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…

One of the great challenges facing Christians is peer pressure. We all want to be liked and so the tendency is to alter our lives just enough so we will be accepted by others. How many Christians have compromised values simply because they did not want to stand out and be different? One lesson each of us must learn is how fickle…

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…

In 598 B.C., the army of Babylon, led by their king, Nebuchadnezzar, besieged the city of Tyre. This ancient city was one of the wealthiest cities of the world because of their merchant ships which traversed the known world. However, the city did not immediately fall. In fact, it was thirteen years later that the merchants of Tyre sailed away taking their…

The Muslim world would have us believe that they follow the same God we do but they simply call Him by another name. Their view is that God’s blessings promised through Abraham come through Ishmael and not through Isaac. There are several reasons why we can affirm that we do not serve the same God as the Islamic world. The most obvious…

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…

Gus Nichols preached for nearly half a century in Jasper, Alabama. During the time he was there, the church grew and became a very powerful influence throughout that area. The church was deeply respected for the many lives which were changed through its evangelistic efforts. He once described the most effective gospel meeting they ever had and the method they used to…