“Let us come before him with thanksgiving.” (Psalm 95:2) Satan has a stronghold on Thanksgiving. Have you noticed? Retail merchants don’t play it up anymore like they did when I was a kid. They skip right by Thanksgiving and go from Halloween to Christmas. In fact, many of them don’t even close on Thanksgiving Thursday, denying their own employees the opportunity to pause and reflect on the blessings of life. There’s simply too much money to be made on Christmas for them to stop and acknowledge Thanksgiving. History […]

“I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.” (Matthew 18:22) I have a friend who was fired from her job less than a year ago. She called me recently and shared with me that even though it has been more than a year since she lost her job, she continues to experience occasional waves of pain and anger. In her case, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her boss and was summarily fired after the complaint was investigated. […]

“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) I have personally witnessed hundreds of salvation experiences, but I’ve never witnessed one as dramatic as I saw last week. A twenty-six year old man came to know the Lord Jesus from an altar call that followed a drama at my church. The drama made you think about the poor choices we make and the consequences that they often bring. One of […]

“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.” (Romans 3:20, NIV) I find it somewhat ironic that the United States Supreme Court will finally decide on the constitutionality of the public display of the Ten Commandments. Ironic because I fear that the high court will rule against it, even though they hold court in a building that has a rendering of Moses for his importance as a law giver, and at least two […]