Rudyard Kipling said it well: “Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right.” We can point our finger and makeup excuses, we can invent arguments and do anything else we want, but the key to the skeleton jingles in our pocket until we settle matters right.
Read MoreI want to remind you of the biblical story of Joseph. The Bible gives us many reasons why this patriarch could have been a very bitter man.
Read MoreMy friend, has anyone in your world really offended you? Has your spouse been unfaithful? Have your children disappointed you?
Read MoreThe lyric from rapper Jay-Z that says, “life starts when the church ends” typifies my early view of life and God. Life stopped at the doorway to church and restarted again on the way out each Sunday.
Read MoreIt is a common thing these days for people to say they like Jesus but not the church. That the church is full of hypocrites. And you know what?
Read MoreAs a parent of four sons, I remember how our parenting changed through the years. It was a gradual process of releasing control.
Read MoreI have heard many people say they couldn’t possibly believe in God. That it’s too farfetched.
Read MorePerhaps you’ve had a conversation with a cynical person before. “Prove that Jesus is God,” they say. “Prove that there is a God.
Read MoreOne of the first songs I learned as a child but struggled with later as an adult says “Yes, Jesus loves me; The Bible tells me so.” It’s a song so easily sung, but not so easily understood.
Read MoreJesus Christ didn’t just die on the cross. You know that, right?
Read MoreDo you want to reach your world? Great! Here’s a key step. You don’t have to be a genius to teach others about the cross.
Read MoreIn the midst of life’s battles it is easy to forget what God has done for you, to wander, and even to desert Him. You may have trusted Jesus when you were younger, but drifted away.
Read MoreAfter his coach told him what the Lord did for him on the cross, a player for the Seattle Seahawks trusted Jesus Christ as his Savior. Immediately afterward he asked, “Coach, teach me the fundamentals of Christianity.”
Read MoreAre you afraid to stand out? Jesus said, “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Read MoreI once heard a story told about Albert Einstein that he got tired of checking out churches because their God wasn’t the God that he saw in creation. The God he saw in the universe through his telescope was so big and grand.
Read MoreOver a hundred years ago, there was a missionary named A.W. Milne who went to New Hebrides to share the Good News with a tribe of headhunters. All former missionaries to this tribe had been killed by them.
Read MoreEducators often talk about the history of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Enlightenment refers to a time in the 18th century when science became more popular than religion.
Read MoreI’m amazed at what a mini flashlight can do when it’s dark. I have a mini flashlight on my keychain. It doesn’t look too impressive.
Read MoreAn immensely meaningful influence on my Dad’s young life was Mr. Charles Rogers, a church planter and evangelist. His wife, Mrs. Rogers, signed my Dad’s childhood autograph book.
Read MoreAfter my cancer diagnosis, I had to wrestle in a unique way with my own mortality, but in prayer and Scripture I found renewed hope and God’s amazing “peace that passes understanding,” as Philippians 4:7 says.
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