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Luke 5:27-32 As believers we have a mission to evangelize the world. In Luke 5 we look at the way our Lord Jesus created open doors, and then took the opportunities to present the good news to the people around Him.

We live at a time when developing a healthy body is big business. Diets abound. We have all seen the ads that tell us how to lose the pounds in just weeks. Exercise equipment of some form is a staple in most homes. Television shoes encourage fitness. On a nice day you will see people walking, bicycling…

Balance is an important part of life. Let me give you some examples of what I mean, It’s good to be concerned about your weight but you go too far and become anorexic or bulimic. What started out as a way to be more healthy actually makes you sick. It is good to eat all kinds of different things, however…

We all know what it is like to come home from vacation or a long business trip. There is something comforting about familiar surroundings. We love being able to sit in our own chair surrounded by people who know us and love us. Think for a minute about the life of Jesus. He was constantly going from…

It seems like most people are working longer hours and it feels like at least every other person feels they are about to explode from the pressure of their job. Some statistics say that in the average household the husband and wife work better than 90 hours a week (in some households that would be an…

By Pastor Glenn Pease As I read Barbara Shields book Winners-Women And The Nobel Prize, I was so impressed by the life and leadership of Agnes Gunxha, better known as Mother Teresa. As I read of her life and ministry I kept seeing her fulfilling the requirements that Paul lays down for one to be an elder,…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Almost everybody you know in the Bible became a grandparent. But since the term is not used in the Bible we tend to ignore this fact and seldom think of people as grandparents, and of children as grandchildren. When I read the blessing at the end of Psa. 128 that says may you live…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A new bride was showing a visiting friend her first garden she had ever planted. The friend notice several small green clusters at one end of the garden and asked what they were. The bride said proudly, "They are radishes." "Really," said the visitor, "most people plant them in…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Christians have always had mixed feelings about pleasure. They know God made us to enjoy many pleasures of life, and yet there are also the forbidden pleasures. These are often just extremes of what is acceptable. Sex is good, but immorality is bad. Food is good, but gluttony is…

Intro – A college age daughter was home from school complaining about her car’s gas mileage. Dad asked what it was and she replied, “I’m not sure.” Dad replied, “Well, all you have to do is check the odometer when the tank is full, check it again on empty, then divide the number of gallons it took to…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A truck had run off the road and crashed into a tree forcing the engine back into the cab. The driver was trapped in the twisted wreckage. The doors were crushed and bent out of shape, and he had his feet caught between the clutch and the brake pedal. To make matters worse, a fire…

Intro – Read Luke 2:39-52 – Lu 2:39 is a transitional verse taking us forward from the birth of Jesus. He tells us in Lu1:2 that he had interviewed eyewitnesses – one of whom had to be Mary herself. Luke has information that could have come from no other source. Don’t you wish you could have been a fly…

By Pastor Glenn Pease One of the things that made Lincoln so great was his marvelous self-control. The nation was coming apart at the seams with a civil war that had everybody's emotions operating at extremes. To add to the tension, some army contractors were ripping off the government. This made Lincoln…

By Pastor Glenn Pease James Thurber tells the fable of the bear that use to go on a spree of drunkenness, and come home at night and break up the furniture, and frightening the children and drive his wife to tears. One day he reformed and decided to never drink again, and from then on he would come home…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Elizabeth Eliot tells of the hardship she and Jim went through in being missionaries in Ecuador. Shortly after their marriage they were asked to teach a group of 18 children. The entire class was for the two wives of one man. They lived in a leaky tent for 5 months. They had only…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Hubert Humphry's father was a druggist in a small town in South Dakota. He had to come up with a way to increase profits at his soda fountain. He began to push the idea of putting an egg in his malts to enrich them. Nobody was ordering the new malt, so told his clerks to ask people…

Intro -- Col 3:3-4: “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” So, is Christ your life? Is your life hidden such that when people see you they are really seeing Christ, and not you? Even in your…

By Pastor Glenn Pease The author of a tract entitled Come To Jesus got engaged in a theological dispute, and he wrote another publication in which he cut his opponent to pieces with razor sharp sarcasm. He let a friend read it and then asked if he had any suggestions for a title. His friend said, "How…

Eccles. 3:1 "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven." (NASB) Last year the Woman's US Gymnastics' team captured the world championship in Anaheim California, but didn't fair so well in the first day of competition in the Olympic Games in Athens. The…

PRINTED Becoming a Person of Balance in a Culture of Compulsions Restoring the Savor of Our Salt Series Message # 11 In 1 Timothy 4, beginning in verse 6, Paul, speaking to Timothy, says, “If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished…

One of the things that has stuck in my mind while growing up was seeing a tasting contest. Maybe you have seen one or two in your time; but if you haven’t it isn’t a hard thing to imagine. At a local fair there would be a pie, a cobbler, or cake someone made and you paid to get a chance at guessing the…