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T OGETHER—what a wonderful word! Webster defines it, “with each other, in company, with united action and cooperation.”The people of Israel had stopped working together for God. Their sense of togetherness and sacrifice was gone. Then, God spoke to them: ...
D O YOU KNOW PEOPLE in whom you sense the sweet Spirit of God in the first minutes of conversation? Gerry and Barb Dupuis fit that description. They are vocational clinical chaplains whose testimony conveys the tranquility they find in ...
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I NTERCESSORY PRAYER is the bridge between lostness and salvation. Some believe that anyone can come to Christ anytime—no intercessory bridge is necessary. Reject Christ today, accept Him tomorrow. The sinner decides. We increasingly feel our intervention is inappropriate, our ...
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W WE ARE AT A MOMENT in this nation where common sense seems to be gasping for its last breath. • A major USA news network announces that parents are raising “theybies” to let kids decide their gender. • In ...
W HAT ARE YOU DOING with your hands? Our hands are among the most used parts of our bodies. We probably don’t realize how dependent on them we are since most daily tasks are engaged without much thought. But their ...
I N CASE YOU haven’t noticed, the world has changed. As I write this article, I’m sitting in a coffee shop sipping on a $6 skinny vanilla latte, extra hot, because that’s what the cool hip pastors do these days. ...
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I N JESUS’ PARABLE of the Good Samaritan, apparently there were no signs like “Danger: Thieves Ahead” posted along the Jericho road, but the dangers of this trail were well known. Yet, the Jewish man in the parable undertook the ...
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R EPROBATION, as a Christian doctrine, is when a sinner’s heart is so hardened they feel no remorse for what is vile and unnatural. The English word reprobate comes from the Latin reprobatus (“reproved” or “condemned”), which is the opposite ...
How did you become a Christian? In 1969, Ruth Anderson and Kathy Stafford knocked on our door. They were two ladies involved in the bus ministry, and they asked my sister and me if we would like to go to ...
B AAL. He appears throughout Scripture, in one form or another, 130 times, and is the constant enemy of God’s people. Something about Baal intrigued God’s people, and he was a constant thorn in their side. For one reason or ...
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T HERE IS BEAUTY and power in the ability to express eternal truths in a way that is familiar and common. However, what is familiar to one person may be foreign to another; and what is common to some may ...
J AMES JESUS ANGLETON, the founding director of the CIA, once called espionage a “wilderness of mirrors.” If that is true of spy work, it is no less true of Christian race relations today. During June 2020, many major U.S. ...
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F ROM COMPETITIVE SHOWS such as American Idol and Survivor to life-under-the-lens shows such as Hoarders, there are hundreds of reality programs on television. The problem with such programming is, for the majority of us, this is not reality. Most ...
I WAS BROKEN. I remember the very moment I started to come to the end of myself. I say “started” because the journey through the most sorrow-filled and spiritually dry season of my life began in this moment in 1994. ...
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O N THE ROLLING HILLS overlooking the Sea of Galilee and the little village of Capernaum, Jesus stood among a growing crowd and delivered His greatest message. Probably taking no more than 20 minutes, Jesus delivered His “Sermon on the ...
O UR WORLD IS increasingly uncomfortable with objective truth. Relativism and subjectivity attempt to redefine ourselves and our surroundings on the basis of our fallen viewpoints. Yet science is stubbornly objective. It doesn’t matter whether or not you feel it—the ...
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R ECENTLY, MORE THAN 60 Evangelical leaders released a statement addressing artificial intelligence. The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) spent nine months working on “Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles”—a document designed to equip the ...
T HESE SIX THINGS doth the Lord hate; yea, seven are an abomination to him” (Proverbs 6:16). God does not discriminate between evils, but in Proverbs 6:16-19, He points out seven prevalent evils. Let’s consider these sins’ awful effects. • ...
I T HAD BEEN a long, exhausting night for Peter. He and six of his fellow disciples had fished all night, but hadn’t caught even one fish. As they steered their boat toward the shore, Jesus was watching. He directed ...
I N TODAY’S SOCIETY, an ungodly presence is coming against the Church. In many ways it reminds me of the system spawned by Nebuchadnezzar in ancient Babylon. This evil king “removed the treasures from the temple of the Lord and ...
I LIVE WITHIN a few miles of Charlottesville, Virginia—a quiet college town which became the focus of international attention in August 2017. The words “Remember Charlottesville” conjure images of torch-bearing Neo-Nazis, violent street conflicts, and hatred personified. What happened in ...
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