So many of us complain that we don’t have time to do the things that we really need to do or really want to do. We wish that we could have more than 24 hours in a day or more than 7 days in a week. Well, guess what? God has given you a whole extra day this year! Today is February…

Temper, temper, temper. Do you have one? We all do, to one degree or another. How are you doing at “reigning it in”? The Lord’s commands are clear: “Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath” (Jas. 1:19). “Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry” (Ecc. 7:9). Controlling the temper is vital! “He who is…

Road construction. It’s one of our favorite things, isn’t it? When visiting other cities, many times a local will say, “This stretch of highway has been under construction for as long as I can remember!” And then there’s building construction. New apartments, homes and businesses are going up all over town. It seems wherever you go there is a perpetual state of construction.…

As He prepared to feed five thousand men, Jesus “looked up to heaven” (Mark 6:41). Think about that action, that posture, and its purpose. Looking up. When Jesus came to Bethsaida in Mark 8, He put His hands on a blind man, and the man “looked up” (8:24-25). It may seem simple, but again, think about that action of looking up. How…

Did you see the Super Bowl commercial of a soon-to-be dad eating a bag of Doritos, while an ultrasound was being performed on his unborn child? The commercial showed the unborn child reaching for the Doritos in whatever direction the dad moved his hand. Well, wouldn’t you know it, somebody didn’t like the ad. Specifically, a pro-choice group called NARAL tweeted that the…

A friend of mine was going through a series of very difficult trials, and the troubles seemed to keep piling higher and higher. Like many of us who have been challenged by the adversities of life, this fellow Christian dispiritedly texted, “I’m not strong enough for this,” but probably did not anticipate the response that began, “You’re right! YOU are not!” How many…

When properly applied, the action of “rebuke” involves one, who is in a position of authority, severely censuring another. The Greek word for “rebuke” (epitimao) is found in 29 verses of the New Testament, and interestingly, 27 of the 29 verses are in Matthew, Mark and Luke. The Bible tells us that Jesus “rebuked the wind” (Luke 8:24). Isn’t that a cool…

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a big word. 28 letters. That’s pretty big! Have you heard of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis? It is supposedly a lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. 45 letters. That’s really big! But the 3-letter word “and” is even bigger! “And” is a coordinating conjunction, which is a part of speech that grammatically joins parts of a sentence that are equal (in importance…