For those adults who are “done with school,” I suppose we left school thinking we would never have to memorize “anything else” again.  For young people who are still in school and required to memorize all sorts of things for tests, I suppose one of the last things you want to do is memorize “something else.” Can I draw your attention to…

I was once told that since God hates pride that it was wrong to be proud of your children.  Is that true?  It is true that God hates pride; such is plainly recorded multiple times in the book of Proverbs, especially 6:16-19.  But, this is talking about an arrogant, haughty, insolent, conceited spirit.  If one displays this kind of attitude in any…

The bank teller said, “We do not accept printed checks with manual corrections.”  What?  How is that such a big deal?  I had gone to the bank to deposit a check, which had been printed from a computer program, but with the wrong date.  Before I received the check, a manual (almost imperceptible) correction had been made on the date to make…

Whether you’re single or married, the question is for you—got a date this weekend? Those who are in the “dating” or “courting” stage may do more to impress their date than us old married folks, but we all still put our best foot forward when going out.  We will put on clean clothes (might even take a shower).  We will comb our…

Read these words of Jesus from Luke 12:54-56 and ask yourself, how does this apply to me?  “Then He also said to the multitudes, ‘Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, “A shower is coming”; and so it is.  And when you see the south wind blow, you say, “There will be hot weather”; and there…

That is what God, in essence, told newlyweds to do in the Old Testament.  In Deuteronomy 24:5, the One who created, defined and regulates marriage instructed the Jews, “When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his…

If God is the one “who comforts” and is “your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth” and is “the Lord your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared,” then here is God’s question for you—“Who are you that you should be afraid of a man who will die?” (Isa. 51:12-15).  We spend so much…

The prophetic picture of Jesus Christ in Isaiah 53 is just overwhelming.  Think about these words as they were used to describe our Savior—despised, rejected, Man of sorrows, grief, despised, did not esteem Him, stricken, smitten by God, afflicted, wounded, bruised, chastisement, stripes, the iniquity of us all, oppressed, afflicted, lamb to the slaughter, cut off, stricken, grave with the wicked, bruise,…