THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER You may not think that I noticed, but I did—and I appreciated it. So many of you do so many little things that make our church a home. Every month you prepare the Lord’s Table to make sure that we all can come to the Lord’s Supper. Every Monday you clean the […]...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Moving is not entertaining but it can be enlightening. Our recent move allowed us to re-discover our belongings that had been buried somewhere. One of them was a picture that Santy and I took the moment we arrived in Hawaii for our honeymoon—almost 35 years ago—where we s...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Our neighbor, who lives across the street from where we live in Malang, was not very neighborly—for a good reason. You see, when our daughter lived in Malang for a year, she had a pet—a big German shepherd. After she left, Milo—the name of the dog—stayed behind and wa...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER This is our chance to fill in the blank Pastor Steve...

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The blank matters      We all could come up with good words to fill in the blank and we could all find justification for the word that we chose.       Want to know my word?       I honestly believe there are many wo...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Fill in the blank The purpose of the church is ___________. Pastor Steve...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER In her commencement’s address to the 2019 graduating class of Harvard University, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, said this, “There is no beginning without an end, no day without night, no life without death. Our whole life consists of the difference, the space betw...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER One of the happiest persons I’ve met is my maternal grandmother.  I lived with my grandmother—even though not continuously—so I knew she was a genuinely happy person.  She woke up early, she helped in the kitchen, she would do anything to help.  When she�...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Justin was a brilliant philosopher before he became a Christian. After he became a Christian, he did not abandon philosophy. Instead he kept his profession and life’s calling because he said, after he became a Christian, he became a “better philosopher.” Justin, who liv...