by sjchurchadmin | Nov 8, 2015 | Pastor's Desk
At the turn of the century, a man wrote in his diary the story of a young newsboy he met on a street near his home in London. It was well known in the neighborhood that the boy was an orphan. All a!empts to place the boy in either an ins”tu”on or a foster...
by sjchurchadmin | Nov 1, 2015 | Pastor's Desk
A pastor was explaining the pictures of his Church’s stained glass windows to the third graders. The first stained window is really red, the next window is really blue, the next window is really green, and the next window is really yellow. The sun has come up in the...
by sjchurchadmin | Oct 25, 2015 | Pastor's Desk
There is a story, believed to be true, about Abraham Lincoln, just before the close of the Civil War. Landowners in the Deep South were cutting their losses, liquidating their slaves before slavery was banned, and President Lincoln came upon a slave auction in...
by sjchurchadmin | Oct 18, 2015 | Pastor's Desk
Michael Hargrove tells about a scene at an airport that literally changed his life. He was picking up a friend. He noticed a man coming toward him carrying two light bags. The man stopped right next to Hargrove to greet his family. The man motioned to his youngest son...
by sjchurchadmin | Oct 11, 2015 | Pastor's Desk
King Herod had married his brother’s wife, Herodias, viola!ng the Mosaic Law. John the Bap!st showed courage in condemning the king in public and lost his head for it. The Pharisees were se&ng a trap for Jesus, by asking whether he agreed with his cousin...
by sjchurchadmin | Oct 4, 2015 | Pastor's Desk
.A few years back, a British couple held the Guinness world record for the longest marriage. Percy and Florence Arrowsmith married on June 1, 1925 and celebrated their 80th anniversary on June 1, 2005. “I think we’re very blessed,” Florence,...
