For decades, crusades have been conducted around the world, and thousands have responded to give their lives to Jesus. Conscious of their sins, they are told to simply say the “sinner’s prayer.” Of even greater impact is the preaching by televangelists and church pastors who tell those who are lost that if they will say this sinner’s prayer, God will immediately forgive…

In a recent religious blog, the author (a prominent member of a large denomination himself) reviewed what he called “Contemporary Trends in Church Names.”  Space will not allow a listing of all the common church names that he found but notice what is making the top of the list today: “Point” has become ubiquitous: LifePoint; CrossPoint. Add an “e” to be fancy:…

Life has a way of teaching us. One of the lessons I learned as a teenager involved a rusty metal box. My brother and I were cleaning a yard and preparing it to be sodded. We kept kicking around this old metal box that looked like an Altoid box. The guy we were working for eventually saw it, picked it up and…

If you talk to religious people much, it will likely not be long until they say to you, “I believe the world is about to come to an end, look at all the signs.” Televangelists and pastors are making thousands of dollars selling their books which lead their followers to believe the end is near. It is ironic that this profiteering has…

In the days of the early church, opportunities presented themselves to the brethren to serve and to be an active part of the church.  How do you think some of them responded? We do not have a listing of how every Christian responded to those opportunities, but we do have a record of how some responded.  In Acts 4, there was a…

People do some things in the Bible that leave you wondering why. On one such occasion, the Egyptians were two plagues into a ten-plague stretch. Frogs were everywhere, and there was no escaping them. When the time had come, Moses appeared before the pharaoh and said, “The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants…

Eve looked at that beautiful, forbidden fruit and made a decision. There was no way she could begin to visualize how that one decision would change the history of the world. The choice made that day has impacted the lives of every one of the billions and billions of people who have lived on this earth. It impacts the lives of each…

Sometimes a doctor will say to a patient, “We caught this in the early stages.  We can treat this, and you’ll have a full recovery.”  But other times a doctor will have to say, “I’m sorry.  But this is too advanced and there’s very little we can do right now.  If only we had caught it earlier!” Unfortunately, there is a strong…