The story of Rehoboam coming to power is a classic case of one who lacked wisdom and went looking for wisdom in the wrong place.  “How should he treat the people of Israel?” He was “in charge” now; the trouble was that he wanted everyone to know that “he was in charge now!” When he asked those who were older (and wiser),…

The word “way” is used five times in Proverbs 15.  Twice it is used to speak of “the way” that leads away from the Lord.  “The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord…The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns” (15:9, 19).  Three times (including verse 10) it is used to speak of “the way”…

In 1872, John G. Whittier (in his song, “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”) thought that Christians singing in worship needed to petition God to “reclothe us in our rightful mind.”  Well, that was then, this is now.  Things are much different now.  Right?  Now that we’re in the 21st century, Christians no longer struggle with menial things like keeping a rightful…

I heard a story, which I’m sure has many renditions, of an engineering professor who told his university class that they could bring to their final exam a single 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, with as much information as they could cram on it, to help them during the exam.  You can imagine how those engineering students used every square inch…

It makes me sick just to write it.  I saw a black bumper sticker the other day with white lettering that simply said, “I love sin.”  I had a few things I wanted to ask the driver but didn’t get the chance.  It’s not that the concept of the world loving sin is new or unique; the Bible speaks about man serving…

My Kelly spent part of Sunday afternoon taping handwritten signs all over the house as a constant visual reminder of something very important to her.  Even if I had not seen her make the signs, they were obviously her handiwork — it was her handwriting and it was her birthday written on the signs.  She did not want anyone to forget her…

Can you imagine knowing for thousands and thousands of years that you were on the losing side of a battle with God?  God told Satan, “My Son ‘shall bruise your head!’” (Gen. 3:15).  How often do you think Satan is reminded of the cross of Christ, where he (and his power of death) were destroyed (Heb. 2:14), reminded that there is an…

After throwing Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego into the fiery furnace, Nebuchadnezzar was amazed at what he saw.  “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?…Look!…I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God” (Dan. 3:24-25).  He saw…