“Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait til the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts.” (I Corinthians 4:5) Last month, I celebrated my 65th Birthday. That prompted a lot of questions for me about where I am in my Christian walk. The closer I got to 65, the more I realized there were a lot more years behind me than ahead of me. I never thought much about it until I got into […]

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16) When I lived in Georgia, I had a friend at my church that I had grown to admire. His love for Christ was deep and his passion to witness for the Lord was unmatched. In short, he was on fire for Jesus. Unfortunately, his born-again attitude made him the brunt of a lot of jokes where he worked. He asked me to pray for him. Several […]

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.” (Jonah 2:1-2) If you grew up in church, you know the story of Jonah. God asked him to go to Nineveh, a city of 120,000, to help him save them from their own wickedness. Like most of us, when we run from what we think is trouble, we often go somewhere we think we […]

“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 about 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 his relationship with […]