Pastor’s Blog

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

12/2/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog We all have a story to tell. Consider these two stories today. The year was 1976… …and this young man had his life all planned out. Three years earlier he had married this beautiful woman, his father owned the family business that he knew one Read more

11/25/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Judy and I are currently watching a series on Hulu entitled The Murdoch Mysteries. It is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on January 20, 2008. It is based on a fictional character, William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in Read more

11/18/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – How is your week going? Someone once said, ‘You are either in a trial, just coming out of a trial, or God is preparing you to go through a trial.’ I saw this quote in a post on Facebook just last week: “We are Read more