Have you ever heard someone (or maybe it was you) respond to the Bible’s requirement of baptism, “Well, that just doesn’t make any sense! How can that have anything to do with being saved? So, you’re saying that if I’m not baptized that I will still be lost? I can’t accept that”? For just a moment, consider if the blind man in…

This is not about a Flea Market, but maybe that homophone will be a memory trigger – helping us to think about “Flee! Mark It!” whenever we see or hear about a Flea Market. The efforts of the devil are abundant and come at you (seemingly) from every direction. He attacks when you expect that he will, and he attacks often times…

The heading to Psalm 34 suggests the time of the writing was after David fled from King Saul and sought refuge with Achish, king of Gath. When that king was ready to kill David, he acted like a wild man and pretended insanity by scratching on the doors at the gates of the king’s palace and letting saliva fall down his beard.…

“I deserve to be happy.” “It’s not fair for me to be stuck in this marriage.” “I can’t believe God would punish me and want me to be single for the rest of my life.” People have all sorts of different views of marriage and the “rights” that they feel they have regarding their marriage. What an interesting thought, then, to consider…

One of my favorite Disney movie scenes of all time is in the Lion King, when Simba was having a hard time acknowledging and accepting where he came from and who he was. A “strange baboon” named Rafiki befriended him and surprisingly knew  Simba’s identity — “You’re Mufasa’s boy!” During that scene, his father, Mufasa, appeared to him, encouraged him and pleaded…

On January 22, 1973, the course of this nation was altered forever when the highest court in the land ruled it was constitutional (i.e., Roe v. Wade) to rip unborn babies from their mothers’ wombs, crush their bodies and throw them in the dumpster. (I’m certain that was not the exact wording in the court’s decision, but that was the result.) As…

Earlier this week in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, a teacher was fired because he had answered a student’s question about the Bible and then gave the student (who said he did not have a Bible of his own) his personal copy of the New Testament. Can you believe what is happening in this nation? A teacher can tell a student that he came…

Have you looked at your car lately? Really looked at it? How does it compare now to when it was new? Look at the headlights–do they still sparkle in the sun, or are they dingy? Look at the paint–do the metallic flakes still glitter across the hood, finders and doors, or is it dingy? After a while, every possession we have, including…