We often refer to the group of brave individuals who birthed America as our Founding Fathers.

The foundation our nation was built upon was the faith and vision of men that wanted to be free. 

Each year we have special days on our social and personal calendars that we want to remember.  One of those days is even called Memorial Day.  July 4th, D-Day, Christmas Day, Easter, birthdays, anniversaries, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are all special days of remembrance. 

These days are foundational to our social and cultural calendars.  Celebrating and remembering the purpose of these days defines who we are. 

Today, as a people and as a church, we honor and celebrate Father’s Day.

Our Bible teaches us that God uses this human relationship with Jesus and God the Father.

God is our heavenly Father.  Jesus even taught us to pray, “Our Father, which art in Heaven.” We learn of our Father’s kingdom in Matthew 26 and our Father’s business in Luke chapter 2.

Luke 12:32 speaks of our Father’s “good pleasures” and another reference we all remember, “In my Father’s house are many mansions…”

Father God speaks to His children (the saved, the redeemed, the church) through the life and sacrifice of His Son, Jesus.  God the Father teaches and instructs us through His Holy Word, our Bible.

Notice God’s instruction in Psalm 78:3, “Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.”

God said to us, the parents and the grandparents of today, focusing on our dads, to say, ”We will not deny the Lord God, our Heavenly Father, in the way we live and conduct our lives!”

Verse 4 states that we will not hide the truth of God and His Word from our families, “…shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.”

Fathers, families, and friends, let’s rededicate our lives and energy to serving the Lord!

You are loved, 

Pastor Ralph

John 3:30

The first thing we do when we get home at night is to turn on the light. We cannot find our way without light.  Dark is dangerous!

When the fire of revival is burning it does the same thing spiritually. The light of salvation, in the light of the gospel, lights our way.

The powerful moving of the Holy Spirit of God works to shine the light of conviction into our lives. The searchlight of revival starts the soul searching questions about eternity.

Am I a follower of Christ? Does my life exhibit evidence that I have been redeemed by Jesus?  Have the old things of the dark way of seeing things past away? Does my life show the light of the indwelling Christ?

Matthew 5:16 tells us, “…let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works…“

On Wednesday evening God turned on the light of self-examination in our service. That is powerful exclamation from the grace of God!

When God turns the light on in our lives we begin to see the past the darkness of our self-denial.  God‘s love for us lights up the parts of our lives that need to change.

When they can see the change in us, it points our family and friends to the power of Jesus.  The scripture states that we are the light of the world. Our lives in Christ can light the way for others In this dark world of sin and confusion.

John 8:12 declares the words of Jesus, “I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

As Pastor, my prayer is for you to have the light of revival for that is the light of life!

You are loved,

Pastor Ralph