Crabtree Valley Baptist Church

Years ago, a church member told me that they felt like they were living in a pressure cooker. It was their way of describing the stress they were feeling from all the demands that were being placed upon them. Mark 6:31 describes one

Mother’s Day, next to Christmas and Easter, may be the most celebrated time of the year.  For years telephone companies have said that more calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day. Someone wrote this beautiful tribute. Mothers are everything for

An anniversary is a date when you remember something special that happened on that date in an earlier year. The number of anniversaries celebrated is legion. Our most notable ones are birthdays, weddings and deaths. Every organization in society including the government and churches and

Mount Washington located in the Presidential Range of Mountains in New Hampshire is part of the White Mountain National Park and has the distinction of being the highest Peak in the northeastern United States. Mount Washington is in the category of magnificent, awesome, mind boggling

From time to time we all have heard someone bragging that they are self made. The perception they want to transmit is that they got where they are today by their own efforts. Such thinking is at the best faulty and near sighted

If you ever have a doubt about the seriousness of sin, just look at the cross. The Bible says that “while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  (Romans 5:8) The cross is the strongest evidence available of God’s judgment upon sin.

Some call it passion Sunday while others refer to it as Palm Sunday. As we gather for worship next Sunday we are in the sixth week of lent. It is the  beginning of Holy Week, the week of Jesus crucifixion and the week

The vote of confidence that you have extended to me in calling me as your Pastor is both humbling and deeply appreciated. When we accepted your call to serve as Interim Pastor nine months ago, the thought of being asked to serve

I am a faithful and avid reader of Oswald Chambers’ classic devotional book, “My Utmost for His Highest.” Ruth Bell Graham said that this book was “One of a kind.” I agree. If you want to deepen your spiritual life, if you want

Reinhold Niebuhr was an American theologian, ethicist, public intellectual, commentator on politics and public affairs, pastor and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. In the summer of 1943, when Adolf Hitler’s armies marched unchecked across Europe, he wrote what we know today as