From the desk of Pastor David,

“If you’re going to give me directions, please don’t confuse me by using words like north, south, east, or west.”  -Anonymous

As I have confessed in this newsletter before, I am somewhat of a You Tube addict. But I can’t help myself because it is such a fascinating window on the world, both past and present (and with the advent of AI, possibly the future?!). I have my regular channels I follow on topics such as theology, religion, geopolitics, music, nutrition, etc. But once in awhile I stumble across new insights and trends, some good, most bad.

         The latest I found is a channel called “This is Why I Stay Home.” The creator of the channel provides a series of short clips featuring people exhibiting the most outrageous, aberrant behavior heretofore unimaginable. These are not immature youth hungry for attention or showing off their silliness. These are adults who are way outside the norm, people who have permanently disfigured themselves with tattoos, piercings, and implants to look like snakes and lizards; others who parade around and prefer to identify as dogs and cats; still others engaging in shrill screaming and zombie-like behavior in a public square. There are to date eight episodes of this program; I turned off the one I was watching after 5 minutes. It was truly shocking and depressing to how low we have sunk.

         I mention this because, on the one hand, it makes me appreciate how Scripture is proven right when it says,
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. (Romans 1)

 But it also makes me delight in the grounding we have in Scripture. God shared His likeness with us in our love of beauty and truth and righteousness. Are we perfect? Absolutely not. Do we know when we have sinned? Yes. But through our faith, our sins are wiped away and our guidepost is the Holy Rock.
He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure. (Isaiah 33)

Blessings to you.
Pastor David

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