My family used to love watching “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” but we stopped because almost every member of every family (who was given a newly-built, custom-designed home) could not express themselves without saying over and over, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” That seems to be the favorite exclamation today of “religious” and “non-religious” people alike. The name of God is holy…

Have you ever been at a point in your life when you thought that the whole world was against you and that everyone had deserted you?  Perhaps you’ve experienced friends turning away from you and even family members distancing themselves, yet when your parents were alive, they were/are the steady and reliable foundation to whom you knew you could turn when there…

Brother Lloyd O. Sanderson was converted to Christ in 1922, and at first, he thought that giving his life to Christ was going to cause him great trouble, grief and sacrifice. Later Sanderson reflected, “I decided [after becoming a Christian] that I had been wonderfully blessed. With this feeling, I wrote [the song] ‘The Lord Has Been Mindful of Me.’” Sanderson recognized…

The words of an enlightened soul: “I grew up thinking that I needed to be at church three times a week for two Bible classes and two worship services. For years that just seemed normal and I felt guilty if I ever missed. Then, I started feeling confined and almost like I was being forced, against what I wanted, to be there…

There may be some words in English that can be somewhat vague in their understanding and application – like “good” or “sincere” or even “devoted.” However, when it comes to the word “integrity,” there is nothing ambiguous about it! Being “a person of integrity” is one of the highest compliments one can receive. The word means “firm adherence to a code of…

The account of the life of Enoch in Scripture is rather short, yet there are tremendous lessons to be learned from this man who walked with God. Consider one lesson from Hebrews 11:5. “By faith Enoch was taken away…and was not found, because God had taken him…” Three things: Enoch was with God; Enoch was taken away by God; somebody (or several…

Clarence H. Woolston penned the simple lyrics 99 years ago, but they remain ever-true and are especially meaningful and heart-tugging under certain circumstances. Meditate on them in a fresh way today: “Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, All are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.”…

Have you ever had a thought in your head that was just so overwhelming and thrilling that you could not help but repeat it and repeat it? That seems to be what happened to the psalmist in Psalm 118. While not quite to the level of Psalm 136 (where the psalmist repeated this same phrase 26 times), we read five times in…