by Aaron McCollough | Feb 16, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
I made the statement in a sermon I preached recently that most everybody is facing a situation in life that is causing them to struggle to find a way forward. Sometimes the only way to discover the way forward is by examining the past. When we examine our past, we...
by Aaron McCollough | Feb 2, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
Not long ago I took a book off the shelf in my office that I had read several years earlier. It is entitled, “The Last Lecture.” It was written by Randy Pausch. Randy was a terminally ill professor who was literally given the opportunity to give one final lecture to...
by Aaron McCollough | Jan 19, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
His name is Ryan. He is twenty-five years old. He was the skydive instructor and tandem parachutist who instructed and jumped with my wife Marianne, this Memorial Day Weekend, when she jumped out of a perfectly good airplane at 14, 650 feet. Yes. You read that...
by Aaron McCollough | Jan 3, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16: 33(KJV) I heard the story of a nurse that hurt herself while lifting one of her patients. As she...
by Aaron McCollough | Dec 29, 2016 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
We all enter 2017 on a journey from somewhere to somewhere else. (Reread!) The late Truett Cathy, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Chick-fil-A, gave us a wonderful guide to life, that if applied, will help us navigate 2017 and the rest of our lives successfully. ...
by Aaron McCollough | Nov 19, 2015 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
In Galatians 6:7(KJV) the Bible explicitly states, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” This truth is an irrevocable law that transcends the whole Bible and every action of mankind. In short, we don’t sow corn...
