Mar 26, 2024 | Pastor Perspective
Lent is a time of preparation. It is when we are to spend time (at least in theory) pondering the journey of Christ from those early celebratory moments of Christmas towards Good Friday. Lent itself begins with Ashes and ends with a Holy Week. With Ash Wednesday, the...
Feb 23, 2024 | Pastor Perspective
Let me begin by sharing a few life lessons I have gained over the years. Pastors need to know basic copying machine maintenance. The easiest way to fall asleep is to not try to fall asleep. Major life decisions should not be made between the hours of 3-5 AM. That last...
Jan 23, 2024 | Pastor Perspective
I find that I am war weary. We seem to be becoming so used to warfare that we no longer understand how to live without it in our lives in some fashion. I must wonder sometimes if our perpetual sense of warfare is to blame for the increasing lack of civility in our...
Dec 22, 2023 | Pastor Perspective
I would like to share a passage I wrote for my book From Advent to Ascension: A Journey with the Christ. I think it fits this time of year quite well. With Advent is the sense of anticipation. For many Christians, that anticipation seems to end on Christmas Eve – the...
Dec 8, 2023 | Pastor Perspective
We begin our journey with Advent. As far as the Church Universal is concerned, Advent is the place of beginnings and, to some degree, endings. That has to do with the fact that for the Christian year, not to be confused with the calendar year, fiscal year, or...
Aug 11, 2023 | News and Events, Pastor Perspective, Sermons
During the month of August, Pastor Charles Ensminger’s sermons will share the theme: “Trans.” The prefix “trans” means “over, across, beyond.” It’s a prefix that has come to mean much more and has become not only a prefix, but a term in its own...
