“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26) No one was more prepared to speak on the subject of vanity than Solomon. He lived a life chasing all the traps that his money could set for him. After he finally learned that it would get him nowhere, he wrote a book about it and called it Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes means preacher and boy did Solomon ever preach about how “wine, women and song” almost cost him […]

“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.” (Romans 6:17) I understand exactly what the Apostle Paul means when he says, “You used to be slaves to sin.” But I didn’t understand it until I was born again. Salvation gave me a whole different perspective about the life I used to live. The truth is I can’t believe some of the things I did, not to mention some of the […]

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10) Chances are, if you’re reading this column, you believe in Christ, which means when you die, you will appear before the judgment seat of Christ where the Bible says we will be held accountable for what we did with our lives. I had a reader recently asked me what happens at the judgment […]

“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven.” (2 Corinthians 12:2) Have you ever thought what Paul meant when he referred to a third heaven? We’ve been taught all our lives that there is only one heaven and then right out of the blue, Paul suggests that there are three of them. What’s going on? A friend of mine once remarked that he didn’t really care how many heavens there were, as long as he was in one of […]