis 3:23 PAUSE: God loved His children, Adam and Eve, very much. They Read more…
Devotional for December 7th Noah did everything the Lord commanded Him to do. Genesis 7:5 PAUSE: After the first sin, almost everyone in the world was living in disobedience to God. But there was one man who loved and obeyed Read more…
Devotional for December 8th Sarah became pregnant. She had a son by Abraham when he was old. He was born at the exact time God had promised him. Genesis 21:2 PAUSE: Time passed after the flood, and people were not Read more…
Devotional for December 9th Abraham answered. ‘God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering…’ Genesis 22:8 PAUSE: Abraham was a man who loved and trusted God. But did he trust God with his whole heart? God blessed Abraham. Read more…
Devotional for December 10th I am with you. I will watch over you everywhere you go. And I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Genesis Read more…