Have we ever manipulated our bathroom scale in a self-satisfying manner because we weigh too much? The little adjustment knob on the scale serves to vary the register, and if that becomes too much bother, we can lean a certain way. The whole idea is to get a favorable reading — hopefully one that reads a […]
Readers of the classic comic strip Peanuts will recall Snoopy’s innumerable attempts to write a novel — which always began with the same sentence, “It was a dark and stormy night.” In all the years that the late Charles M. Schulz drew the strip, Snoopy never finished writing that book, or even progressed very far […]
The 1959 William Wyler film, Ben-Hur, tells the moving story of a Jewish aristocrat (Ben-Hur) betrayed by his best friend (Messala), and condemned to serve as a galley slave in the Roman navy. On a forced march to the ship, Judah Ben-Hur meets Jesus of Nazareth, who not only gives
French writer, historian and philosopher, François-Marie Arouet, (pen name, Voltaire – see article) once stated, “Common sense is not so common” — and his assessment was exactly right! In a society that has grown increasingly lawsuit conscious, we are inundated with warnings on various products, mostly because many folks just lack simple common sense.
The inspired apostle Paul told the brethren at Rome that we are “more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37-NKJV), and that
A querist asks, “In Acts 8:26, it says that the area where Philip met the Ethiopian eunuch was desert. My question is, If the area was desert, how could there have been enough
The AP reported a man by the name of Joseph Stack from Austin, Texas, flew his small aircraft into the IRS building in
If a yard is left unattended for several weeks, isn’t it amazing how quickly weeds spring up and take over? Somehow, weeds don’t need tending “” they seem to love to sprout up
An explanation we often hear for unanswered prayers is that the person praying did not have enough faith. But Jesus said in Luke 17:6 that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed, we can command a mulberry tree to be uprooted and planted in the sea and it will obey us. In […]
Joshua, a precocious 2-year-old, watched his mother baking cookies. “Please, may I have one?” he asked hopefully. “Not before supper,” his mother replied. Joshua ran tearfully to his room, then reappeared with this message: “Jesus just told me it’s okay to have a cookie now.” “Jesus didn’t tell me!” his mother retorted, to which Joshua […]
We have the most amazing view from our sunroom. I love the sunrise as we begin a new day; the glow of the city lights at night and the orange and purple sunsets. The moon is amazing and I do believe I can see a man up there smiling at me! Everything outdoors seems so very much alive. […]
A doctor once told a patient, “If you do not have a sense of humor, you’ll have to take medicine.” In front of him was a Bible that was opened to Proverbs 17:22: “A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.“
A querist asks, In Acts 26:28, was Agrippa partially convinced or was he being sarcastic? The Greek in question is “en oligos.” Some translate this as “in a short time” while others translate this as “almost.”
Have we ever thought how we honor God in our everyday living? In this short study, let’s list some biblical ways in which we may properly honor God:
In the book of Isaiah, we read of the nation of Israel badly needing a reliable Global Positioning System (GPS) so they would know which direction they were going (cf. Isaiah 1:1-15). God wanted to be their
The following poem is a reminder for each of us to be aware of “what” words we use and “how” we use them. They just might come back to haunt us (Matthew 12:34-37; cf. Psalm 32:9; Psalm 39:1; Proverbs 13:3; Proverbs 21:23).
When we think of malpractice, we immediately think of a physician’s dereliction of duty with regard to the practice
7) Prophecies implying establishment of the church – There are a number of prophecies concerning the Messiah, heaven’s King, which, though there is no actual
From his blog, Brother Chris McCurley, preacher for the Oldlam Lane congregation in Abilene, Texas, posted the following cowboy poem. It emphasizes our need for daily prayer (Daniel 6:10; cf. Psalm 55:17; Luke 18:1; Romans 12:12; Ephesians 6:18; Colossians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17) — not praying just when we get in trouble:
In 1 Samuel 18:5; 1 Samuel 18:14-15 and 1 Samuel 18:30, the writer tells us that David “behaved wisely.” In fact, he behaved “more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed” (1 Samuel 18:30).