Pastor’s Pen

As the first Adam’s sweat surrounds my face, May the last Adam’s blood my soul embrace. Famous for his lines “No man is an island” and “For whom does the bell toll?”, John Donne wrote the lines above in his…

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. I Cor. 12:27 This verse comes in a section of I Corinthians wherein the Apostle Paul exhorts Christians to recognize that they are part of a body- the…

This week, Tuesday through Friday, the PCA’s General Assembly is gathering in Greenville, SC. This is the annual meeting of our denomination’s highest “court”. Historic Presbyterian Church government uses such language because we believe that the church is to have…

An excerpt from Charles Spurgeon’s Morning by Morning * that gave me much encouragement and I wanted to share: “We love because he first loved us.” (I John 4:19) There is no light but that which proceeds from the sun;…

They say knowledge is power. Many in our culture advance the idea that education is THE key for success and a meaningful life. But in 1 Corinthians Paul tells us that “knowledge puffs up.” It’s good for feeding the ego…

I’ll date myself here, but I remember well a 1978 movie entitled, Capricorn One. It was based on a theory that had been floating around for some time that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax perpetrated by the U.S.…

Let me encourage you to take full advantage of the opportunities for encouragement, reflection, and worship during Easter week at HLPC! We’ll begin the week this Sunday with remembering Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on what we have come to…

This week I heard Nina Shea interviewed on the radio about a book that she has helped author entitled Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians that has been published by Thomas Nelson. I was so taken with her radio interview…

The one who would glorify his God must be prepared to meet with many trials.

Our military community and many in our church family are watching the events in our nation’s capital with intense interest this week. We anticipate the potential for sequestration and the subsequent furloughs that could come to RAFB employees and the…