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 […]

There is in the Lord’s church a growing number of individuals who are seeking to change the practices that we find in the scriptures to conform to a more denominational perspective. These are departing from the teaching that is found in the Bible regarding salvation, worship, the church, and Christian living. It is good for […]

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 […]

In Joshua 7-NKJV, we read of the tragic story of Achan. Against God’s command, Achan took some of the spoils of

Identity theft is a big problem in our age of credit cards and the Internet. It”™s not difficult for someone to retrieve our vital information and pose as us. If that were to happen,

Like a lot of other things in our society, our standard of language has declined in recent years, but we don’t have to decline with it. As we strive to be “very careful .… how [we] live” (Ephesians 5:15 NIV), we should think about how to honor God with our words. We please the Lord […]

How important is it for children to heed their parents’ instruction? It could be the “difference” between heaven and hell. As parents, we have been blessed with some of the most precious gifts from God (Psalm 127:3-5; cf. Genesis 33:5). May we never take them for granted and may we ever

Enemies come in all different shapes and sizes. There are physical enemies who seek to take our lives. There are enemies in the business world who would destroy our way of earning a living. There are enemies within families when close bonds have been severed due to a “falling out.” And, there are spiritual enemies […]