In Mark 16:20, the inspired record states of the apostles: “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following, Amen.” Today one can simply turn on the television and hear claims being made of “miracles” on every hand. It’s a wonder anyone is sick […]
The story is told of a boy who once lived with a badly disfigured face. As a result, there came many unkind remarks. One day the boy said to his mother, “Mom, I hate people.” Realizing he had become despondent, she took him to a canyon and told him to shout, “I hate you!”
A querist asks, “How can I know which books are properly part of the Bible and which aren’t?”
The proper spiritual training of our children is a God-assigned, individual responsibility assigned primarily to fathers that cannot be abdicated to anyone else. Fatherhood inherently imposes obligations to train children — whatever is entailed in Ephesians 6:4, cannot be shifted to someone
In the former Soviet Union, peasant farmers often enjoyed telling humorous stories to lighten their dreary lives. The following is such a story:
Not long ago, my wife and I decided to eat breakfast at one of our local restaurants, I wanted bacon instead of sausage, but the menu said “No substitutions.”
In the morally bankrupt society of Jeremiah’s day, God instructs the prophet to: “Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; see now and know; and seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth, and I will pardon her, though […]
Have we ever thought about the distance from God’s glorious throne down to the horrible cross of Calvary? What is the measure of our loving Savior’s love for us? In Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he described Jesus’ descent from the heights of glory to the depths of shame and agony and back again.
Too much of our writing, preaching, and visiting is directed to the weak and unfaithful. In this article, our intent is to reverse that order. This article is not addressed to you who have to be begged, petted, and pampered before you will attend all the services of the church, and still are absent as […]
Years ago, a man wrote to Dear Abby and asked, “Dear Abby: I am in love and am having an affair with two different women. I can’t marry them both. Please tell me what to do, but don’t give me any of that morality stuff” (source).
On the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Mt. Everest, a television newsman said that much of Hillary’s status as a hero in Nepal was “not about what he did when he stood on top of the world, but what he did when he came back down.” After conquering the world’s highest […]
When this writer gets up every weekday morning at 5:00 a.m., preparing myself to go to the workplace, I immediately start to fix myself a healthy breakfast consisting of fruit, eggs, turkey bacon (without any fat), whole wheat toast and orange juice. Research tells us that a healthy breakfast is the most important meal of […]
One of the reasons Paul was able to live as he lived, preached as he preached, and endured what he endured is found in 2 Corinthians 4:18 where he said, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are not seen […]
President James A. Garfield is quoted as saying, “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”
In one of his most famous speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King longed for his children to grow up in a world where they would be judged “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
There are athletes who have run in more than one marathon in less than two months. That level of fitness requires relentless, dedicated training.
If we’ve ever visited a cemetery, we know that death plays no favorites — the grim reaper’s sickle reaps the king on the throne as well as the slave working in the field. Death not only claims the elderly on the bed of pain and suffering, but takes a tragic toll
In farming or gardening, the productivity of seed is directly proportionate to the fertility of the soil it’s sown in. Even if
In the life of Jesus, the Pharisees and Sadducees would often seek to entrap Jesus with questions so as to destroy His influence as a teacher among the Jewish people. Matthew records one attempt to trap Him by the Pharisees (Matthew 22:15).
On the night of His betrayal, our Lord spoke the following words to His apostles: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides […]