Join Pastor John for a Daily Devotional "For Such A Time As This" Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church Members and Friends, Hope this finds you well on this Wednesday,March 18. Things continue to happen in the world, and I am sure things are happening in your household even as you receive this message.The Coronavirus h...

From the Pastor Note:At this time, we are planning to hold all worship services as normally scheduled. Please watch for e-mails, Facebook page or check the church telephone worship schedule for any updates to this information. I remember the old TVcommercial, "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie-Roll center of a Tootsie-Pop?"Thecommercialshows a boy on a qu...

From the Pastor Pride.Is there any other sin which causes more wars, more estrangement from family and friends, -- and a greater separation from God?Pride is the sin which stands behind Hitler's Holocaust, gang wars in Los Angeles, and violence in the Middle East.Pride causes people to believe that they are inherently superior to other people, -- who happen to ALSO be cre...

From the Pastor Someone has said that Satan is like a burglar running down the hallway of a hotel, trying all the doors to see which are unlocked.The seven deadly sins are those doors we most often leave unlocked.I sometimes think that we not only leave the door unlocked, but we also put a sign out reading, "Come on in!"Unfortunately, this is our undoing.Jesus put it th...

Someone has said that half the sins we commit are out of fear of being bored.If you read in between the lines of the story of the prodigal son, you sense what drove him into the far country may have been a terminal case of the blahs.He may have been thinking, "I can't stand getting up early one more morning!""I can't face milking another cow!"I can't plant one more ear of ...

From the Pastor Having Valentine's Day occur this week, I thought I would share a story that I heard.One day a little boy named Chad told hismother, "Mom, I want to make a valentinefor every member of my class at school."Chad's mom was crestfallen because sheknew that her little boy was quiet and shyand didn't have any friends in his class.Every day she would look out t...

From the Pastor What would you do for $10,000,000?If you knew that dangling at the end would be 10 million dollars, how far would you go?That very question was the premise for a book that came out a few years ago, "The Day America Told the Truth!"For example, you may be shocked to discover that 25 percent of Americans said they would abandon all their friends for $10,00...

From the Pastor "With A Little Help from My Friends" In the old TV show,"The Wonder Years,"the theme song begins with Joe Cocker singing,"What would you think if I sang out of tune?Would you stand up and walk out on me?Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,I will try not to sing out of key.Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends. All I need is my buddies ....

From the Pastor In that wonderful movie,"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,"Jack Nicholson stars as Randall P. McMurphy, the ringleader of a bunch of trouble-makers in an insane asylum.In one scene, he springs them out, and they all go down to the pier and are about to charter a luxury cruiser, when a guard comes charging out of the gate shack and yells, "Who are you?"And w...

From the Pastor In an old Peanuts cartoons, Lucy observes, "Charlie Brown, life is like a deck chair.""Like a what?""Haven't you ever been on a cruise ship, Charlie Brown?Passengers open up these canvas deck chairs so they can sit in the sun. Some people place their chairs facing the rear of the ship so they can see where they've been.Other people face their chairs forwar...