Next month Traci and I will celebrate 13 years of marital bliss.  Dan and Judie are celebrating their 50th Anniversary this week.  Ed and Ella Archer celebrate their 69th next month.  In a day and age when the average marriage, according to some studies, lasts only seven years (and seemingly much shorter for many couples), these examples above are beyond our society’s…

What a miserable life! Paul described the Christian’s former life, when “we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another” (Titus 3:3, ESV).  Can you imagine (or perhaps, can you remember?) going through every day filled with hate—hate directed toward you and hate…

While addressing the children of Israel before they took possession of the Promised Land, Moses pleaded with them to not forget the Lord who brought them out of Egypt.  He foretold of the land into which the Lord would bring them—“to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, houses…which you did not fill, …wells which you did not…

The power of a word is most impressively illustrated in Genesis 1.  Peter sums it up by saying, “By the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water…” (2 Peter 3:5).  “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” by His word.  Peter continues in verse 7 by affirming,…

In an interesting section of Old Testament Scripture that discusses various confrontations and punishments to be inflicted (including capital punishment), the Lord addresses the situation where a pregnant woman would be involved.  Notice God’s evaluation of life in the womb. “If men fight, and hurt a woman with child…” (Ex. 21:22-23).  God says that the pregnant woman is “with child”—not “with fetus”!…

Sometimes we have “friends” (and I intentionally put that word in quotation marks for emphasis) who try to persuade us to do things, say things, try things, go places, etc. that we should not and must not as children of God.  Nevertheless, for some reason we still associate with them, and eventually they are often successful in their persuasive efforts. Do you…

Be careful how you read that sentence.  I don’t want more people to believe in evolution.  But if evolution is true, and people have been on the earth for a few million years (as they claim), then we need more people on the earth to prove that.  Here’s why. Human population studies will not support evolutionists’ claims about the age of the…

In one of the most practical chapters for Christians, Romans 12 is a chapter that should be written on the heart of every child of God.  One interesting (i.e., not practiced too regularly today, it seems) directive of God in this chapter is found in the last three words of verse 13—“given to hospitality.” The word “given” is from a Greek word…