Category: Pastor’s Message

Despite mounting pressure to end it, 38 states still have the death penalty. Most of these states allow a last meal for condemned prisoners. The “last supper” is a tradition that dates back to ancient Greece. A few prisoners have unselfishly ordered their large last meal to be shared with other death row inmates. Most…
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Mountains challenge us to climb them. We’ve now conquered them all, even the highest mountain in the world. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the top of Mount Everest, 29,020 feet above the earth. Maybe mountaintops are special because there you can find the solitude necessary to encounter God.…
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We’ve all been warned to be careful what we ask for, because we just might get it. A birthday cartoon shows a woman blowing out the candles on her cake. She makes her wish: “I wish that I would stop aging.” The next frame shows her splayed out on the floor, dead in an instant.…
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In one of the “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoons, Calvin and his tiger Hobbes come upon an injured raccoon. Calvin tells Hobbes to stand guard while he summons Mom to the rescue. The raccoon is placed in a shoebox with some food and water, but the next morning Calvin is told that the little guy didn’t…
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The 1967 “Peanuts” animated TV special “You’re in Love, Charlie Brown” tells of his obsession with the Little Red Haired Girl. Charlie has been secretly infatuated with her for years. He’s always been too chicken to approach her. Once, she dropped her pencil in the hallway and Charlie picked it up. It had tooth marks…
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