Peter tells us that Lot was oppressed by the sinfulness around him when living in the area of Sodom and Gomorrah. This “righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds” (2 Pet. 2:7-8). It is likely that we feel the weight of torment by the lawless deeds of the ungodly all around…

Have you ever had a doctor or nurse ask you, “On a scale of 1 to 10, what’s your pain level?”  Imagine if someone asked Jesus that question.  What would His “pain level” have been in His last hours? We think about Jesus’ agony in Gethsemane, His mistreatment in the trials, the vicious Roman scourging and His excruciating crucifixion.  The pain that…

The words of Paul so vividly describe heaven’s view of how we should respond after we have given our lives to God. He talks about the fact that Christ “…gave Himself for us, that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous of good works” (Tit. 2:14). We are special to Him, and…

Picture your worst possible day working out in your yard.  It is 127 degrees out there (well, it feels like it) and you have been sweating profusely.  As you were cutting your grass, the wind intentionally changed directions every time you turned and it blew all of the grass trimmings all over your sweat-drenched body.  But, of course, your yard has as…

I have been amazed over the years at how simple God has made eternal truths to every man who deeply longs to find the meaning of all that God has said. One of the major problems is that we come to the Bible with preconceived ideas and wrong conclusions which have come from those who have used pamphlets, books, radio, television, campaigns…

We are quick to defend our rights when we feel they have been infringed. We have more rights than most in this country, but do we have the right to be wrong? We have a civil right to be wrong. God has given us free will to be wrong. A question might be, do we have the right to be wrong and…

Have you ever been reading the Bible and something just jumps out at you? Perhaps it was a familiar passage or lesser known, but the truth it taught in that moment had an impact. This happened to me recently with a fairly well-known passage. I’d like to share this with you and talk about the implications. The first part of this verse…

Have you ever had one of those crushing migraines that just would not subside?  The only thing you could do was lay down in a dark room and wait it out.  What if you never had to suffer the pain of a migraine again? Have you ever had one of those toothaches that felt like half of your face was going to…