Are you satisfied? Are you satisfied with where you are in life? Are you satisfied with your relationship with God? And, if you are satisfied, is that good thing? Or is that a bag thing? Be careful  how you answer. Proverbs 14:14 states, “The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways.” What does that mean? A heart that is…

Do you have some clothes that…well…just don’t fit like they once did? Sometimes clothes just don’t fit right anymore. Have you ever borrowed someone else’s shoes and realized how very different feet are? Sometimes certain clothes fit other people better than they fit us. There is a piece of “clothing” that God tells every Christian, with urgency, to put on. It is…

You’ve heard of “unanswered prayers,” right? The idea is: (1) “I asked God for this.” (2) “I didn’t get it.” (3) “It’s an unanswered prayer.” Of course, such an approach severely limits God to only see, desire and give us what we want. An answer of “Yes,” then, is the only acceptable response for some, but we must realize that God sometimes…

Near the end of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” when Frodo Baggins had nearly completed his task of carrying the One Ring into Mordor, he collapsed from sheer exhaustion. He could not go on. His friend, Samwise “Sam” Gamgee, tried to urge him to finish the journey, but Frodo seemed to have lost the strength to reach…

Do you think the stripes in a parking lot are important? Some folks who have trouble parking straight might suggest removing them to make parking easier. Do you know when a parking lot is most chaotic? It’s when there are no stripes. Without stripes to designate where to park, drivers park anywhere and in any way they choose. Oftentimes, fewer cars are…

A man stood behind the podium and led the congregation in prayer during the morning worship assembly. There was nothing unusual about his prayer. It was truly worshipful in every way. But, there was something about the way he said a certain phrase that made it stick. Again, the phrase was not anything new. But, he gave it a little added emphasis…

As Paul was explaining how the wisdom of man is inferior to the wisdom of God and how man needed to seek his fulfillment in Christ, he observed that “Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified” (1 Cor. 1:22-23). Then, he showed them that what they were seeking could only be found in what he…

The church of our Lord was purchased with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. It has as its primary purpose the salvation of souls–reaching out to the lost who have never obeyed Christ, and exhorting those who have obeyed to serve Christ lovingly, energetically and faithfully. Those who are in the body of Christ have the responsibility to guard and protect it,…