Category: Pastor’s Pen

BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH A young lady is uncomfortable about her spiritual life. She believes in God, belongs to a Christian church, attends the church’s weekly service, and gives offerings, yet still feels emptiness and confusion. • She sat on the church’s pew until the preacher pronounced the benediction, yet she could…

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BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Matthew 25:21: “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” A certain king needed a faithful servant and had to…

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BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Christmas is about Jesus coming to earth to become a man, to live as a man and to die as a man. Jesus was born for us. He was given to us. He died for us. Why did we need Him? Why was He born? Why did He…

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BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Matthew 25:21: “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” A certain king needed a faithful servant and had to…

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BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH There seems to be no limit to our fears. In a Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown goes to Lucy for a nickel’s worth of psychiatric help. She proceeds to pinpoint his particular “fear.” “Perhaps,” she says, “you have hypengyophobia, which is the fear of responsibility.” Charlie Brown says,…

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BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH “But as one was cutting down a tree the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, ‘Alas, master! For it was borrowed.’” (2 Kings 6:5) The ax fell into the water. They lost their cutting edge. How do we get it back…

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BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH We are at the beginning of a very special time of the year. The season that begins this week and runs through New Year has come to be known as the holiday season. The word “holiday” is a shortened form of what ancient people called “the holy days.”…

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BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH In a backyard, there once lived an apple tree and a thorn bush. The apple tree produced nice juicy apples that everyone liked to eat. Kids would climb up the tree and pluck the apples. Worms would eat the ones that fell on the ground. Birds would peck…

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