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by: Gary L. Hutchens Here we are near the end of the first month of a new year. Are you suddenly wondering where the month has gone? In a few more months people will be expressing amazement at how much of the year has already passed. A few months after that we’ll wonder where the year has gone. As the years of our life mount up, time seems to fly by more and more quickly. The bottom-line reality is, Life Is Short!
by: Gary L. Hutchens Are you happy with your spiritual life? Is your faith as strong and deep and sustaining as you’d like it to be? How are you doing as a Christian? Do you believe that your life is pleasing to God? These are probing questions that can be painful to answer. Yet, they’re questions that each of us needs to consider on a regular basis, for we’re instructed to “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves.” (2 Cor. 13:5).
By: Gary L. Hutchens Jesus encouraged us, “Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life” (Rev. 2:10). The “crown of life” signifies eternal life in Heaven, eternal salvation. Eternal life is a gift offered to us by God through grace. Our responsibility in receiving this gift is to “be faithful until death.” We are not just to become faithful, we are to live in faithfulness until the day we die. We must even be willing to die for our faith, if necessary.
By: Gary L. Hutchens We’ve crossed over the threshold of time once again, moving from one year into another. This is the forty third bulletin article I’ve been privileged to write at the beginning of a new year. Five, including this one, have come at the beginning of a new decade. One ushered in a new century and millennium. I suppose a preacher naturally mulls over to a somewhat greater degree just what he should write at the beginning of a new year. He wants to say something profound, something that will stimulate thoughtfulness and positive action on both an individual and a congregational basis.
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