"You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street.  On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown in the footpath and there is an overturned van nearby.

Inside the van there is a strong smell of alcohol.  Both occupants - a man and a woman - are injured. You recognize the woman as the wife of your Chief of Police, who is at present out of town.

A passing motorist stops to offer you assistance and you realize that he is a man who is wanted for armed robbery.

Suddenly a man runs out of a nearby house, shouting that his wife is expecting a baby and that the shock of the explosion has made the birth imminent.

Another man is crying for help, having been blown into the adjacent canal by the explosion, and he cannot swim.

Describe in a few words what actions you would take.

The young man thought for a moment, picked up his pen and wrote, "I would take off my uniform and mingle with the crowd."

Pastor Dallas Henry

 

[This article appeared in an earlier edition of the Pastors Update]
2 Timothy 1:5 "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also."

The importance of the role of motherhood is being questioned these days.  Those whose voices are often given the most credibility in our society advocate the relinquishing of child-rearing to professionals.  Many of these so-called experts are calling for the suspension of parental rights.  Measures to this effect have been pushed through the United Nations and are being considered in the U.S. Congress.

But despite these things the importance of godly mothers is still clear.  When asked of the greatest need in France, Napoleon responded emphatically, "Mothers!"

We all know that Satan will do everything in his power to destroy the family.  Some may not know that we are to fight him every step of the way.  If we don't fight him, there won't be much of a state or a nation left for future generations.

We must ask ourselves if we are willing to settle for a place where the slaughter of millions of unborn children is accepted or a country that denies born again believer’s the right to a public display of faith.

Esther 4 

Charles Swindoll once told about a test that was conducted by a university where ten students were placed in a room. Three lines of varying length were drawn on a card. The students were told to raise their hands when the instructor pointed to the longest line. But nine of the students had been instructed beforehand to raise their hands when the instructor pointed to the second longest line. One student was the stooge. The usual reaction of the stooge was to put his hand up, look around, and realizing he was all alone, pull it back down. This happened 75% of the time, with students from grade school through high school. The researchers concluded that most would rather go along with the crowd, and be wrong yet safe, than to have the courage to risk standing alone on what they know to be right and true.

Jesus demonstrated the courage to stand on that first Good Friday.

This article appeared in a former Pastors Update

Jesus makes Christianity unique because He is both fully God and fully human.  He is unconventional.  He tells us who He is.  He came to die for us. He rose again.  It would be convenient if Jesus fit neatly into the kind of categories we construct for people and things so that we can be comfortable.  But He doesn’t and that is one of the things that makes Him unique.

Gender Identity Disorder or GID is a classified mental disorder in the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders from the American Psychiatric Association.  One can type in Gender Identity Disorder in any search engine on the internet and discover the information.  To make it simple, GID is the mental condition that causes men to act and dress like women and women to act and dress like men.

With GID being a mental disorder, it is breathtaking that the state of Maine has attempted to accommodate the disorder first by passing laws that favor it and more recently when they revealed they were giving serious consideration to changing the use of public bathrooms and also locker rooms in public schools.