August 2025
In the interest of full disclosure, I am borrowing this months “Pastor’s Point” from one of my past social media postings.
I hope that it will bless you as we think about themes like love and forgiveness. I’ll see you next month!
Romans 5:6-8
6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
“I was having a conversation with a friend recently about an issue he was having with someone. This other person had
betrayed him, and mistreated him; quite possibly criminally. I could feel my friend's anger welling up in him. All he could talk about then was getting justice. What really concerned me was his 'justice' started to sound like vengeance. I understood his hurt, pain and frustration. And after he vented a while I asked him a simple question:
“I wonder if God still loves him?”
John 3:16 says that God "SO loved the WORLD...!" And from what I understand, it was a world populated exclusively with sinners! Those that rebelled, sinned against, and turned their backs on God! (By the way, that was all of us at one time)
Yet....God still loved/loves them/us! So much so, that "While we were sinners, Christ died for us!"
Just think about it! He died for all of us, and each of us!
Soooooo..... Justice- yes!
Vengeance- no!
Love- always!”
Pastor J.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am borrowing this months “Pastor’s Point” from one of my past social media postings.
I hope that it will bless you as we think about themes like love and forgiveness. I’ll see you next month!
Romans 5:6-8
6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
“I was having a conversation with a friend recently about an issue he was having with someone. This other person had
betrayed him, and mistreated him; quite possibly criminally. I could feel my friend's anger welling up in him. All he could talk about then was getting justice. What really concerned me was his 'justice' started to sound like vengeance. I understood his hurt, pain and frustration. And after he vented a while I asked him a simple question:
“I wonder if God still loves him?”
John 3:16 says that God "SO loved the WORLD...!" And from what I understand, it was a world populated exclusively with sinners! Those that rebelled, sinned against, and turned their backs on God! (By the way, that was all of us at one time)
Yet....God still loved/loves them/us! So much so, that "While we were sinners, Christ died for us!"
Just think about it! He died for all of us, and each of us!
Soooooo..... Justice- yes!
Vengeance- no!
Love- always!”
Pastor J.