Author: Pastor Sam

Pastor Sam has served at Faith Baptist Church since 2013 with his wife Sarah. Pastor Sam is an avid kayaker and enjoys sports of all kinds. His favorite teams are THE Iowa State Cyclones (it is a Cyclone state), The Minnesota Vikings, and The Chicago Cubs. Pastor Sam completed an intense pastoral internship at Hagerman Baptist Church and served as a chaplain at Heritage Care Center in Iowa Falls, Iowa before accepting the call to pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Hudson, Iowa. He loves people and his goal is to make disciples of Christ by personally, prayerfully, and persistently investing the Word of God into others.

Emanuel Cleaver: A Man Destined for Hell

January 3, 2020 marked the opening day of the 117th Congress for the House of Representatives and as is customary they were opened with a prayer. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) gave the prayer. This makes sense since he is an ordained Methodist minister and served as pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas... Continue Reading →

January 4, 2021 4

Lessons From a Christmas Carol: The Mortality of Man

In the classic story of A Christmas Carol we find the main character Ebenezer Scrooge was a man in desperate need of redemption. He starts off as… well… a Scrooge. His position towards Christmas is begrudging at best and includes several humbugs. He is a miserable man who is completely self-absorbed and has no charity... Continue Reading →

December 14, 2020 0

The Tentacles of the Tyrant

In the United States tyranny is upon us. We have seen our rights come under great scrutiny for our own safety, as William Pitt said, “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” Through the pleas of safety, or necessity, our... Continue Reading →

December 6, 2020 0

Lessons From A Christmas Carol: Ignorance and Want

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is every Christmas Eve at my wife’s parents we end our festivities by watching one of the renditions of A Christmas Carol. I must admit I was not impressed with this tradition when I was first introduced to it because I was not overly familiar with the movie or the book.... Continue Reading →

November 30, 2020 0

Do Masks Actually Work?

1Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. Do masks really work to slow the spread of COVID? This is the question I will be exploring today. In truth if you are reading this, chances are, you already have... Continue Reading →

November 28, 2020 0

Grace and Truth

Recently I was in a discussion with a pastor who presented the idea that there is a tension between grace and truth. Within the discussion there was a presentation that both him and I are similar in that we naturally bend towards truth in this tension and so we must lean hard towards grace in... Continue Reading →

November 13, 2020 1