“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Since we just celebrated Veterans Day, I thought I would honor our veterans with a great story about the song, God Bless America. God Bless America debuted in 1938 when it was first sung by Kate Smith during her radio broadcast on Armistice Day. Many of us weren’t even born when Kate Smith sung God Bless America for the first time. But the lyrics are timeless and the song continues […]

“Then Nathan said to David, ‘You are the man!’” (2 Samuel 12:7) When the prophet Nathan pointed his finger at David and told him his sins were known by God, it shook David to his core. No longer could he think he could hide the fact that he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and murdered her husband, Uriah. He had foolishly convinced himself that out of sight meant out of mind until Nathan reminded him that God knew his sins, not to mention others who worked and lived […]

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) The date was June 24, 1962. I was nine years-old and had just walked down the aisle of First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to profess my faith in Christ. After Sunday dinner that afternoon, a friend of my family gave me a Bible with an inscription that read, “To my little friend, Mike Ruffin: Today, June 24, 1962, you have opened your […]

“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 […]