May 4, 2023 Called To Service After the revival ended, that warm, moonlit night at Plumbline United Holy Church, situated deep in the countryside on the outskirts of Enfield, N.C., my brother Griffin and I, along with our dad and mom, made our way to the car. The unpaved parking lot was filled with cars. …
April 27, 2023 Long Distance Faith Standing in the pulpit, presiding at the 77th anniversary of Royal Light Church of Deliverance in Tillery, N. C. last Sunday afternoon was one of the greatest honors of my life. The theme for the service was, “Standing on the Promises of God.” I reflected mentally upon my roots in that …
April 20, 2023 “Two Questions” Two Questions Three bad decisions (I won’t go into them here) by three different individuals, Sarai, Abraham, and Hagar, in Verses 2-4 of Genesis 16, led to Hagar, a young female servant, being alone in the wilderness and undoubtedly, in a state of deep depression. But suddenly, she had a theophany …
April 13, 2023 Enduring Love Happy 51st anniversary to our beloved Bishop and Co-Pastor! I know their anniversary is later this month. So, I’m a little early, but what a marvelous and graceful model they are for married couples everywhere! And what an inspiring example of the power of enduring love! What if all of us, each …
March 30, 2023 “Sin is Sin, Don’t Care Who it’s in!” As ministers and other exponents of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, do we share what we think, what we feel will not offend, and what we believe people want to hear, or do we give people what God says? Few sermons are about sin. Almost no …
April 4, 2023 Blog Post Happy Holy Week! As the angels cried to one another in Isaiah 6:3, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!” What follows may not seem like a Holy Week message, but it is what God gave me to share for this week. As …
March 16, 2023 Happy 77th Birthday to our beloved senior pastor, Bishop Owens! We heard you clearly at the Joint College of Pentecostal Bishops Wednesday night! “I Am Still Optimistic About the Church!!!!” The church my grandfather, Pastor Freeland Grandford Sumner, Sr., founded, met in our family’s living room on second Sundays before it had a …
March 23, 2023 “Come Out Here to Stay!” If this were not an assignment from the LORD, I would surely not do it. I had no idea, as is often the case, what I would write today. After praying and asking God what to write He gave me this. I pray that it blesses …