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The Heart of a Pharisee

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Pastor’s Pen, This Sunday: The Heart of a Pharisee                                                                                        Mark 7:1-37 If you want to make a Bible believing Christian mad, just call him or her a Pharisee! Our concept of Pharisees is that they are all bad. Yet in the New Testament era they were considered the good guys. They were guardians of the law, believed in the resurrection, and professed to keep all the commandments. If the Pharisees were among Jesus bitterest enemies! Why? Because unlike our Savior they were committed to…tradition. The heart of Pharisee-ism is it substitution of man's tradition for God's Word, and its stress on external conformity rather than internal reality. Him ***** We appreciate those who help sanitize our facilities for services each Saturday morning in preparation for Sunday worship as well as those who make it possible for us to ‘live-stream’ on Facebook at 10:45 each Sunday morning, and to post each Sunday’s messag