“Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.” (Luke 17:33) New Year’s Day…The one day of the year when we look back at the year we’ve just experienced in relation to the year that lies ahead of us. If you’re like me, you’re already hoping to see some much needed change in your life during 2005. New Year’s Resolutions, we call them, although they are really nothing more than a list of the things that are frustrating […]

“And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.” (Luke 2:12) I recently heard a different account of the Christmas Story, told through the eyes of a six year-old little Russian boy named Misha. He took a few liberties with the truth, but boy did it ever change the way he looked at the world around him. Misha had never heard the story about the birth of Jesus until a missionary visited the orphanage where he […]

“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 6:11) My church had an altar call the other day and I watched one of our altar workers assist a young man who told him that he felt the conviction to come forward and accept Christ. Many of us would not be comfortable in such a situation because we are not called to serve in such a way. But what I witnessed that Sunday morning was a very talented individual doing […]

“‘You will not surely die,’ the serpent said to the woman. ‘For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil’.” (Genesis 3:4-5) I once thought that Satan was not the source of all evil in this world. Just because people could be bad, ugly, mean-spirited, whatever label you might want to attach to it, didn’t have to mean that the devil made them do it. I know a lot of unbelievers don’t associate […]