He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. (John 8:44-45) Three years ago, I watched my daughter suffer from anorexia and am convinced from the deception I saw at work that Satan may have been more responsible than some of the other explanations […]

“Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:25) When I was in my early twenties, my then wife and I would routinely travel to Charlotte to spend the weekend with her sister. She was married to a doctor who saw no earthly reason why he should go to church on Sunday morning. He could get all the church he needed from his living room […]

“‘Good teacher,’ he asked, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ ‘Why do you call Me good?’ Jesus answered.” (Mark 10:17-18) I stumbled across a great book when I was surfing the Internet the other day by the title “Questioning Evangelism.” I haven’t received my copy yet, but I’ve already read enough on the Internet about it to highly recommend it. It provides a practical framework for winning souls to Christ. People seem to forget the Great Commission, but that’s our challenge from the Lord. Why? So […]

“But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” (Psalm 22:3) You’ve heard your music minister say it time and time again. “God inhabits the praises of his people,” my music minister often tells us at my church. I always thought that it was nothing more than a way to get me to sing the praise choruses that so many of our churches use now. The truth is we should heed that advice. It’s not just that it’s scriptural. It’s one of God’s principles that […]