“..May she who gave you birth rejoice!” (Proverbs 23:25b) As a child, I despised Mother’s Day. You see, my mother unexpectedly died when I was seven years old, so Mother’s Day for me meant that I had to relive my mother’s death every year. In fact all of my friends got to wear a red carnation on Mother’s Day, but I had to wear a white creation. Mother’s Day singled me out and I hated it. All of us would like to take back things we have said […]

“I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2) My church hosted a crusade, which concluded this past Sunday night. I was asked by one of its promoters to encourage the unchurched as well as the churched in my community to attend. I haven’t been led to use my column to promote community issues or needs. In fact, I promised myself, as well as the newspaper, that I would never promote anything. Rather, I would deal with modern […]

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34) When you look worry up in the dictionary, my picture should be next to it. Why I even worry about the fact that I worry. Worry is not a Christian quality. It is sin and it represents nothing more than an innate fear of the unknown. It’s exactly what our Christian faith should remedy. So, just what does the Bible have to say to those of […]

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21) As a child, I was terrified of death. I lost my mother when I was seven years old. So death was not just a figment of my imagination. I saw its sting and I understood how it could tear a family apart. I still fear death, largely because I continue to view it through the eyes of that seven-year old who lost his mother. Yet, for the mature Christian, death is a part of […]