“For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will not be cut off.” (Proverbs 23:18) I saw that verse played out in the life of a ten-year-old little boy helping out at a church I once attended. It was one of the sweetest moments that Jesus has brought my way since I decided to follow him. Many churches offer alternatives to Halloween. The alternative my church chose was a drama called Fate’s Place, which points out how the decisions we make every day can send us to […]

“Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. And He said, ‘Let Me go, for the day breaks’.” (Genesis 32:24-26) It was a close encounter of the God kind and one of the most unusual stories told in Scripture. To many, it raises more questions than it […]

“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Galatians 5:19-21) I once knew a Christian who became so convicted about what his family was watching on television that he put it out in the street. […]

“And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 25:30) I read the above verse the other day and thought about a cornflakes commercial I remembered seeing on television several years ago. Three men are seated in a waiting room, each with a bushel basket, flooded with ears of corn, waiting to see the cornflake inspector. All were very proud of their harvest, at least until the first man went in to see the inspector and within seconds […]