When the three Hebrew young men refused to bow down to Nebuchadnezzar’s image, he was not pleased (to say the least!).  Certain men told the king, “You, O king, have made a decree… There are certain Jews…[who] have not paid due regard to you.  They do not serve your gods or worship the gold image which you have set up” (Dan. 3:8-12). …

When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, the evil one was identified by three different “names” on that occasion.  “Jesus was led…into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matt. 4:1).  As “the devil,” he is our accuser and slanderer.  “Now when the tempter came to Him” (4:3).  As “the tempter,” he is the tester, the enticer, the try-er of our…

Hiring our fourth secretary in five years is quite a process, but it’s made me realize that no matter how things might change they remain the same.  We have a newer copy machine than five years ago, but it still makes copies.  We are reproducing CDs and DVDs now instead of cassette tapes, but it is still the same gospel being spread. …

Driving down the interstate, with the rain coming down and the blades wiping, a spiritual application came to mind.  There is a road that we are traveling down as Christians – the strait and narrow way, the Highway of Holiness.  There is someone who is trying to distract us by constantly dropping things in our way – the devil.  Sometimes we run…

The very thought of preaching “another Jesus” seems absurd!  The general thought is that one either preaches Jesus or he doesn’t preach Jesus…he either believes in Jesus or he doesn’t believe in Jesus.  How is it possible that someone could preach but preach “another Jesus”? Paul warned the church at Corinth, “For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have…

For those who have dealt with people (or we could just say “with children”) long enough, you’ve probably come to realize that there are usually (and almost always) two sides to every story.  Yet, how easily we forget that fact sometimes!  Solomon stated this truism in Proverbs 18:17 – “The first one to plead his cause seems right.”  You hear the first…

“If the Scripture says something, who are you to nullify it, set it aside or deem it unacceptable?” That is basically what Jesus was asking the Jews in John 10:34-36.  Jesus told the Jews, “Here is what the Scripture says…and the Scripture cannot be broken!” Oh, how that message needs to be heard by people in our nation today.  People are saying,…

The illustration of the potter and the clay is one that is employed frequently in the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah.  Jeremiah went to a potter’s house, in Jeremiah 18, and saw a potter “making something at the wheel.  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another…