Turning Our Backs on the World, Not God In two short months, we will once again memorialize the suffering and death of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We will rehearse the events of that Passover – washing each other’s feet, partaking of the bread and … [Read more...]

Lead a Horse to Water... A gritty old farmer once said, “You can lead a horse to water, but we all know what a wet horse smells like.” That last part was intended to say, “but you can’t make him drink.” Either way, the conclusion to leading a … [Read more...]

The Dichotomy I was recently presented with a dichotomy and I was not immediately sure how to respond. It involved concerns for the problems within this country – the moral depravity etc. -- and a view held by the same person that God’s law has … [Read more...]

Praying for Others Praying for others is a way of life for believers. The Apostle Paul, however, took the time to go beyond the obvious in that regard, “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of … [Read more...]

In Whom Do You Trust? The Prophet Jeremiah, through the Holy Spirit’s lead, had a good understanding of human nature (2 Peter 1:21). His classic statement about the deceitfulness and wickedness of the heart is insight not gained from the natural … [Read more...]

Glory In Trials Salvation through Christ does not mean that we will have a life free of trials. Rather, it is a guarantee that we will experience many of them. The Apostle Paul wrote, “And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made … [Read more...]

The 2024 Relationship Challenge Due to the natural proclivity of the human mind to focus inward on self, relationships in “the world” are deteriorating. Nations are turning inward as are the communities that form a nation. We see the emergence of … [Read more...]

How to be Tough News anchor Brian Kilmeade offered up a very interesting perspective recently. He began by referencing Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, who were contemporaries in time and in personal drive. Washington was born into … [Read more...]

Another “Secular” Abomination The word “abomination” is not in vogue today. It is not a part of the average person’s vocabulary. Yet it is used extensively in God’s word – the Bible. It expresses God’s loathing of something that destroys man’s … [Read more...]

Valuing God How much do we value God? Every day we are confronted with an array of attitudes, ideas and values that are the process of the thinking of the prince of the power of the air. Or, as the Apostle Paul wrote, “… whose minds the god of … [Read more...]