The elderly Christian man was very faithful to His Lord and a devoted member of the local congregation of the Lord’s church.  He also endeavored to be a good neighbor and have a positive influence on those around him.  For several years, he lived in a retirement community, where a Jewish couple lived right next door.  Over the years, this elderly Christian…

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…

When I was a young preacher, I had an important lesson to learn about people responding to my teaching and preaching. In those years, I tended to measure the impact of my efforts by the numbers who responded immediately. I failed to see the many different ways the Bible describes how individuals respond when they are taught. In the parable of the…

Some of us may look at ourselves and think, “What good am I to God?”  Some of us may look around at others who are so very skilled and think, “I will never be able to make as much of a difference as that person!  I’ll never be as good as them!  What good am I to God?”  Some of us may…

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…

In our day of modern warfare, when a skilled sniper can kill an enemy from two miles away, we tend to forget in Bible times how devastating a skilled marksman could be with nothing more than his bow and quill filled with arrows. An unexpected volley of arrows from a troop of warriors could bring immediate death when it arrived. One event…

If you do not know, where do you think the following verse would be found in the Bible?  “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil.”  It would make sense for that particular verse to be in a letter written to Christians in the immoral city of Corinth, but that’s not where this verse is found.  (Although there is a verse…

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…