Our Wicked Hearts
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By Wayne Williams -- “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives.” ...
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The Church Scattered
By Wayne Williams -- Well, these are certainly historic days we are living through! This COVID-19 crisis is more world-wide than either of the world wars of the last century. Our grandchildren will be telling their grandchildren about it. But would you mind terribly if I didn’t say too...
Going Viral
By Wayne Williams -- I caught the virus last week. No, no, no, not the new and potentially fatal coronavirus (COVID-19), but the much more common and not dangerous GKID-5 virus. Paulette and I spent the week caring for five of our grandchildren while their parents were traveling and I came home...
Anticipation and Perspective
By Wayne Williams -- I know I’m not alone in this, but I for one am very glad that Greg Lunsford has joined us as our Lead Pastor. With each step in the process, the candidating, the church’s strong vote of approval, our invitation to come work with us, and Greg’s enthusiastic...
Party Time
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By Wayne Williams -- The theme of this third week of Advent is JOY! It’s time for Christmas celebrations to kick into high gear. I hope you’ve got some big and/or small celebratory events (Parties!) planned and that you let yourself revel in the wondrous truth that the Creator...
Clearview Chess Club
By Wayne Williams -- I appreciated our good friend, Dick Middlebrooks’, heart-felt message from a couple of weeks ago about how each of us have a responsibility to tell others about Jesus. It’s a lifestyle, not a program. A couple of days after that message, another of our good...
Milestones
By Wayne Williams -- We are approaching another milestone in the history of our church, the welcoming of a new Lead Pastor. Although he has yet to be confirmed by congregational vote, it appears very likely that Pastor Greg Lunsford will be stepping into that role by the first of the year. As...
The Jesus-Bond in SW Portland
By Wayne Williams -- I have been fortunate over the years to have visited several other countries and to have had the opportunity to worship with Christians of different languages, cultures, traditions, and practices. Whether it was a congregation in the Philippines, Spain, Jordan, South...
Jesus Is Our True Leader
By Wayne Williams -- Well just déjà vu! With Pastor Jay’s departure, we are entering a new chapter in the life of Greater Portland Bible Church…again. We should be pretty good at new chapters by now, having had four of them in the last nine years, not counting several...
Learning Abroad
By Wayne Williams -- Strange. No one has yet asked me what I learned on our recent pastoral visit to a few of our Global Partners. I’ve volunteered a bit of what I learned to some, but here’s my chance to answer the un-asked question. I learned, first, that our Global...