An ancient Chinese proverb says, “The journey of a thousand miles begins under your feet” (Loazi, 4th century BC). Some may scoff at the profound obviousness of this statement. Others might stencil it on the wall of their house. Whatever your opinion of this proverb, the way that is it used accurately highlights the most important part of any journey or any…

This question may not matter to you. I believe we are at liberty to choose within the options the Bible provides. What is your image of Jesus? There are a lot of artists who have depicted Him. The images have taken on the aspects of the particular culture in which they were created. Most of them have an eye pleasing, peaceful, angelic…

This is not the justification you are looking for. Most people think of justification for their action whether good or bad. The Bible talks about it in a different way. “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we…

Christianity is a business, and truth is the product. Not really. At times it’s hard not to think that. So much of religious display in the world appears to be nothing more than a spectacle of franchises, each one peddling the same thing in different ways. You’ve even been urged by the media to “attend the church of your choice,” as if…

Life has a way of teaching us. One of the lessons I learned as a teenager involved a rusty metal box. My brother and I were cleaning a yard and preparing it to be sodded. We kept kicking around this old metal box that looked like an Altoid box. The guy we were working for eventually saw it, picked it up and…

People do some things in the Bible that leave you wondering why. On one such occasion, the Egyptians were two plagues into a ten-plague stretch. Frogs were everywhere, and there was no escaping them. When the time had come, Moses appeared before the pharaoh and said, “The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants…

This week marks another anniversary of Operation Overlord or D-Day. A combination of American and Allied forces landed 156,000 men on the beaches of Normandy and surrounding areas. Ten thousand men lost their lives taking the beaches in the largest seaborne invasion in history. This would mark the beginning of the end of WWII. D-Day, with all of its details and odds…

We live in a time where access to information is unfettered. A bottomless pit of info is available at your fingertips. The issue is not getting information. The issue is sorting through the vast sea of information to determine what is right and what is wrong. It is a dangerous thing to have access to data without the ability to determine what…