What a great weekend!  In fact, it was the perfect weekend, exactly what was needed!  How do I know? Dave Miller arrived safely and did an outstanding job in the seminar.  He presented seven masterful lectures!  Actually, they were perfect, exactly what was needed!  How do I know? There were hundreds in attendance at the Eissey Campus Theatre every night, half of…

Try to imagine a marriage like the following example and consider how you would react if you were the husband in this illustration. Your wife only comes to the house once a week and only stays for about an hour.  Sometimes she doesn’t even show up every week and it may be two or three weeks before she comes back to the…

The July 2008 issue of Reader’s Digest had an interesting article on pages 162-169 entitled, “Why We’re Happy.”  Before pointing out his five keys to happiness, the author noted that happiness is not based upon the acquisition of things or being accepted by others or any other factors that “we typically hear about.  Things like winning the lottery, getting liposuction, and earning…

It is obvious that there are vaccines available today for just about anything.  Children are vaccinated for things like measles, mumps, chickenpox, diphtheria, hepatitis, polio and a multitude of other diseases.  And, adults can be vaccinated against most of the same diseases, plus many others like shingles.  With all of our vaccines today, and then all of the drugs and antibiotics to…

Homecoming Weekend brought back some fond memories of Palm Beach Lakes from years gone by. Having grown up at Palm Beach Lakes, I’ve known no other congregation like PBL. Even more, having grown up at Palm Beach Lakes, I’ve only known one way for a family and for children to be involved in a local congregation. While I would not claim that…

If Jesus were to come back today, looking for His church, He would not go in search of a building.  The church is not a building and has never been confined to a physical structure.  Our Lord would look for His people—those who had been saved and added to His church.  In addition to those characteristics already discussed, here are two identifiers…

Suppose you were the head of an institution, having established it and written its bylaws and rules for operation.  If you had left the institution to itself for a period of time and then returned to see how it was faring, would you know what to look for?  Would there be certain expectations?  The reality is that you, more than anyone else,…

If Jesus were to come among us again today, what kind of church would He look for?  Of course, He would look for the one for which He died and has been in existence since the first century. But how would He recognize it?  Would there be a definitive way for Jesus to isolate His church from the thousands that have sprung…