Blog: FOREST LAKE TALKS

Dear Friends, I heard a story this week from a new member of FLPC whose son and his new wife were not able to come home this Thanksgiving. She is a Marine, and he is an ER Nurse. They could not come home this Thanksgiving because they both had to...

Dear Friends, When I became the senior pastor of FLPC in August of 2006, I found a folder marked “Community Thanksgiving Service.” That folder documents that in 1987, Tree of Life Synagogue hosted the first Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, and Forest Lake Presbyterian Church provided the preacher. It doesn’t say who...

Dear Friends, In 1954, Congress approved an amendment, proposed by then senator Lyndon B. Johnson, to prohibit 501(c)(3) organizations from engaging in any political activity, particularly as it relates to campaigning for or against any particular candidate for political office. The Johnson Amendment, as it is now known, has prohibited...

Dear Friends, I was behind a car the other day sporting a bumper sticker that said, “It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship.” I could not agree more. The older I get the more I realize that God is not after our outward show and habits. God wants our whole...