Dear HLPC family, This past Sunday we announced our effort to provide worship training for ages 4-7 during our Sunday morning worship. This worship training will use an excellent curriculum entitled “Teach Me to Worship.” If you would like more…
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.Psalm 16:11 Dear HLPC family, I read Psalm 16 this morning and verse 11 jumped out at me. It…
Dear HLPC family, The officers of HLPC met last night. As is our custom, the Elders and Deacons met together and then separated into our respective meetings–all the while social distancing, I will add. We all heard an encouraging report from…
Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. Dear HLPC family, In the earliest days of HLPC, the passage above was one…
Dear HLPC family, Yesterday I started teaching my class to seminary students in Medellin, Colombia. There are about 40 students in this class. Things went pretty well, I think. Teaching through zoom is hard and the added language barrier makes…
Dear HLPC family, Worship and ministry at our church remain a work in progress. We are all doing the best that we can under unique circumstances that we pray soon change and never return. We want to balance being appropriately…
Dear HLPC family, After a week away, it’s good to be “back in the saddle” (after a week in Wyoming, I had to use that phrase). Connie and I had a great time on our vacation to Yellowstone National Park. …
Dear HLPC family, Soon you will be receiving information about the need to nominate, train, and elect some new Deacons. The information will detail the qualifications for the office and the process we will seek to follow. Hindsight being what…
Dear HLPC family, Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! (Psalm 133:1). That verse came to mind as I sat down to write today’s Pastor’s Pen. Why is that? Sadly, COVID-19 has been a tool…
Dear HLPC family, I think in the days ahead the fallout from the lockdowns and social distancing will become more and more apparent- as if it hasn’t already. We are not meant to live in isolation. Sadly, some who live…
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his…
Dear HLPC family, One of the things I’m trying to do a better job of is being thankful each day. The Lord convicted me that I spend so much time asking for things and little time thanking Him and thus…