Cade Courtley (former SEAL team leader, author and TV personality) wrote in his book, SEAL Survival Guide, “In military-speak, situational awareness is defined as the ability to identify, process and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening to the team with regard to a mission. More simply, it’s being aware of what is going on around you…These [the unaware]…

So many Christians feel rather good about their spiritual lives because they attend worship on a regular basis. They partake of the Lord’s Supper almost every Sunday and even come at other times depending on what else is happening in their lives. What we often overlook is that one can worship regularly, yet at the same time can unknowingly be on the…

Modern culture has created a mold for today’s young men and young women, and too many are allowing themselves to be poured right into it.  Young people are depicted as self-absorbed, ungrateful, anti-social, materialistic individuals, who are given to a lifestyle of instant satisfaction, sexual abandonment and irresponsible behavior.  (Notice, that is not my view, but how young people are often depicted…

In the midst of his suffering, Job longed to die. Who has ever been so blessed and then suffered so much because of the adversity which surrounded him? He longed to die, but death would not come. He described his future in these words. “For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return” (Job 16:22). “The…

Modern culture has created a mold for today’s fathers and mothers, and too many are allowing themselves to be poured right into it.  Fathers are often depicted (because this is what is wanted and expected of them) as incompetent, blundering, brainless idiots, who wouldn’t have a clue how to raise a child even on a video game.  That is, of course, if…

There is a phrase, most often used in a question form, to describe one’s relationship to the Lord and one’s salvation. It is not uncommon for individuals to ask others, “Do you know the Lord as your personal Savior?” There is nothing wrong with this phrase, but it can so easily be used in a way vastly different from the way the…

Modern culture has created a mold for today’s husbands and wives, and too many are allowing themselves to be poured right into it.  Husbands are depicted (because this is what is wanted and expected of them) to be weak, helpless, lazy, childlike, cowering, bumbling oafs.  And, if one of them attempts to step out of that mold and take on a stronger…

A well-known philosopher of our day has this to say about our McDonald’s society. “I’m tired of people acting like they are better than McDonald’s. Okay, you may never set foot in McDonald’s, but you have your own McDonald’s. Maybe instead of ordering a Big Mac you read Us Weekly. That’s still McDonald’s, it’s just served up a little different. Maybe your…