How much of an impact are you having on others through your life?  Are you just coasting along on cruise control, or are you actively taking every occasion you can to positively influence people around you? Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third President of the United States, once made the following statement.  Pay close attention to the last part of this quote:  “Men…

Being narrow-minded is tantamount to being intolerant of another person’s thoughts and opinions on a subject.  Such an accusation will surely land you on the social outcast list. You would be publicly ridiculed in stocks of the city center. People would hurl all manner of insults and rotted vegetables at you.  While the life of Jesus on earth represented the broadness of…

Paul’s words that we should “…walk circumspectly” (Eph. 5:15) would be easily understood by those who first read this in the King James Version. It simply means that as we walk we should be looking about and carefully considering all that is happening. It begins with us looking upward, to establish the right relationship with God. Then we should also look around…

It is fascinating to read about the apostles laying hands on early Christians, in order that they might receive a miraculous endowment of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:14-18).  It is exciting to know that a variety of these gifts were thus imparted, including the working of miracles, healings, prophecy, tongues, direct knowledge of divine will, etc. (1 Cor. 12:7-11).  It is significant…

The title “man of God” had an interesting usage in the Old Testament books. It was used in reference to men who were used in special ways for God. Moses was named a man of God (Deut. 33:1). It is easy to see how he was used for God. Samuel, the judge that anointed Saul and David, was a man of God.…

When one reads Paul’s letter to Colosse in the King James or the New King James translations of the Bible, he finds a word not commonly used. Paul urged those saints to live holy lives by saying, “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise” (Eph. 5:15). The English word “circumspectly” is a compound word with the first…

Has anyone ever taken you out of context?  Have you ever said something and then that statement was later used in a way that you never intended?  That has probably happened to most people at some point in their life.  Isn’t that frustrating!  Is there anything more exasperating than someone making it sound like you said something that you didn’t say? When…

There was a recent commercial that caught my attention. It involved a man dressed in a beige suit looking for beige socks. The beige man encountered a man with a colorful sock and an affinity for cowbell.  He told the beige man this, “There are two types of people in this world. Those people who are content to blend in. These people…