“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is for building up others according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” (Ephesians 4:29) Aren’t you glad the political ads are going to end next Tuesday? It seems like they’ve been on TV forever. If you don’t remember, the political ads for president began running almost a year before the Republican and Democratic Party Conventions even began! There ought to be a law against that! The Madison Avenue crowd was […]

“He will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.” (Micah 7:19) My home computer has really been acting kind of crazy lately. It would reboot itself when I checked my e-mail and at other times it would just inexplicably crash or shut down. I asked a friend about it and he told me that I had so many corrupt files on my hard drive that the operating system was getting confused. He recommended […]

“But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will hallow my name.” (Isaiah 29:23) I taught a Sunday school class several years ago during which time I recounted a testimony that had been given at another church. A young man, barely in his 40’s, had sustained a massive heart attack, died and was resuscitated. When he regained consciousness, he was angry that the doctors and nurses revived him because he had seen a glimpse of heaven and did not want to […]

“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 […]