Category: Pastor’s Pen

BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH The Apostles were the foundation of the Christian faith, but they built upon the chief cornerstone, Jesus Christ. Without the cornerstone there could be no sound foundation and without the foundation there can be no building.  Acts 4:10-12: “Be it known unto you all, and to all…

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One fine spring Sunday morning, the Baptist preacher was gazing out of his office window at a nearby trout stream. “Today would be a good day to sneak off and go fishing,” he thought. The weather was perfect, his fly rod had new string, he had very recently heard reports of a good trout run,…

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BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH There were times when golf course etiquette was completely traded in for the ever-popular “lose control and act like a madman” routine. There’s something intriguing about watching a full-grown man crumble to pieces over a tiny ball that’s 1½ inches in diameter. I’ve seen guys throw their…

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BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Some years ago, two teenagers with a long history of crime and misbehavior robbed a YMCA on the lowest East Side of New York City. On the way out they saw a young man at the telephone switchboard. They were frightened and assumed that the man must…

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BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Even when we come across test questions that seem simple on the surface, we find that they’re often not as simple as we first thought. For instance, the answer to the question, “How long did the Hundred Years War last?’ seems obvious, but the answer is 116…

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BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH On May 28, 1914, a ship called the Express of Ireland hit another ship and began to sink quickly. As the ship began to sink in the cold Atlantic Ocean, it was discovered that there were not enough life belts on board for all the passengers. On…

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BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH In Canada, a believer operated a large grain farm. His spread included some 2,500 acres. When asked how he planted the seed, he reached into a bin and pulled out an ear of corn. Then he proceeded to pop out the kernels one by one as he…

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BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Chuck Yeager was the first man ever to break the sound barrier in an aircraft. Planes like the British Meteor jets that approached the speed of sound (760 mph at sea level, 660 mph at 40,000 feet) had encountered severe buffeting of the controls. At that time,…

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BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Habakkuk 3:17-19: “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the…

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