Ministry of the Word
Category for posts offering reflections and comments on important Bible passages and how a Christian perspective informs a person’s view of current events.
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Intro: Back in March rumbling began about a major scandal in college admissions. As it seems, famous families would pay a college admissions company to “prepare” their children to be admitted to the “right” college that fit the family’s appearance in society. While nothing was ever said to be certain, the families understood they
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/28/19 Intro: A website called Smart Insights published an article on their website offering some revealing stats. They listed the world’s population as 7.676 billion. Of that population there are 5.112 billion unique mobile phone users or 67% of the worldwide population. 4.388 billion unique users of the internet can be detected or
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/21/19 Intro: Last Monday as the world watched, one of the most renown landmarks in Paris, France burned. For 12 hours the lead story and continuing coverage on news outlets focused on the inferno at Notre Dame. The roof was destroyed as well as the spire Before any formal investigations into the cause
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/19/19 Intro: A number of years ago, after the passing of one of the members of the church I served in Enoree, a deacon came to my office to talk. He came because he was concerned about the 90+ year old husband of that deceased member. That husband had come to church faithfully
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/14/19 Intro: When I was in one of the later grades in elementary school, I remember the teachers sending home assignments to read a passage and then write a one sentence summary of the passage. Their goal was to help us to summarize the contents and put down only the main idea of
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/07/19 Intro: Born to immigrant German parents, in 1844 a young boy named Henry began to sell vegetables from the family garden to neighbors. The oldest of eight in this devout Lutheran family, Henry was educated at a Lutheran school. That said the most important lessons he learned were at home. His mother
Let the Shepherd Lead 