The story is told of a farmer who one day decided to plow the south forty acres in his field. However, his tractor needed oil, so he started for the barn to get it, but on the way, he noticed that the pigs

According to the Ecclesiastes writer, there is a proper time for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). There is also a time to move and a time to “stand still.” The Israelites moved out of Egypt, as far as the Red Sea, only to become frightened when it appeared Pharaoh’s army

After 30 years as a preacher of God’s Word, a New Jersey minister concluded, “The Bible is the best-selling, least-read, and least-understood book in the world.” In his view and experience, “Biblical illiteracy is rampant.”

All of Jerusalem was disturbed (Acts 21:30). Paul has been seized, dragged out of the temple, almost beaten to death, and falsely charged with desecrating the temple (Acts 21:30-32). Of interest, when he was finally allowed to defend himself, he talked about — of all things — his conversion. He spoke of: 1) His “education” […]

The following story is from the McGuffey Readers, used in American school systems in the 19th and 20th century. We can easily see the application drawn from the story — there is power in numbers: A man had seven sons who were always quarreling. They left their studies and work to quarrel among themselves. Some bad men […]

When God created man out of the dust of the earth, He created a living, breathing being capable of thinking, feeling, dreaming, loving, and living forever (Genesis 2:7;

The national media reported earlier this year that Olivia Goldsmith, author of the popular book, The First Wives Club (which became a film starring Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler), died from complications resulting from cosmetic surgery. According to the Associated Press, the 54-year-old novelist suffered a heart attack due to anesthesia she received during an […]

Have you ever wished for a personal conversation with the Lord? Not like the kind we have in prayer….that can be fairly one-sided; but a real sit-down complete with Q & A?  What would you ask? What do you want to know; and more over, what do you really need to hear?

A true Bible student comes to appreciate the book of Romans all the more with the passing of time. The appreciation is rooted in an understanding of Paul’s message, which message is not understood by the larger portion of the religious world. The very fact that throughout denominationalism the teaching prevails that men are justified […]

Have we ever wanted to write a book? It’s certainly a worthy goal, but it’s better to “be a book” than it is to write one. The apostle Paul believed it was better to “be a book” when he penned these inspired words:

The Church is not made up of people who believe they are better than others, but rather it is made up of those who realize that they should be better than they are and must continually strive to do better (Philippians 3:12-16). The Church is not made up of perfect people, but people who realize […]

Several times in my life, I’ve had the experience of looking at a total lunar eclipse. Even though it is a natural event, it is also a phenomenal glimpse at the power and glory of God.

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 […]

Our fellow Christians constitute one of the most cherished blessings we enjoy in the Lord. Our Lord’s promise of an hundredfold abundance of “brothers and sisters and mothers and children” to those who forsake the attachments of the world for His sake and the gospel’s (Mark 10:29-30 – ESV), is fulfilled in the brothers and […]

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 […]

Recently, I have received several questions from our web site on the subject of discouragement. One person writes, “I am an evangelist but I feel let down, not wanted?” Another writes, “I am really confused right now. Everybody I ask is going to give me a different answer and I don’t know which one is […]

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

The word “offence” is used in the KJV of the Bible in one form or another some 73 different times. Out of those occurrences, 23 are found in the Old Testament and 50 in the New Testament. In the New Testament, the vast majority of these instances are from a word which means to cause […]

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