This Month at PAYH: Monthly Newsletter, June 2020
Our Father is Always With Us In May of 1945, just over 75 years ago, the forces of Imperial Japan were on the brink of defeat. Nazi Germany had surrendered at the beginning of the month, and Japan now stood alone, outnumbered, and surrounded. It was simply a matter of »
Ultimate Sacrifice
[Jesus told His disciples] “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” -John 15:13 The praise of the Lord is effusive for those who purposefully give up their life to save another! Memorial Day is a celebration of poignant gravity to remember »
Memorial Day 2020
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The Door of Heaven
“And when He had said these things, as they were looking on, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.” -Acts 1:9 Today is Ascension Day. This ascension of Jesus, to say the least, confounds the critics of Christianity and Scripture. It disturbs their understanding »
The Surprising Encounter
“Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked to us on the road, while He opened to us the Scriptures?” -Luke 24:32 They had been clobbered by the events of the last few days; they were really in a total stupor. They shared over and over with one »
The Mother of All Living
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.’ Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.” -Proverbs 31:28-29,31 We celebrate another Mother’s Day on »
This Month at PAYH: Monthly Newsletter, May 2020
The New Normal I cannot believe how much our daily lives have changed in the last few months. I don’t think any of us could have imagined the impact the coronavirus would have when we first heard about it. Here at the PAYH, we have been on a shelter-in-place order »
Forty-Day Proof
“The Lord has risen indeed.” - Luke 24:34 The tomb was empty. What did it prove? Remember the soldiers and Jewish leaders widely spread a story that, even though they certainly knew better, Jesus’ friends came during the night and, under the nose of a very sufficient Roman guard, stole »
A Last Second Request
“And he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.’ And He said to him, ‘Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in paradise.’” -Luke 23:42-43 Easter has passed, but it is well worth your time to think once more of the cross. Recapture »
Nuts!
https://vimeo.com/409922856 If you read our newsletter, you’ve read the story of the 101st Airborne and how they stubbornly refused to give up the fight, replying with a simple “NUTS!” when the Germans demanded their surrender. Just like the 101st in Bastogne, we can sometimes feel a besieged. Fortunately, we have »
Staying in the Fight
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. – Matthew 6:33 I was once asked what combat was like. Believe it or not, my answer described a feeling that I am almost sure a lot of you have been feeling. “Will ‘it’ happen »
