Category: Pastor’s Meditations

                 The vast majority of the movies coming out of Hollywood today are worthless and ungodly. There is barely any redeeming value in most of them. These films have become a venue of all sorts of immoral behavior, unnecessary violence, extremely coarse and blasphemous language and many other unbiblical and…

                I have a bad habit, well I have many bad habits, but one of the worse ones (according to my wife) is that I allegedly chew food with my mouth open. I don’t know how many times she has brought this to my attention, but it has been more…

                A few weeks ago, I addressed the theme of the assurance of our salvation in one of the sermons in the book of Colossians. In chapter 1 verse 23 the apostle admonishes the church to persevere in the faith:                 “if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and…

                Lately I have been thinking a lot about reaching out to our church neighbors and invite them to our church services. My plan is simple: Go out on Saturday mornings around the neighborhood and talk to them about Christ and our church.                 I pray that we will be successful and that many will…

                Right now I’m waiting outside the store where my wife and mother in law are shopping. I have been waiting for a while now and by the looks of it, it seems that I’ll be waiting for a long time.                 I don’t know about you, but I don’t enjoy waiting for anyone. Everywhere…

                “Te gusta to go to the iglesia?”                 “Do you like ir a la church?”                 The phrases above all mean the same thing (find out the meaning if you can) and are a clear example of a hybrid language that is spoken all the time by bilingual people in Miami and other cosmopolitan…

                The New Year is here. It is a new beginning for some and more of the same for most. The hype and excitement of this New Year, will quickly wear off in the next few days or weeks.                 “Happy New Year!”                 We often say this phrase to each other at midnight on…

                   Every time my wife and I go out to eat at a restaurant, we usually have to wait for a while. As we reserve our table the host invariably asks us the same question:                 “How many are in your party (or group)?”                 To which we usually reply:                 “It’s just the two…

        When I think of black days in my life, I think of sadness, destruction and despair. Why would we as Americans call the day after we celebrate Thanksgiving “Black Friday”?        As I read in the dictionary the words “grateful” and “thankful” I do not read anything about darkness,…

                There is a global epidemic of homelessness all over the world. According to some official estimates, there are over 150 million homeless people worldwide. In the United States alone, there are more than a half a million homeless individuals, especially in big cities like New York and California.                 Over half of these homeless…