eHomily by Pastor Ron Several years ago, an aircraft departed from a western U.S. airbase. During a preliminary attempt at take-off, they were forced to abort the take-off. In the failure of take-off, the navigational instruments were damaged and, unknown to the navigator, began to malfunction. The plane taxied around and for a second time attempted a take-off, this time successfully. However, thei...  Read More

eHomily by Pastor Ron There is an ancient legend about two friends walking across a desert wilderness. They began to argue and one of the men slapped the other. The man who had been slapped didn’t strike back. Instead, he wrote these words in the sand: Today my friend hurt me. A couple of days later, they were in mountainous terrain and one friend slipped, fell, and was hanging onto a ledge. The s...  Read More

eHomily by Pastor Ron This past Sunday we studied Jacob, the man who wrestled with God, and how he learned the valuable life lesson of humility. This is an important lesson for us all. However, as D.L. Moody once said: “There’s no lesson harder to learn than humility.” In the days before electronic media, it was possible for public figures to escape recognition as they intermingled with the public...  Read More

eHomily by Pastor RonIn the Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor warns his shipmates about a great magnetic rock in the Indian Ocean that would draw all the nails and bolts out of passing ships. The ships would then collapse and sink. In our own world, there is the draw of temptations and the pull of storms which threaten to sink us but the Lord is the one who will sustain us. He is the one who holds...  Read More

eHomily by Pastor RonThere is a story I like—A man was lost in the desert and dying for a drink of water. He stumbled upon an old shack—a windowless, roofless,weather-beaten old shack. He looked about this place and found a little shade from the heat of the desert sun. As he glanced across the room, he saw a pump about 15 feet away with an old, rusty water pump. He stumbled over to it, grabbed th...  Read More

Are you able to fill-in this blank on a biblical quotation question? “Our Father Which Art In Heaven ___________ Be Thy Name” (Matthew 6:9).I am confident you know the answer to this question is Hallowed.  Well, it turns out that three of thesmart contestants on the TV Show Jeopardy on Tuesday, June 16, had no clue as to what was the answer to this $200 clue when asked by Jeopardy host Mayim Baili...  Read More