Category: The Pastor’s Pen

     (Exodus 20:15), “Thou shalt not steal.”      In looking at the Ten Commandments we learn the first four commandments protect our relationship to God; the fifth, sixth, and seventh commandments protect…

     (Matthew 6:16-18), ” Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I…

Yield – “to concede, to quit, to relent, to submit, to succumb, to surrender.” To yield means to commit something to the care and keeping of another and for believers to yield…

     (Exodus 20:8-11), “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy…

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of in pictures of silver. ” (Proverbs 25:11 Resiliency – “the ability to recover from failures, problems, and setbacks, and move forward.” Resiliency is a…

     (Hebrews 11:22), “By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.”      Someone once said: “To have faith…

     (John 5:39), “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”      The Bible is about Jesus. He is…

     (Exodus 20:16), “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”      The Hebrew law placed great stress on telling the truth, especially in criminal cases.  In fact, in (Deuteronomy 19:16-23),…

     (John 21:25), “ And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not…

Benevolence – “the disposition to do good and give to others basic needs to promote their happiness without having personal reward as my motive.” The love of benevolence is the quality of…