At one time or another, we’ve all experienced them, or at least listened to other people talk about them — the blues. Times of dark discouragement and despair. However there’s

The Psalmist in Psalm 93, declares that trouble sometimes comes to us in relentless waves that surge and pound against our souls and break upon them with furious force.

Most people consider meekness to be weakness. In a world dominated by the strong — ruthless dictators, callous drug traffickers, and powerful corporate leaders — no one wants to be classified as the “wimp” everyone takes advantage of. But is that the biblical concept of meekness?

The saying, “You can never outgive God” may be doubted by miserly people, but the inspired writer Paul fully supports this saying. Having just received their generous gifts

The story is told of a little boy with a big and compassionate heart. His next-door neighbor was an elderly man whose wife had recently died. When the youngster saw the elderly man crying, he simply climbed up onto his

A father was reading a bedtime story to his young daughter, as he did almost every night before she went to sleep. She had chosen a zoo book, and to her active imagination, it was as if she and her father were actually there at the zoo.

The prophet Habakkuk was awaiting the destruction of his country (Judah) by the ruthless Chaldeans, whose army was called by God to punish His people for their disobedient and evil ways (Habakkuk 1:5-6). Through faith in the Lord he stated:

What we do with the Bible depends on what we do with the first sentence in Genesis Chapter 1. The sentence begins with this simple statement: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). If we believe that statement, we can believe everything else that follows. If we reject that statement, […]

The story is told of a man who once got in trouble for helping someone. Because he had been raised in a rural area, he was in the habit of stopping to assist troubled motorists.

All of us hopefully have at least one or more close friends. A small boy once defined a friend as “someone who knows all about you and likes you just the same.” American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once wrote: “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” Author Henry Durbanville made

A querist asks, “In Genesis 2:15 – KJV, the text reads: ‘And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.’ What does the

It was a summer morning, and the first rays of sun were falling across my garden. The prior evening the leaves on the tender okra were drooping from intense heat and lack of

We could call today’s generation “crooked and perverse,” just as Paul described his own generation in Philippians 2:15. Even Moses would have understood what Paul was

One of life’s most distressing experiences, is being separated from the things and the people we love. It is often difficult to leave a house that holds many pleasant memories,

In a 1999 CNN article, technology experts reported that computer keyboards and other electronic devices would become obsolete as more functions would become

While recently looking at a NASA website, I read where astronomers have discovered what they call “the largest structure in the observable universe.” It occupies an area in the night sky about 40 times that of the full moon as seen from earth. This supercluster includes at

When it rains, most people go inside to avoid getting wet. But I can remember many a summer day here in Texas when folks would run outside their homes to stand in a

The infamous 19th-century feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys started with a fight over a razorback hog. It turned into a vendetta that continued unabated for several

The story is told of a surgeon who had to sever a nerve that controlled the muscles of a young woman’s mouth in order to remove a tumor.

In today’s world of cell phones and speed dialing, our inability to remember may be caused by our reliance on these technological “gadgets.” Before the days of these