“And he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the king will say to those on his right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world’…Then he will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels’.” (Matthew 25:33-34, 41) When I lived in Georgia, my wife and I visited several churches before we […]

“Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.” (Psalms 54:2) Several years ago, I had to fly to New York for a business meeting. I don’t know about you, but I have always found the aisle seats to be the most comfortable. Since I had a two-hour flight, I asked the travel agent to reserve an aisle seat for me. I boarded the plane and quickly found my seat. However, I looked up to see a young man in crutches who was to be […]

“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) I read an article recently about the lasting importance of the Ten Commandments in which the author observed, “When God gave His people the Ten Commandments, he wrote them on stone to symbolize their durable, lasting nature. He wrote them on both sides of the stone to signify their thoroughness. And he wrote these laws […]

“That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past.” (Ecclesiastes 3:15) I always like to end the new year by looking back, particularly at major trends that might affect how we reach out to others with our Christian faith. Trends are important. They not only shape what we will be buying next Christmas, or what we’ll watch on TV next fall, they also can be used to shape how we can most effectively reach […]