Tag: grace

• An Encounter with God

  I have a wonderment this week.  I wonder if the only ones who truly try to meet with God are the fringe elements of our family.  Now, I am not talking about all of us who have meetings about God, but when it comes to meeting God on a Sunday morning (or any day of…

  Pastor John

  May 2, 2011

  Salvation, Uncategorized

  Baptist, Calvary, church, cold, come near, dead, emotion, encounter, faith, forgiveness, God, grace, hope, indianola, Isaiah 6, Jesus, joy, love, mercy, philosophy, real, relationship, theology, wonder

• Thanksgiving

  This week we celebrate Thanksgiving.  Yet, I wonder how often we really have given thanks.  I mean, it is one thing to utter the simple, “Thank you.”  It is quite another to truly give thanks.  Do we even understand how powerful thanksgiving is?  God has said in His Word that the refusing to give thanks…

  Pastor John

  November 22, 2010

  Salvation, Uncategorized

  faith, grace, hope, life, love, power, remembering, thanksgiving, water

• Wounded Warriors

  The other day I saw an animal that had obviously been hit by a car.  Some kind person (probably its owner) was trying to get the animal in their car.  The animal kept shying away from the person.  It was scared.  It was hurt.  So, it didn’t want to be hurt more.  It was wounded,…

  Pastor John

  November 1, 2010

  Uncategorized

  beliefs, bitterness, Calvary, grace, help one another, hope, love, mercy, wounded