“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:17) Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, I’d like to take a brief pause from Christmas to explore an important spiritual truth. It may very well change the way we think about the Christmas season. Christmas is a season when we often have trouble distinguishing our wants from our needs, but that […]

“Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil’.” (Genesis 3:4-5) I once thought that Satan was not the source of all evil in this world. Just because people could be bad, ugly, mean-spirited, or whatever label you might want to attach to it, didn’t have to mean that the devil made them do it. A lot of unbelievers […]

“The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.” (Psalm 34:22) I was watching the evening news last week and an interesting story involving an airline flight caught my attention. It reminded me how right the Apostle James really was when he wrote, “You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away”. (James 4:14) When they boarded their flight, […]

“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 6:11) A local church in my community recently placed an advertisement in the religion section of my newspaper. “The Roman Road Leads to Rome,” the ad read. It continued, “Many honest-hearted soul winners are using the Book of Romans to try to get people saved.” The ad was a teaser, aimed at non-church members, hoping to get their attention enough to get them to come to church to hear the pastor’s […]