“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst…The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14) Our mission as Christians is to win others to Christ. But the tricky part about soul winning is that it is more of an art than a science. In other words, how we go about it can make all the difference in the world. For example, the easy thing to do is to point […]

“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which means God with us.” (Matthew 1:23) I wrote most of this column from my hotel room in Washington, D.C. in 2000 where I spent the first weekend in March attending the Annual Legislative Conference of the National Association of Counties. It’s a story that I didn’t want to go stale on me before I returned home to tell it. It’s still fresh over eighteen years later. I told […]

“Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13) Apple’s new releases of souped-up iPhones iPads and MacBooks turned my thoughts to Steve Jobs. The company now has 250 billion in cash in the bank and most of it is due to Jobs’ genius. He’s been dead now for over 7 years, and most of us do not give him the credit he deserves. The truth is Jobs deserves most of the credit for transforming cell phones into pocket computers. Even though you may […]

“And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found’.” (Luke 15:31-32) I have to give credit to one of my former pastors for this devotion. Several years ago, he preached a sermon on the prodigal son that inspired me to think about the “other son” in the parable. His slant on the meaning […]