Initially, he didn’t care for it. He stood against it to the point of persecuting those that would name the name of Christ until he learned who Christ was, not who he thought Christ was. The conversion of Saul to Paul in chapters nine and twenty-two of Acts teaches us that nobody is too far gone. We see his change from great…

I have never met anyone who has never been a child. I have met some that are too old to be children. We all pass through this tumultuous and, at times, awkward valley of learning. What can we do to traverse this plain with as little pain as possible? Here are some ideas. One, all children (no matter how old) should be…

Oh, to be a parent! To be an involved and caring parent is the most joyous thing in life and the most painful. We have been given such a great responsibility when we are blessed with children. We are to bring up our children in the Lord. Then let them go and make their own choices and live their own lives. I…

None could argue with the importance of the wife and mom in the family dynamic. It is this role that embodies so much of the heart and soul of what it means to be family. “He who finds a wife finds a good thing” (Prov. 18:22). “An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels” (Prov. 31:10). When…

The relationship between man and woman and the subsequent family is one of the oldest relationships on earth. Only slightly older is the relationship between man and God. It was God that placed the husband as the head of the family. “Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord” (Eph. 5:22-25; 1 Cor. 11:3). Being the head of the…

Evangelism is more than a summertime trip, more than door knocking, more than special mail outs, more than an international move, more than an invite to a friend, more than any act. Evangelism is part of something eternal and powerful. Evangelism is how the church spreads the divine message. “To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to…

It begins this way, “I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; from where shall my help come” (Psa. 121:1)? This psalm of ascents, as it was later dubbed, points to Jehovah God as the central agent of help for the believer. It is believed to be called a psalm of ascents because of its use by Jews during their pilgrimage…

A familiar event in the life of Jesus has captured my attention recently. Not for its familiarity but for a detail that I had overlooked. That detail has been on my mind. This event is recorded in Mark chapter five and Luke chapter eight. The scene opens with Jesus getting out of a boat as they had crossed the Sea of Galilee.…