Isn’t the human brain amazing?  For men, they can stick all sorts of sports statistics, fishing stories and football schedules in their heads (but they can’t seem to remember a simple date).  For ladies, they can recall with ease every outfit that other ladies have worn to church for the last six months, their child’s “firsts” and every dumb argument their spouse…

What do microscopes and telescopes have to do with God?  Microscopes use a lens or series of lenses to create enlarged images of minute objects, so that we can see things that we would normally not be able to see because they are so small.  Telescopes use lenses and/or mirrors for viewing distant objects, so that we can see things that we…

We have been told that teaching sexual abstinence until marriage is “unrealistic” in our day and it doesn’t work.  Therefore, they say, we must find a way to compromise and to protect our young people.  Hence, we teach our elementary-age children “safe sex” techniques and habits, instead of teaching them to wait until they are married.  But, are we going far enough?…

In Psalm 31, David called upon God to protect him from his enemies.  His enemies “secretly laid” a net to catch him (31:4); slandered, taken “counsel together against” him and schemed “to take away” his life” (31:13); persecuted him (31:15); spoke lies and “insolent things proudly and contemptuously against” him (31:18).  David pleaded with God to listen (31:2), deliver (31:1-2, 15), lead…

Everybody has a hero (or so it seems).  For some, it might be a sports figure or some Olympic athlete.  For others, it might be someone in Hollywood, like a big movie star or a Broadway performer.  It could be someone in your family, someone in your neighborhood, a police officer, a firefighter, etc.  There are heroes all around us, some good…