Category: Pastor’s Pen

  • The Greatest Words Jesus Ever Said

    BY JACK WARD Some people have a way with words. They just have such a grasp of language and an eloquence of speech that they are always saying things that are deeply profound. Jesus was a person like that. All through the years of His recorded ministry, one thing about Him kept the people spellbound:

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  • This is Good

    BY JACK WARD The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, “This is good!” One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting

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  • The Wrong Horse

    BY JACK WARD Two Kentucky farmers who owned racing stables had developed a keen rivalry. One spring, each of them entered a horse in a local steeplechase. Thinking that a professional rider might help him outdo his friend, one of the farmers engaged a crack jockey. The two horses led the race at the last

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  • The Pastor’s Pen: Why Do I Have to Wait?

    BY JACK WARD What if I were going to go under a surgeon’s knife to redo my face, but I wanted to stay awake during the operation so I could tell the surgeon exactly how I wanted him to work on me? What If I told him to hurry? What if I were so impatient

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  • The Pastor’s Pen: The Struggle of Honest Doubt

    BY JACK WARD I heard a pastor tell a story about a miracle that happened in the life of a 15-year-old girl during a weekend retreat. Quiet, reserved, shy, brilliant and troubled. That’s how he described her. All weekend her hollow, lifeless eyes searched for answers to gnawing questions that had eroded her life and

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  • The Pastor’s Pen

    Balancing the Books BY JACK WARD When Jesus was tortured, it was the torture that should have been ours. On a very small scale, we all understand this principle. Imagine a young boy buying a small piece of candy at the store counter. The clerk rings it up, and it comes to 20 cents. He

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  • The Pastor’s Pen: Into the Flames

    BY JACK WARD Can you imagine what it was like for the church in Smyrna as they watched their beloved and aged pastor burn at the stake? Polycarp was his name. He was a disciple of Jesus’ disciple, the Apostle John. One could tell it immediately because he possessed the same tenderness and compassion as

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  • The Pastor’s Pen: Are You Confused?

    BY JACK WARD             Christians believe that Jesus is the only way God has provided for mankind to be saved from the curse of sin. What about those who would say, “There can’t be just one way. That can’t be. What about those who sincerely believe in these other religions? What about them? If I

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  • The Pastor’s Pen: The Faith of Atheism

    BY JACK WARD Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Bible does not attempt to explain God, defend God or discover God. The Bible simply states that in the beginning, God was already there. Atheists must conclude that their belief that an accident began creation takes more faith than

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  • The Pastor’s Pen: Who Do You Follow?

    BY Jack Ward I heard the story of the woman driving through a snowstorm just outside of Denver. She was completely lost and struggling under hazardous weather conditions. She was relieved when she happened upon a snowplow. Since she was lost, she decided to follow the truck and kept as close to the machine as

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