“I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites.” (Psalms 26:4) When my wife and I met, it didn’t take long for me to realize that her faith was very important to her. “You’re pretty religious, aren’t you?,” I asked her on our first date. I’ll never forget her answer: “No, I’m not religious at all. I’m a Christian.” I couldn’t understand why she had a problem with being labeled as religious, at least not until I became a Christian and could understand the […]

“The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:41-42) Larry Hagman recently appeared on Entertainment Tonight to promote the two-hour Dallas special that appeared on CBS. Hagman, you may remember, is a recovering alcoholic whose passion for the bottle ultimately destroyed his liver and placed his name on a transplant list. The […]

“For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” (Matthew 13:15) When I was a small child, my family watched Oral Roberts on television every week. The Oral Roberts of the late 1950’s was not the Oral Roberts whom we know today. In the early years of his ministry, Roberts conducted healing services and won notoriety […]

“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means, God with us.” (Matthew 1:23) I have a friend and coworker whom I see almost every day. He often comments about my column and asked me recently to deal with a spiritual question that has bothered him for many years. “One Saturday, I want you to tell me why God had to resort to such extreme measures to save us. I mean, if He is so all-knowing […]