Why did God put the stories of Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Joshua and David in the Bible? We might think that they are there to honor and indelibly publicize those Bible heroes for what they did. That could be, but it’s not the prime reason. We might think that they were there for children to have bedtime stories. That could be, but it’s not the prime reason.…

These are frustrating times! Our lives have been turned inside out and upside down, in some respects. People on television and the internet seem bent on stirring us up to fear inside and angry hatred on the outside. Perhaps you have noticed a change in your attitude. Are you less joyful? Less optimistic? Less pleasant to be around? Are you more irritable? More easily frustrated? More susceptible to lose your temper…

When you are provided with an “excused absence,” how do you respond? If someone is given an excused absence from school or work, they might rejoice and wish for more. But, if you were given an “excused absence” from assembling with the church to worship God, how would you respond? Would you respond in the same way as receiving an excused absence from school or…

We are living in a time when so many things are being cancelled—sporting events, church events, political events, school events, etc. Is it possible that we have allowed the cancelling of so much around us to cause us to cancel our daily actions as a Christian? Is there any reason that our conduct as a child of God should have taken a break during…

Some people wonder today how long God is going to allow the earth to still stand. Some people wonder why God hasn’t destroyed America yet. Some people wonder how long the patience of God can hold out while sin is running rampant all over the globe. In Genesis 6, “the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and…

The very folks who should have been expecting the coming of Christ and welcomed Him with open arms into their lives and into their homes actually rejected Him. However, it is interesting to see the response that some Gentiles had to our Savior.  In Luke 7, a Gentile centurion “heard about Jesus” and pleaded “with Him to come and heal his servant” (7:3). When…

God is all-powerful! When it came to His creation, He could have created you/me/us/mankind in any image that He wanted! He could have made us in the image of the llama or the monkey. But, He didn’t! He could have made everyone in the image of Shaquille O’Neal or Jennifer Lopez. But, He didn’t! He could have made everyone in the image of your second-grade teacher or your…

Dear fellow Christian, is it really Christ-like to share something on social media but to make a disclaimer about its sinful content? Sometimes we see a video or meme and think it really conveys a message dear to us in an effective manner, but we think that saying, “Pardon the language,” exonerates us from sharing un-Christlike speech. Would that also work and be…