“Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3) The one Christian promise that I don’t particularly like is the fact that Christian living will bring more than its share of suffering. But that’s exactly what Jesus promised us when He said, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross […]

“Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.” (Ecclesiastes 5:5) There are many of us who believe that the Bible has very little to say about money, except for the issue of tithing. Actually, the Bible has more to say about money than it has to say about faith and prayer combined. Over 2,000 verses in the Bible deal with money while only 1,000 verses deal with the issues of prayer and faith. Did you know that more than half […]

“And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love, with him I am well pleased. ” (Matthew 3:17) I have a twelve-year-old son who loves baseball more than he loves to eat. To me, he’s one of the finest baseball players for his age that I’ve ever seen. But then again, no parent can be objective when it comes to talking about his own child. You know what I mean? This summer, Mark made the all-star team and we had the opportunity to travel […]

“Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:25) When I was in my early twenties, my then wife and I would routinely travel to Charlotte to spend the weekend with her sister. She was married to a doctor who saw no earthly reason why he should go to church on Sunday morning. He could get all the church he needed from his living room […]