The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.—Proverbs 21:5   In a fast paced world where we often try to see how many things we can “multi-task” at a time, it’s easy to forget the importance of spending real...

My father was not raised in church. When he was in his early 20’s, someone invited him to a church service. As a result of being invited to church, Jesus changed his life forever. My dad got saved that night, ended up going to a Baptist college and met his...

A new Gallup survey reports that for the first time in American history, church membership nationwide has dropped below 50 percent.  This past year has been a challenging one for pastors and churches. Although there are multiple factors that have contributed to decreased church attendance and membership, the Covid-19 pandemic has...

The tom-toms thumped straight on all night and the darkness shuddered round me like a living, feeling thing. I could not go to sleep, so I lay awake and looked; and I saw, as it seemed, this: That I stood on a grassy sward, and at my feet a precipice...

It’s hard to read James 1:27 and see it meaning anything less than exercising compassion toward those in need: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”  Christians throughout history...

GOD MUST HAVE FIRST PLACE IN OUR LIVES Let me make it very clear at the beginning of this article: the Ten Commandments were not given to provide man with righteousness, happiness, holiness, or blessedness (salvation). A righteous standing before God has always been by faith, through the shed blood of...

3 ASPECTS OF THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE It’s a question I have heard frequently—perhaps daily—for over ten months: “When is life going to get back to normal?” Sometimes it takes other forms: “Will things ever get back to normal?” “Is this going to be the new normal?” The civil unrest...

Visualize a large manufacturing plant in your town or city that produces shoes. The management has invested great sums of money and many man-hours into the plant to produce the finest shoes possible. Money has been spent on salaries for the employees, machinery for shoemaking, and materials from which the...

Fulfilling. Consuming. Exciting. Challenging. Parenting is all of this, and more. And it is one of the greatest privileges of my life. The Lord gave Terrie and me four children who are now married and all serving the Lord with their spouses and are raising our eleven grandchildren for the...

A RIGHT SPIRIT IS ESSENTIAL TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH “He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.”—Proverbs 25:28 The picture here is intriguing. A city broken down and without walls is open to attack. It is vulnerable to the...