“Songs In the Key Of Life”  One of the great privileges I have as your pastor is to watch you sing. Please don’t take offense; I love to hear you sing, too! But when I am up front and seeing who is singing, there is an immense solemn joy I get to experience.  I get to watch people with cancer, people with…

Why We Cannot Call The Pope ‘our Pope’ By Pastor Tedd Mathis October 2015 We live in an age that urges us to set aside doctrinal convictions for the sake of religious or social unity. Sometimes the source of that urging catches us off guard. Like when well-known Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren enthusiastically endorses Pope Francis as “our Pope” saying he…

I’ve been working on some thoughts for this column regarding truths we need to remind ourselves of in the last days. Hopefully, it will be ready for next month (if the Lord hasn’t come, we’ll still be in the last days!). Until then, be encouraged by some of my mother’s poetry. Mom wrote much over the years, self-publishing a number of compilations.…

Pride must be put to death all the way to the grave  It would be easy for me, and us as a church, to become known primarily as the pastor or church that abhors homosexuality. Or drunkeness. Or… you fill in the blank. I hope I don’t and we don’t. While we do not want to ignore moral issues of our day,…

“The New Calamity” by John Piper Jesus died so that heterosexual and homosexual sinners might be saved. Jesus created sexuality, and has a clear will for how it is to be experienced in holiness and joy. His will is that a man might leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and that the two become one flesh (Mark 10:6–9).…

Vacation Bible School on June 15 – 19 at 6:30 – 8:30 pm Kids will have fun getting into the BOOK! Snacks, games, crafts for children age 4 through 6th grade. Questions or Pre-registration? Call us at 547-2858. To Download a PDF of our VBS Registration Form, click the link: PWBC VBS 2015 Registration Form You can print it, fill it out and bring…

Here are a few thoughts ruminating in my mind as I prepare to officiate at my son and his fiance’s wedding and Dawn and I soon mark 35 years of marriage. Simple vows are being stated; their beauty yet to be seen. A vow is a solemn oath. A pledge, a promise, a covenant. Marriage vows are not fancy words, flowery words.…

  (Excerpts from a recent blog on The Gospel Coalition… see full blog post here.)   How do you know when someone is repentant? Here are some thoughts from Jonathan Leeman: In Matthew 18 Jesus provides us help for determining true repentance: would we be willing to cut off a hand or tear out an eye rather than repeat the sin (Matt.…

Guard Yourselves From Idols We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has…

 The only effective safeguard against spiritual erosion is not (a) doctrinal statement on paper but personally to swallow the Word whole. Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.  — Jeremiah 15:16  By Ray Ortlund, Senior Pastor…