“May she who gave you birth rejoice.” (Proverbs 23:25) Tomorrow is a big day in the life of mothers. In fact, our country has celebrated Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May ever since President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it as a national holiday in 1914. But that’s just part of the story about how one of our nation’s most coveted days began. Strangely, the rest of the story has been forgotten; given way I guess to all the commercialism that Mother’s Day now carries with it. Its […]

“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 […]

“Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.” (Revelation 1:19) There is a good explanation why the miniseries is called Revelations instead of Revelation as the last book in the Bible is named – it’s not the same thing. The events in the TV miniseries bear no resemblance to the end times that Jesus told the Apostle John to write about. In fact, while the movie questions whether we are living in the last days, […]

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) There were times when the Apostle Paul must have looked at himself in the mirror and wondered what in the world had happened to him. He knew that salvation from the inside is much more difficult to understand than it is from the outside. So you see, when Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth that “old things have passed away” and “all […]