A Common Predicament: You Age
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass and we fly away. -Psalm 90:10 I am today three score and two. King David made it to 70, his son, King Solomon, »
Outdoing the Super Bowl
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen. Revelation 1:7 The record number of viewers for a Super Bowl is around 115 million-ish. A brief »
With Fear and Trembling
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling... Philippians 2:12 “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. What? Are you not to “cast out fear in your life? Does God really give to you and want you to have a spirit of fear? No, according to Scripture. »
Sanctity of Human Life
It feels bizarre that we have a day to remember the unborn babies lost to abortion. What I mean is that it is so counterintuitive because mothers shouldn’t kill their children. That is a basic rule of nature. God created us to grow, birth, and nurture our children; it’s the »
2017? Now Just A Vapor!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:2 2017 is history. The year has gone and is but a memory. Things about this year are still remembered – not all, but some. Still, nothing can be changed about 2017. Words cannot be withdrawn or re-spoken. They can be repented of, »
Enews: Jan. 2018
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_cta h2="Looking Forward to a New Year"]It was an active and eventful holiday season for the young men and staff at PAYH. While Thanksgiving and Christmas are always enjoyable times to be with our PAYH family, for me a highlight of the year is watching our young men in the »
We Are Like Grass
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of the Lord lasts forever. Isaiah 40:8 New Year? What does a new year say to you? Is this transition like any other day? 2018 will deliver to your life something. What will it be? Time, you know, moves continuously without »
Distinguished Foreign Visitors
“Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star when it rose and have come to worship »
Waiting Is Not Natural, But It Is Godly
“Therefore, you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 1 Corinthians 1:7 I am not a good waiter. I get irritated by bumper-to-bumper traffic. I hate waiting in long lines. I am always looking for a quicker way, some »
God’s Vast Host: Angels
“And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, »
The Mary For Whom Marys Are Named
“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored »
First Visitors
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9 They say shepherds did not have a good reputation around the time of Jesus’ birth. Did »