Author: Pastor Smith

Text: 1John 4:10-12 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us […]

Text:  Isaiah 40:3-5,9 3 A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. 5 And the glory of the Lord will […]

Matthew 18: 21-35 (read 21,22) Leonardo Da Vinci was a great painter, engineer, draftsman and thinker.  The story is told that before he painted the LAST SUPPER, he had a violent argument with a fellow painter.  Davinci was so mad that he decided to paint the face of his enemy into the face of Judas Iscariot, Jesus’ betrayer.  He painted […]

2 Kings 5: 1-15 Imagine a doctor accidentally stumbles upon a cure for a dreaded disease.  He’s excited about the prospect but then he says to himself.  It’s too much trouble to get this treatment approved by the Food and Drug administration.  And what if someone sues me?  So he keeps it to himself. Sound a bit far-fetched?  Maybe.  Yet […]

Text:  Isaiah 55: 10-13 We were at the Minnesota State fair.  It’s a great fair if you ever get to go.  We were in a building where you see people selling all kinds of things.  I usually avoid buying but have fun listening.  But one fellow caught my eye.  He was demonstrating some special kind of cleaning tool.  See how […]