Having a functioning web address is almost as expected today as a street address—having a functioning web site as expected as a physical site—a valid email address as a mailing address.  And, wow, were we ever reminded of that in the last two months! The Palm Beach Lakes congregation has had a presence on the world wide web for 15 years.  (Buzz…

Wow! Were you as impressed as I was with the revelation of our new and improved website this past Sunday morning? What a fabulous tool for the spreading of the gospel! We were so disappointed that someone hacked into our site the second Sunday of October and wrecked the site. Thankfully, we were already planning to update and improve the site this…

On November 28, 2010, The Miami Herald carried an article by Jaweed Kaleem entitled, “Famed televangelist Osteen’s ‘Night of Hope’ in Miami.”  The article (published in The Palm Beach Post on December 2) preceded Joel Osteen’s motivational message in Miami last Friday night (which attracted 13,000 “fans,” as they’re called).  Osteen is a popular televangelist, who preaches for a 43,000-member “church” in…

Just suppose someone made a perfect translation of the official rules of baseball and sent them to a distant land. When the people there received that rule book they were fascinated and decided to introduce this sport into their land. The baseball field was laid out according to the rule book with every distance measured accurately. The strike zone was learned and…

Can you remember, when as a child, you thought that anyone who was thirty was really old, and anyone over sixty was approaching Methuselah’s age? It’s funny when you turn thirty your whole perception changes. If you are sixty plus, you, unlike those around you, cannot seem to think of yourself as being old. The Bible has so much to say about…

It is estimated that Daniel and his companions were mere teenagers when taken into Babylonian captivity.  What would you have done? If you were a teenager, taken into a foreign country (a pagan nation) for the rest of your life, what would you have done?  If you were given the opportunity to live, not among the captives, but among royalty, what would…

A study of 1 Corinthians 14 shows that God wanted prophets, not tongue speakers, in the assembly of the church. It also shows that the church at Corinth wanted tongue speaking more than they wanted prophets. When there was no interpreter present, those in the assembly knew that God was in their midst, but they did not have a clue what God…

Worship in the church at Corinth had to be an unforgettable experience. A careful reading of 1 Corinthians reveals such an abuse of the Lord’s Supper and a vying for showing one’s superiority with spiritual gifts given to the members there. The Lord’s Supper had lost its original intent and had become a “church social function,” with the rich displaying their sumptuous…