The topic of hate generates all sorts of thoughts and emotions.  Unfortunately, we are living in a culture right now that is engulfed in bitter, bitter hatred.  And, as much as some might try to rationalize their hatred for certain individuals, there is nothing rational about people hating people. How is a Christian to live in this kind of environment?  Too often…

This question may not matter to you. I believe we are at liberty to choose within the options the Bible provides. What is your image of Jesus? There are a lot of artists who have depicted Him. The images have taken on the aspects of the particular culture in which they were created. Most of them have an eye pleasing, peaceful, angelic…

“No one can understand the Bible; it is just too hard for me to know what God is saying.” These words express the hearts of many, but are they true? Peter said that in parts of the Bible there are “…some things hard to be understood” (2 Pet. 3:16), but he does not say that even the hard things are impossible to…

At some point in our lifetimes, we have all said things that perhaps we didn’t really mean.  We had, in all likelihood, good intentions by what we were saying, but the follow-through was lacking. Unfortunately, too often this has happened with the biggest verbal statements of people’s lives.  Before someone is baptized into Jesus Christ, he/she makes a verbal confession of faith—“I…

This is not the justification you are looking for. Most people think of justification for their action whether good or bad. The Bible talks about it in a different way. “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we…

The most commonly given answer to the question about salvation is, “If you want to be saved then just say the sinner’s prayer.” That prayer was unknown in the first century. It was unknown in the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth and for fifteen centuries after Jesus started the church. I am amazed how some individuals respond when they are…

I am convinced that there is a hymn to meet every need and challenge you face in life.  Perhaps the following account (which I heard Brother Wendell Winkler share several years ago) helps to establish that point. A preacher presented a lesson on how Christians must commit themselves to serving in the church.  The song leader got up and led the song,…

Christianity is a business, and truth is the product. Not really. At times it’s hard not to think that. So much of religious display in the world appears to be nothing more than a spectacle of franchises, each one peddling the same thing in different ways. You’ve even been urged by the media to “attend the church of your choice,” as if…