Pastor Tom's Community

Happy Mother’s Day Photo by Sidney Pearce on Unsplash I recorded a 25 minute sermon from the notes below, but … somehow, there was no sound. It was silent. I replaced it with a shorter version. Here is the text of the sermon I first recorded — Rough Notes. Mother’s Day, not Mothers’ Day is an American tradition started by…

Story and History – Reflections on the Introduction to Psalm 78 Psalm 78 Myth, Mystery, Meaning. Even factual matters can be mythological if we find their meaning. It was clearly a psalm of Asaph even though I said, “David.” Story or History? Myth or Events? Meaning in the Moments? Where is God & What Is…

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Dou_Old_woman_in_prayer.jpg If My People  I exhort, therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men. – I Timothy 2:1   I am as put off as any by the empty words, “thoughts and prayers” whenever those words are empty and used to dismiss one’s own responsibility to act…

"Ask and it will be given you." (Matthew 7:7a, NKJV) At the risk of seeming obvious, have you asked God for anything lately? Have you with some heart for a pure motive and unselfish desire asked for Him to supply your needs, lead you according to His purposes, given you strength and wisdom to become…

Photo by Patrice Bouchard on Unsplash   There was a little blue jay lying lifeless on the ground when I went out to feed my chickens this morning. While I could not tell him apart from the other jays that I feed and enjoy watching, I was reminded that my Heavenly Father knew him personally. …

One of the great words in scripture is "Nevertheless." ——————————– "Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity." "Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his…

"The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.'” First, this verse is not really or primarily about atheism, because it is not about an intellectual conviction or doubt. It is an assessment of a heart inclination that knows one thing and behaves in an oppositional manner toward truth. There are many theists who…

EC Publications; web source: http://www.madcoversite.com/mad030.html – Fair Use …  Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. – Matthew 6:28  Someone has said that weeds are flowers we…